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106 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

107 Fwd: Detailed review of Nike court decision -- rank: 694

From: "J. Ballinger" <jeffreyd at mindspring.com> Subject: Detailed review of Nike court decision Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 18:11 ... can be sued over its corporate policy statements Mike McKee The Recorder May 3, 2002 In a ruling that's sure to send a chill wind down Madison Avenue, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that companies can be sued ... campaigns. Voting 4-3 in a case involving Nike Inc., the justices, relying on U.S. Supreme Court case law, said statements by the Oregon-based shoemaker denying allegations that some overseas factories are sweatshops were a form of commercial speech not protected by the First Amendment. "Because ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 3 20:45:34 PDT 2002

108 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

109 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

110 Fwd: Betty Bowers' State of the Union -- rank: 805

... Best_Christian at lb.bcentral.com> >Subject: Betty Bowers' State of the Union > >This newsletter can be accessed online at >http://www ... and Real Americans: > >Well, I watched President Bush's State of the Union address last night. >Our nation is at war, our economy is in recession and the civilized world >faces unprecedented dangers! No wonder the President's niece Noelle was in >such a rush ...

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Author:	mongoH at earthlink.net
Date:	Wed Jan 30 12:33:24 PST 2002

111 Life and Debt -- rank: 333

... and Debt I just saw this last week at one of our local independent theaters, and can't recommend it highly enough. If as many people from, say, the U.S. and Euroland saw this film in the next three months as saw Lord of the Rings - well, who's to say what might be ...

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Author:	/ dave /
Date:	Fri Jan 25 11:14:00 PST 2002

112 politics of lord of rings -- rank: 685

... at nationalpost.com> >Right-wing thinkers and publishers, who introduced the Italian public to the >fantasy classic in the 1970s, see the 1,000-page tome by Britain's J.R.R. >Tolkien as a celebration of their own values of physical strength, >leadership and integrity. IIRC, Tolkien was hardly ...

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Author:	Scott Martens
Date:	Fri Jan 18 12:53:44 PST 2002

113 politics of lord of rings -- rank: 1000

Here's an article about how the far right -- neo-fascists, really -- in Italy have appropriated Tolkien ... A while back, someone send in some links to discussions of the politics of Lord of the Rings. Does anyone still have those links? Thanks, ...

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Author:	Heer, Jeet
Date:	Fri Jan 18 12:29:02 PST 2002

114 A good year for Japanese cinema -- rank: 768

Any discussion of this year's landmarks in Japanese cinema would have to include Miyazaki Hayao's 'Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi' (the title in English is going to be 'Spirited Away', which misses a lot of the meaning of the Japanese title, 'Sen and Chihiro's Mysterious Abduction by ...

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Author:	Charles Jannuzi
Date:	Sun Dec 30 20:40:05 PST 2001

115 Lord of the Rings:A Libertarian Fable or Fascist Agit-Prop? -- rank: 811

... wrote: > I would never have dreamed that a movie about "Lord of > the Rings" could be done so well. Haven't seen the flick, but Tolkien is sort of the godfather of Brit postmodernism, i.e. the text ...

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Author:	Dennis Robert Redmond
Date:	Thu Dec 27 13:54:31 PST 2001

116 Lord of the Rings:A Libertarian Fable or Fascist Agit-Prop? -- rank: 820

I would never have dreamed that a movie about "Lord of the Rings" could be done so well. The first 30 minutes or so were a bit slow but then it was wonderful. "Fascist agit-prop"? Hardly! The movie looks at power...and shows how difficult it ...

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Author:	Thomas Seay
Date:	Thu Dec 27 11:21:12 PST 2001

117 Lord of the Rings:A Libertarian Fable or Fascist Agit-Prop? -- rank: 675

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/msg11837.html All messages from thread "Tolkien Health Warning" Message 1 in thread From: Alex Nichols (xnichols at hotmail.com) Subject: Tolkien Health Warning Newsgroups: alt.politics.socialism.trotsky http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=alt.politics ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Dec 26 23:10:40 PST 2001

118 MJ -- rank: 305

... Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Doug Henwood wrote: > Michael Jackson over the years: > <http://www.doneanddusted.co.uk/nick/Movie2.html>. AAAIIGGHH... the horror, the horror. That inflicted almost as much retinal damage as those ghastly ads for the Lord of the Rings. The one and true MJ remains <http:// ...

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Author:	Dennis Robert Redmond
Date:	Sun Dec 2 16:20:44 PST 2001

119 Hitch, Hooks, and Stone -- rank: 672

... Relevant > > by Rebecca Traister, Elisabeth Franck and Ian Blecher > > On the morning of Saturday, Oct. 6,a group of filmmakers, > Hollywood executives and writers left little doubt that the age > of irony should not be laid to rest just yet. > > The panelists took part in a discussion called >“Making Movies > ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Thu Oct 11 19:27:48 PDT 2001

120 Bullshit On Evil -- rank: 753

(The Post is Canada's voice of the "respectable" right-wing. Todd) We are all hobbits now A ... R.R. Tolkien's world is a perfect metaphor for the situation at hand Patricia Pearson National Post Hollywood, as we have heard, has been frantically airbrushing images of the World Trade Center out of its movie trailers and hastily reviewing all scripts. Bombs ...

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Author:	Todd Archer
Date:	Fri Sep 28 11:16:43 PDT 2001