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61 [lbo-talk] Max on the Internet Left -- rank: 598

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > >Fuck the healing. Oh, I envision a Golden Age of Comity ahead. Just look at the tremendous bipartisan enthusiasm about what a chic dresser Nancy Pelosi is. I will admit that it's easier on the eyes to contemplate Pelosi than, say, the incredible hulk Dennis Hastert, who always looked like some sort of orc from Lord of the Rings, though projecting less ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Wed Jan 17 21:55:40 PST 2007

62 [lbo-talk] "Citizen Kane" leads "Godfather" in movie poll -- rank: 592

... Spiegelman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Citizen Kane," Orson Welles' powerful portrait of an unscrupulous media baron, beat back an assault from "The Godfather," on Wednesday to retain its title as the greatest American film. Film critics, historians and experts voted "Kane" as the top U.S. film for the second time in a decade in a poll conducted by the American Film Institute. The results were revealed in a ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 22 13:39:26 PDT 2007

63 [lbo-talk] Golden age of satire? -- rank: 586

... AM Eastern Standard Time, >carlremick at hotmail.com writes: >>... While the movie leaves the illusion that it ridicules all sides >>equally, >>this is not the case. Just to recount the targets of ridicule here: anyone >>or anything that can be considered gay, and foreigners of any kind. By the >>conclusion, Hollywood liberals who criticize ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Sat Oct 16 10:16:56 PDT 2004

64 [lbo-talk] why movies suck -- rank: 586

... tickets than Hollywood, but ticket prices are much higher in the US. Adjust by numbers of tickets, and the picture looks a bit less sucky. (2) The Lord of the Rings trilogy is an aesthetic masterpiece. "Finding Nemo" ...

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Tue Nov 17 12:53:24 PST 2009

65 [lbo-talk] release from mordor, please? -- rank: 583

budge wrote: [could you please lose the orcing html -- thanks] ====== Que? All of my messages - outgoing - are 100 percent, grade A certified plain ... this unholy format between me and thee. ...and later, in the same post, regarding the perfidy of LotR fandom on LBO... it is so cloyingly offensive. it ... is annoying. and it crops up on LBO all out of proportion with any other place in my life so ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Wed Jun 9 16:33:26 PDT 2004

66 [lbo-talk] Ronnie's very timely death -- rank: 583

... 34 PM, R wrote: > ron was a master at conveying the B movie hollywood ending; he > convinced > americans tired of dealing with grown up problems that things were just > fine ... perfect, and they could all go back to sleep because > the > good hands people were in charge of their destiny. talk about a > retreat > into childhood -- not to mention senility. For the whole eight long -- looooooong -- years of his reign, I was constantly mystified by the adulation ...

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Author:	Jon Johanning
Date:	Thu Jun 10 21:20:34 PDT 2004

67 [lbo-talk] A Day When Mahdi Army Showed Its Other Side -- rank: 574

... Boddi - kinda, sorta, mostly. As someone who's actually read the Qur'an (Abdullah Yusuf Ali's trans. -- it's not as long as the New Tesstment), and studied the theology a bit (weird phase of my life; don't ask), I, like many WASPs, was ... to Christianity. On paper, at least. What Boddi says about the Second Coming of Jesus (Isa in Arabic) and the End Days in ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 27 17:05:40 PST 2006

68 [lbo-talk] New Zealand, most business-friendly nation -- rank: 570

[I was surprised to learn this. Then again, since Lord of the Rings was one of the most stupendously boring film sagas of all time, maybe ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Tue Sep 13 06:14:50 PDT 2005

69 GrrRl & Politically Purchasing Power -- rank: 558

Max wrote: >I'd say your post goes to the difference >between boycott as politics and boycott as >lifestyle. Boycotts are only meaningful >politically when they reflect some kind >of mobilized constituency. Boycotts in >terms of some global catalog of good and >bad business firms is more like a personal ... as it goes >but not to be confused with politics. The >personal is not political. Yes, a good point. One that ... Mike's orig. post I do wonder why you make the distinction between ethical and political. Aren't normative claims ...

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Author:	K
Date:	Mon Oct 19 14:14:21 PDT 1998

70 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 558

... Brad DeLong wrote: > >> >one thing not mentioned in this discussion of THE LORD OF THE RINGS >> >is that the bad guys in Tolkein all seem ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Mon Sep 15 17:09:46 PDT 2003

71 [lbo-talk] kids today -- rank: 552

I read "Steal This Book" in high school in the early '70s, but I only knew one other student who ... also read it - and he stole it from me. On the other hand, just about everyone was reading, or had read, "The Lord of The Rings". If the Harry Potter and Meyer series had ...

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Author:	Mark Bennett
Date:	Fri Mar 6 16:00:06 PST 2009

72 [lbo-talk] Jesus didn't exist.... -- rank: 549

... s silly to debate religion. I've had political comrades of >>innumerable religious convictions, including fundamentalism. And I've >>known many ... see >Catholics, Unitarians, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Lutherans -- well, any >_denominational_ community of faith as deserving of the right to call >themselves Christian. When the rapture comes, Carl (CGE) will not, on their >view, rise in his nekkid glory into the cloudy blue sky to sit near the >right had ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Sat Nov 6 07:22:55 PST 2004

73 [lbo-talk] Re: USA 2003 -- rank: 549

... Brad DeLong wrote: > >one thing not mentioned in this discussion of THE LORD OF THE RINGS > >is that the bad guys in Tolkein all seem ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Sep 15 17:55:17 PDT 2003

74 Death Penalty -- rank: 543

... Rosser, Jr. wrote: > Last time I checked, Russia still had the death penalty. I think it > also still qualifies as "an advanced industrial country," sort of. Hmm, I dunno, then you'd have to include Thailand ... as advanced. How about "dependently industrialized countries"? > shows up in the much less widely read _Silmarillion_, published in 1977 > after Tolkien's death with editing by one of his sons, not the more popular > _Lord of the Rings_. Tolkien does a plain-out steal ...

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Author:	Dennis R Redmond
Date:	Thu Mar 4 15:51:02 PST 1999

75 [lbo-talk] kids today -- rank: 521

... wrote: > > I read "Steal This Book" in high school in the early '70s, but I only > knew > > one other student who ... also read it - and he stole it from me. On the > other > > hand, just about everyone was reading, or had read, "The Lord of The > > Rings". If the Harry Potter and Meyer series had ...

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Author:	Mark Bennett
Date:	Sat Mar 7 08:54:07 PST 2009