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91 [lbo-talk] Jesus' General -- rank: 484

... me.... enjoy!] Dear Sen. Lott, Sen Cochran, and Rep. Pickering [The American Family Association will send separate emails to each of the members of the Mississippi delegation] I saw that Troy movie this weekend, and ... complete with manly brass nipples. They didn't have none of those fancy Kevlar helmets or flack vests like soldiers ...

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Author:	snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
Date:	Tue May 18 11:41:50 PDT 2004

92 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references -- rank: 484

... 9 Jun 2004, Doug Henwood wrote: > Miles Jackson wrote: > > >Reading Lord of the Rings is kinda like reading the Bible (I'm serious!). > >Even if you're not into it, you need to read it to understand the culture > >of our society. > > I've read The Bible. ...

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Author:	Miles Jackson
Date:	Wed Jun 9 11:28:37 PDT 2004

93 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references -- rank: 484

... just likes to use references to things that are part of a particular sub-culture, like gaming, that 90% of the people on the list aren't part of, which is what the metaphors were before. Even if you read LotR, next ...

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Author:	snit snat
Date:	Wed Jun 9 09:47:26 PDT 2004

94 [lbo-talk] Re: Toklien Popularity//Modernization -- rank: 481

... 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:	BklynMagus
Date:	Mon Sep 15 14:31:59 PDT 2003

95 [lbo-talk] "master's tools" (was po-mo prince) -- rank: 472

... found that quote endlessly annoying, since it implies a kind > of political purism which will be hard to achieve in a ... world. Further (and I guess this is just another way of saying the same > thing) it gives the master WAY too much credit by presuming (a) that > "his ... really are his (and not implicitly social, collective); (b) > that the master's tools are so perfectly suited to the master's system > of rule that they are incapable ...

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Author:	Miles Jackson
Date:	Tue Dec 9 09:46:10 PST 2003

96 [lbo-talk] Tolkien and the new medievalism -- rank: 466

... primary beliefs invade secondary worlds, and it means that despite the >beauty and grandeur of >the pageant, to me the film series The Lord of the >Rings stinks like an orc. Can't ...

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Author:	Todd Archer
Date:	Tue Dec 23 11:13:31 PST 2003

97 [lbo-talk] China's the change agent for next 20 yrs: Gates -- rank: 462

China's the change agent for next 20 yrs: Gates REUTERS[ SATURDAY, JANUARY ... emerging powerhouse that will continue to drive down prices in the years ahead as its promotes what Bill Gates described as a brand new form of capitalism. "China is the change agent for these next 20 years, in terms of what's competitive and how things get done," Gates said. "It's the most deflationary thing that ever happened because as you ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Sat Jan 29 10:03:37 PST 2005

98 [lbo-talk] why movies suck -- rank: 456

I'm curious about the criteria Doug & perhaps others are using to gauge quality. I've seen almost all of the movies on the list, and by & large they're reasonably amusing entertainments. Some of them, like the Spider-Man and Lord of the Rings movies, transcend ...

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Author:	Gary Mongiovi
Date:	Tue Nov 17 11:43:08 PST 2009

99 [lbo-talk] MPug Rats Out Yoshie To Cooper -- rank: 450

... her critique, and I agree that there's >a lot of domestic political posturing over Darfur, and that a US military ... would doubtless make matters worse. I think that Yoshie >muddied the waters a bit by using a term like "Establishment Jews ... which >has an awkward if not rancid ring to it. The case against another war is >strong enough. Why employ terms that are guaranteed to divert attention >from the main point? I think the main point was well stated in a Counterpunch column by Gary Leupp today, viz.: "Throughout the country, the pious-sounding campaign on behalf of Darfur ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Wed May 3 07:41:30 PDT 2006

100 [lbo-talk] Now, even Hollywood's outsourcing to India -- rank: 441

... animation work from Indian studios in a big way, says the producer of the blockbuster "Lord Of The Rings". Barrie M. Osborne, who also produced "The Matrix", ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Sun Apr 3 08:58:47 PDT 2005

101 [lbo-talk] Tolkien and the new medievalism -- rank: 441

... http://www.cas.usf.edu/communication/rodman/cultstud/> > > In light of the discussion on the discussion of Lord of the Rings I > thought some of you might find ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Tue Dec 23 09:08:31 PST 2003

102 Buffy -- rank: 438

Carrol Cox wrote: > But, it runs afoul of a literary principle I worked out decades ago > while reading the *Lord of the Rings* and Milton's epics.. All conscious > beings are either ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Feb 22 09:54:00 PST 1999

103 [lbo-talk] Re: Chalabi -- rank: 435

... s convinced Saddam is alive, wandering around an arc to the > north and west of Baghdad, and in control of his weapons. ("Saddam > Hussein and the weapons of mass destruction are one and the same.") Is that really what he said? It sounds ...

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Author:	Jonathan Schwarz
Date:	Tue Jun 10 12:01:42 PDT 2003

104 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 435

... 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:	Miles Jackson
Date:	Mon Sep 15 16:25:25 PDT 2003

105 [lbo-talk] More on why movies suck -- rank: 425

... talk] More on why movies suck Anyone can see that Lord of the Rings is a Heideggero-Facistic metaphor, the They of the Orcs, the lost authenticity of the Shire, the ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Nov 20 07:27:49 PST 2009