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...Java Head: has a passing resemblance to E.T. (48 years later), the story of a strange and gifted creature who shocks on first glance, wins over the kid sister, is rejected for looking different and escapes to another land (a distant planet for E.T., death for Taou Yuen). The movie also is mildly progressive and provocative in positing a saintly Asian destroyed by ignorant Europeans. (Possible caveat: the villain, Nellie's brother, is a white man tainted by the Yellow Peril - opium.) But its most interesting subtext is the Code of the Kiss. In movies of the day, the hero...
...invade Iraq); a man who was "in charge" of postwar "planning" for our invasion of Iraq; a man who oversaw the Office of Special Plans, which hyped evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; a man whom General Tommy Franks once called "the dumbest f______ guy on the planet." To be sure, much of the neocon dream team survives at the Pentagon, but friends of Rumsfeld have noted that he is less enchanted with that crowd than he once was. The fact that the Weekly Standard, the prime neocon media outlet, slags Rumsfeld just about every week...
...species that could contrive to get up, out and beyond it. Indeed, the birth of our modern "whole earth" consciousness can be traced to a single act of exploration: Apollo 8's circumnavigation of the moon and the astonishing photo--Earthrise, that vision of a little blue planet--that it sent back...
...species that could contrive to get up, out and beyond it. Indeed, the birth of our modern "whole earth" consciousness can be traced to a single act of exploration: Apollo 8's circumnavigation of the moon and the astonishing photo--Earthrise, that vision of a little blue planet--that it sent back...
...BELIEVE GOD IS A WOMAN? I think God is more likely to be a woman because women are nurturing and caring and loving. The human male has become the most predatory animal on our planet. It's time that we embrace the feminine face...