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76 [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

77 [lbo-talk] Pop Phrophets Profit -- rank: 734

Speaking of the religious right, is anyone else suspicious about the way the gay marriage thing is going in Mass? I saw the Mass governor gloating over the fact that the SC wasn't going to intervene ...

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Author:	snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
Date:	Sun May 16 07:52:27 PDT 2004

78 [lbo-talk] Soft on the Empire -- rank: 833

I hear that Gibson's film is soft on the empire and tough on the "mob" and the national elite. It's a fitting blockbuster for the New American Century. ***** 'Passion' Enjoys Blockbuster Bow Thu Feb 26 ... By Brian Fuson LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" grossed an estimated $15 million-$20 million ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Feb 26 09:30:25 PST 2004

79 [lbo-talk] Jesus Christ! I just saw The Passion . . . -- rank: 728

... as much as could have been expected for a dramatization of a Roman scourging and crucifixion. It is also about as anti-Semitic as the Gospel of John, which is to say, it is anti-Semitic in that way that only the very ur-text of anti-Semitism can be. Every despicable trope of classic Jew-hatred is here, including a sensitive Pontius ...

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Author:	John Lacny
Date:	Thu Feb 26 06:18:06 PST 2004

80 [lbo-talk] His Dark Materials -- rank: 685

***** The New York Times January 25, 2004 Staging the Next Fantasy Blockbuster By SARAH LYALL LONDON The unassuming man at the end of the eighth row slipped quietly from his seat during the final applause for the sold-out performance of "His ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Jan 31 07:31:14 PST 2004

81 [lbo-talk] Fog'O'War Follies -- rank: 790

... no more unlikely movie star this season than Robert McNamara, the only living character in Errol Morris's documentary "The Fog of War." The 87-year-old Mr. McNamara who, as the Washington Post film critic Stephen Hunter pointed out, is a dead ringer for Gollum in "Lord of the Rings" has been as surprised as anyone ...

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Author:	John Adams
Date:	Sun Jan 25 08:40:22 PST 2004

82 [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

83 [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

84 [lbo-talk] Tolkien and the new medievalism -- rank: 425

... 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:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 23 08:35:21 PST 2003

85 [lbo-talk] How an anarchist came to run the Kucinich campaign in Rhode Island -- rank: 740

How an anarchist came to run the Kucinich campaign in Rhode Island Part 1. It seems like ... definition is anti-government working on a presidential campaign. How the hell did that happen? What does that say about me ... without rulers. It is anti-authoritarianism. Generally it stands outside the false dichotomy of corporate authoritarianism vs. governmental authoritarianism the breakdown of modern Republican vs. Democrat or Liberal vs. Conservative debate. ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Thu Dec 18 10:52:04 PST 2003

86 [lbo-talk] Re: this months monster-demon-satan -- rank: 240

... a tv series...ooops, it is! > >but seriously, this kind of breathless belief in whatever we are told is >what makes ... do we live on? have people been >watching too much lord-of-the-rings-matrix stuff? So your point is that SH wasn't ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 17 14:00:36 PST 2003

87 [lbo-talk] Re: this months monster-demon-satan -- rank: 271

... a tv series...ooops, it is! but seriously, this kind of breathless belief in whatever we are told is what makes ... do we live on? have people been watching too much lord-of-the-rings-matrix stuff? and what is "perfect justice"? something exercised by "perfect" people? if this were cuba, the batista regime would still be in power. fs

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Author:	frank scott
Date:	Wed Dec 17 13:54:03 PST 2003

88 [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

89 [lbo-talk] Re: Film Notes -- rank: 827

... 1) When I first joined there was a discussion about The Lord of the Rings films. On January 11, 2004 they will all be playing at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. The Director's Cut of the first two will be ...

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Author:	BklynMagus
Date:	Tue Oct 21 10:09:57 PDT 2003

90 [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