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The Seduction of Joe Tynan
1979 · Film · 108 min
Directed by Jerry Schatzberg
Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well as further straining his already part-time family life. But it could be a big boost to his career, so he takes it on. Helping him prepare the case is pretty southern researcher Karen Traynor, and their developing relationship further complicates and compromises his life.
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VR is strange because it's already culturally successful. I would point to the ideas from the circa-1980 books
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22617.Seduction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
and then how there was a craze for it in the early 1990s (like this failed TV show)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR.5
then there was The Matrix and by the time Sword Art Online: Ready Player One came out people were taking it for granted.
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