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46 NY Times: Norman Brown, Playful Philosopher, 89, Is Dead -- rank: 672

... at an assisted-living residence. Dr. Brown was a master of philosophical speculation, mixing Marx, Freud, Jesus and much else to raise and answer immense questions. Alan Watts, the popular philosopher, sang his praises. His works joined David Riesman's ``Lonely Crowd'' and J.R.R. Tolkien's ``Lord of the Rings'' on the reading lists of undergraduates aspiring to the ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Fri Oct 4 06:30:21 PDT 2002

47 [lbo-talk] WGA Parodies the Bosses and the Bosses are really, really, really upset -- rank: 666

... like bullet point 2. But if you want to know the background to it see my last (too long) post in the "Joss Whedon, Union Militant" thread. You can find the letter that this is a parody of, quoted and connected to in that post. So this is from a parody website that the AMPTP was very upset about and wrote a letter to the public complaining about. (If it weren't for the ...

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Author:	Jerry Monaco
Date:	Thu Dec 13 16:02:06 PST 2007

48 [lbo-talk] vaca reading -- rank: 666

Somebody Somebody CB: But the European ideology of conquest based on their Greco-Roman heritage and values of conquest ( U know Alexander was Great at what ? Conqueriing, no ? Same with Caesar, Julius and Augustus both) was the historical cause of the way the Europeans responded to the population loss due ...

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Date:	Tue May 10 08:52:08 PDT 2011

49 [lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger -- rank: 654

... t banal onscurantism > and nothing will persuade you otherwise. In the > circumstances, the thing to do is to ignore the old > Nazis and quietly think less of those of who think he > might have something to offer. To reframe something I wrote off-list.... The authoritarian Volk or Hobbits and Heidegger: My problem with ...

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Author:	Jerry Monaco
Date:	Sun May 14 05:42:06 PDT 2006

50 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 648

... 2009 at 10:31:16AM +1100, Mike Beggs wrote: > Speaking of blowing things up, auteurs, and films related to Peter > Jackson, did anyone see District 9? Definitely the best sci-fi and > action film of the year, and it was both non-Hollywood and had a lot > of things blow up. Also speaking of Peter Jackson, the whole "series, sequels and remakes" complaint ...

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Author:	Gar Lipow
Date:	Thu Nov 19 23:15:03 PST 2009

51 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 648

... From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of Gar Lipow Sent: Fri 20/11/2009 18:15 To ... 2009 at 10:31:16AM +1100, Mike Beggs wrote: > Speaking of blowing things up, auteurs, and films related to Peter > Jackson, did anyone see District 9? Definitely the best sci-fi and > action film of the year, and it was both non-Hollywood and had a lot > of things blow up. Also speaking of Peter Jackson, the ...

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Author:	Catherine Driscoll
Date:	Thu Nov 19 23:30:56 PST 2009

52 [lbo-talk] "great" "conservative" movies -- rank: 648

... www.thesamedame.com/2009/02/national-review-movie-geniuses.html> The National Review = Movie Geniuses Film Criticism has reached its pinnacle in the form of The National Review's "Best Conservative Movies of the last 25 Years." Batman isn't Bruce Wayne, but ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 13 09:57:46 PST 2009

53 Twinkling -- rank: 645

bartelbyvqf at cs.com wrote: > Well my criticism isn’t of one person and is not based upon reading the Post over someone’s shoulder on the subway. I have attended hundreds perhaps over a thousand hours of meetings run in this way. > All majority white meetings incidentally. White youth from Austin are more comfortable in the consensus meeting in Boston than are the people of color activists let alone non-or as ...

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Author:	Chuck Munson
Date:	Wed Feb 13 22:59:38 PST 2002

54 Japanese animated feature wins Golden Bear at Berlin -- rank: 635

I'm not sure of Miyazaki Hayao's politics, but I do know he (like ... but then there are 'deep ecologists' as far out as the nazis). Although often ironic and satirical in attitude, he seems to have an almost old-fashioned sense of warmth and humanity usually lacking in Lynch or Greenaway (these ... arguable whether or not Lynch or Greenaway really have much of a narrative gift). It's quite interesting that, at first, Miyazaki was not interested in making 'Spirited Away', the first scenario for which is derived from a popular book of adolescent fiction. But apparently a younger woman who works ...

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Author:	Charles Jannuzi
Date:	Sat Mar 2 21:32:07 PST 2002

55 [lbo-talk] Hollywood buys rights to Russian blockbuster -- rank: 632

The Independent (UK) August 21, 2004 Hollywood gets its claws into ... Michael Mainville in Moscow A supernatural thriller featuring an army of evil bloodsuckers has broken box-office records in Russia this summer and now Hollywood wants a piece of the action. Night Watch, or Nochnoi Dozor, has earned more than £8m at the box office since opening on 8 July, becoming the country's first homegrown blockbuster. It has earned five ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Aug 22 01:41:42 PDT 2004

56 [lbo-talk] Mrs Dennis -- rank: 632

[pic at original - gotta hand it to the little guy...] <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world ... with lurve Sarah Baxter, Washington AN Essex girl may be the first lady with a tongue stud to have set her sights on the White House. The wife of Dennis Kucinich, a left- wing Democratic congressman and 2008 presidential ... is a 29- year-old hippie chick from Upminster at the end of London Underground s District line. Elizabeth Kucinich, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 21 14:00:50 PDT 2007

57 [lbo-talk] A History of Violence -- rank: 617

Michael wrote: > > I'd say then that The Searchers was the beginning of the end. > Thriller, > > Film Noir, Sci-fi, Horror, Action, etc. have survived the civil > rights > > movement and the sexual revolution better than the Western did. > > I'd ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Nov 16 17:15:01 PST 2005

58 [lbo-talk] the Vatican's top 10 list -- rank: 617

<http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/02/15/the-beatles-michael-jackson-and-u2-make-vatican-newspapers-list-of-best-albums-bob-dylan-snubbed/ > The Beatles, Michael Jackson, and U2 Make Vatican Newspaper s List of Best Albums; Bob Dylan Snubbed The Beatles, Oasis, Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson and U2 may be ... But Bob Dylan is still Knockin on Heaven s Door. The Vatican has previously denounced rock music as the devil ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 15 18:29:49 PST 2010

59 [lbo-talk] Narnia -- rank: 617

Of course it is supposed to be a Christian allegory. But the Christians don't have a monopoly on the elements of the story. I have no objection to expressly Christian writing. There ... DW Robertson, or one his acolytes was right, Shakespeare (er, Lord Bacon, Baron Verulam, or maybe the Earl of Oxford), ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue Dec 20 07:38:19 PST 2005

60 Death Penalty -- rank: 598

Last time I checked, Russia still had the death penalty. I think it also still qualifies as "an advanced industrial country," sort of. I think Ukraine might have it also, similarly sort of qualifying, and maybe Belarus also, with the authoritarian Lukashenka in charge. Since this is my third post of the day I'll combine another issue on here, namely ...

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Author:	J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Date:	Thu Mar 4 12:58:25 PST 1999