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Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult…. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And when they become discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontentment led nowhere, because being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.
– George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
It's an old western with Lee Marvin, really a wonderful movie about a cowboy who looses everything but maintains his center, his calm and his kindness. It seems to be about the end of the Wild West. There's a fantastic and long riding scene in which the cowboy named Monte "rides the grey down". Humorous too. I liked it. My mom complains that it was slow. She already deleted it from her direct tv.
in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad:
From the land beyond, beyond
From the world past hope and fear
I bid you Geni, now appear..
--Ray Harryhausen ?
(thanks to ML)
Went to see this 2009 Canadian film, set in Cairo. It is a romance, gorgeous with rich textures and colors. The story is of an American woman left adrift in the city when her husband is unable to make a rendezvous. Her immersion in the culture there is both uncomfortable and glorious. I won't tell you much more, only that this is a beautiful film, and I highly recommend it. It brought me right back into my heart.
(factoid from The Week 6/4/10 which in turn credits iVillage)
She was born in Russia and immigrated to the US in 1905 at the age of 21. She wrote a bunch of interesting books in her time. I discovered Ayn Rand when I was in college in the 1980's. I read a pile of her books, and passed them on to my friends. The Fountainhead was the first that I read, followed by Atlas Shrugged and then plodding on through a few more before I burned out. In these novels she began to develop Objectivism, her very own philosophy. She became quite famous later in life and was associated with Alan Greenspan and a host of other intellectuals.
( more about Rand, Objectivism, and a little current eventsCollapse )
( a few more favorite quotes from the Star Wars character YodaCollapse )
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