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Orlando by Virginia Woolf

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Are you looking for stories that anticipate the future? Well, first of all, ignore science fiction. Back in the mid-1970s, Star Wars might have been the biggest box office hit with its extravagant futurism and cutting edge special effects; but for my money, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1977) did a better job of anticipating American ways and means of …

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