I am a daily lap swimmer, and those pictures touched me.
She pictures touching Georgette with one of her feet, Georgette squalling, Georgette smirking in appreciation of her cleverness for absorbing ephemera like disease names.
Book-ended by DW Griffith's return from Los Angeles to New York in 1919 and the World's Fair two decades later, the season includes work from the likes of Louise Brooks, Rudolph Valentino and the Marx Brothers, as well as little-seen pictures touching on the Jewish and African-American experience of the city.
But AW has turned this simple tale into a work of magical realism that, like his previous pictures, touches on Zen Buddhism, reincarnation and the meaning of life, while at the same time treating with a certain obliquity the violent recent history and modernisation of his country.
Whenever they stopped, people swarmed the car, burst into tears, and said, "Thank you, Edie!" They wanted to hug her, take her picture, touch her diamond engagement pin.
A chaplain's hand, extending into the picture, touches Andrew's shoulder.
That city, and everywhere else on the globe where this busy, swift-moving picture touches down, turns into a video-game backdrop once the wheels start spinning.
While the picture touches occasionally on the current economic crisis and problems of downsizing (Pete and Debbie are faced with the possibility of exchanging their fine house for something more modest), This Is 40 is closer to The Philadelphia Story than The Grapes of Wrath when it comes to reflecting a national Depression.
