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76 [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:	socialismorbarbarism
Date:	Fri Mar 6 23:06:32 PST 2009

77 [lbo-talk] Great Conservative Films -- rank: 521

... maybe libertarian, not a bad flick). Nobody has mentioned On the Waterfront. Brazil is really anarchist, brilliant too IMO. I haven't seen the ones mentioned below, or if I have I don't remember them. It seems almost ridiculous to debate the message of Ghostbusters, which I find hysterically funny every time I watch it. But you could say the victory over Vigo in one of them was based on an ocean of love descending ...

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Author:	Max B. Sawicky
Date:	Fri Feb 13 18:05:42 PST 2009

78 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 521

... 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:	Brad DeLong
Date:	Mon Sep 15 20:08:31 PDT 2003

79 [lbo-talk] Queen for a Day: My Gay Makeover -- rank: 515

... my toes, I don't think they want a mouthfull of dead skin and calouses, because I sure as hell wouldn ... t. If they are not yet sucking on my toes, the goal then is to not repulse them at the thought of it. The "beauty industry" probably has less to do with a desire ... time, etc. For centuries, shoes have been a focal point of fashion and how one's feet looked could be ...

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Author:	Hilary Russ
Date:	Tue Jul 15 11:16:25 PDT 2003

80 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references -- rank: 512

Miles Jackson: > Hmm. I consider LOTR one of the most important > works of fiction in the 20th century. It's not just a > goofy dungeons and dragons knockoff; it's really > more of an epic poem. Lord of the Rings is not a Dungeons & Dragons knockoff ...

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Author:	John Lacny
Date:	Wed Jun 9 19:45:12 PDT 2004

81 [lbo-talk] Re: Toklien Popularity//Modernization -- rank: 512

... wanted to make about recent posts. > > a) In my opinion, the popularity of the Lord of the Rings movies has to with 1) the quality of ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Mon Sep 15 14:41:59 PDT 2003

82 [lbo-talk] Ronnie's very timely death -- rank: 509

>From: Jon Johanning <jjohanning at igc.org> > >For the whole eight long -- looooooong -- years of his reign, I was >constantly mystified by the adulation showered on that sucker by (it >seemed) nearly the entire country. It was as though he had cast a spell >(something out of Lord of the Rings?) on everyone. Even those who disagreed > ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Fri Jun 11 06:11:45 PDT 2004

83 [lbo-talk] Golden age of satire? -- rank: 503

... 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:	SergioL652 at aol.com
Date:	Sat Oct 16 08:30:06 PDT 2004

84 [lbo-talk] Hollywood wins copyright suit in China -- rank: 503

... Hollywood movie studios have won a lawsuit in China over the posting of movie clips on the Internet, the Motion Picture Association said on Friday. A unit of Sohu.com Inc., which runs some of China's most popular Web portals, lost a suit ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Wed Feb 7 08:38:57 PST 2007

85 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbitreferences -- rank: 503

Miles Jackson wrote: > > If I wanted an alien to understand the culture > of our society, it's one of the books I'd make her/it/him > read. The Bible is another one. > Some books cease, for the most part, to have any content of their own ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu Jun 10 10:56:23 PDT 2004

86 [lbo-talk] Thanks to the Frey program, I'm going to rich famous and beloved ... -- rank: 499

... info at pulpculture.org> wrote: > I also saw a lot of overlap with these reviews of great books: > http://blog.pulpculture.org/2006/01/15/worst ... book/ There are some maybe intentionally funny ones in there: The Lord of the Rings (1954) Author: J.R.R. Tolkien "The book ...

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Author:	Andy F
Date:	Wed Feb 1 14:18:58 PST 2006

87 [lbo-talk] Re: Blaming the lobby -- rank: 499

Michael Perelman wrote: > > Maybe so, but what about the way that they have picked of congressional representives who > opposed Israel, beginning with Paul Finley and onto the recent electoral defeats of Black > reps. in the South? The point is not that Israel is weak but that ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Mar 26 10:20:51 PST 2006

88 Wagner/Tolkien -- rank: 493

In light of Louis Proyect's message about Wagner's _Der Ring des Niebelungen_, I would note the deep parallels between that tale and the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien, _The Lord of the Rings_, which I am noting once again as ...

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Author:	Rosser Jr, John Barkley
Date:	Sat Dec 12 10:00:20 PST 1998

89 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 487

... at lmu.edu>: > one thing not mentioned in this discussion of THE LORD OF THE RINGS is that > the bad guys in Tolkien all seem ...

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Mon Sep 15 15:09:53 PDT 2003

90 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 487

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:	Devine, James
Date:	Mon Sep 15 13:34:02 PDT 2003