The opening scene of “Abigail’s Party”.

Nothing actually “happens” in this short clip (a woman puts on a record, makes a drink, has a fag) but I think I could write a dozen essays about it. If you weren’t there at the time the furniture, fashion, and even the music probably seems terribly kitsch but to those of us of a certain age it’s like our every memory of the 70s wrapped up in two minutes.

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