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fill the void: the voidoid zone
Just another week in the Middle East. The U.S. is now hedging its bets on the Syrian Free Army, simply a little too wily and wooly and seem to be looking for strategic alternatives by splitting hairs between classifying moderate … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Pipes, Fill the Void Rama Burshtein, Free Syrian Army, Gary Cooper, Gustav Klimt, Kathy Evans, Lipa Schmeltzer, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mahmoud abbas, Mohamad Morsi, Mursi Egypt, Nadim Shehadi, Omer Shatz We Are Refugees, robert fisk, Said K. Aburish, Salam Fayyad Palestinian Authority, Salman Rushdie, Syria Crisis Bashar Assad, thomas friedman
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those dodgy heretics: mystic encounters of the third kind
The heretics who dodged the inconvenient texts of Scripture by allegory and symbolism relied ultimately on mysticism. Not all mystics of course were heretics; it seemed to depend on which texts they dodged. But the basic theory of mysticism was … Continue reading
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Tagged Alumbrados, Alumbrados burned in Catholic Spain, Bohemian Adamites, Christian Messianism, Christian mysticism, Christian mystics, English Ranters, French Libertines, Gary Cooper, harpo marx, jack benny, Matthew Fox, Pietists persecuted, Quakerism, Sandro Botticelli, The Ranters, The Zohar, Theodore Roszak
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top bananas: the wild bunch
Entertainment is ideology. Whether it was Gary Cooper in High Noon or the Marx Brothers Go West, the white man was conceiving and furthering his own myth. The frontier mentality. The New World. These cultural myths usually encapsulate the dominant … Continue reading
gunsmoke and the mythological west
Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) James Arness (1923-2011). It’s funny how a man who starred in something that aired before I was born, was a staple on television through my childhood and early teen years—and … Continue reading
HORSE OPERA: TIME TO CIRCLE THE WAGONS?
“With the stakes raised so high, the heroes of such dramas are indeed often superheroic, near divinities. One man can outduel five others in a shoot-out (as in the Achilles and Patroclus ending of Unforgiven [dir. Clint Eastwood, 1992] or the final gunfight … Continue reading
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Tagged André Bazin, Andrew Samuels, Carl Jung, Clint Eastwood, Corneille, David Brooks, Freud, Gary Cooper, Howard Hawks, James Madison, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Ford, John Wayne, Ken Salazar, Luiga Zoja, Martha Wolfenstein, Michael Vanoy Adams, Nathan Leites, Paul Krugman, Robert B. Pipppin, Robert Pippin, Robert Warshow, Sam Peckinpah, Samuel L. Kimbles, Sarah Palin, Thomas Singer
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GUNSMOKE BONANZA: BALLOT BOX AT HIGH NOON
What are westerns all about? As the gunsmoke clears from the main streets of those frontier towns, there is always a persistent political theme. … Where is the best place to hide a leaf? asked G. K. Chesterton’s fictional detective, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Bill Clinton, Burt Lancaster, Carl Jung, Charles Portis, Clint Eastwood, Dennis Hopper, G.K. Chesterton, Gary Cooper, Glen Campbell, Harry Schein, Harry Wilmer, Henry Fonda, John Ford, John Ronson guardian, John Wayne, Kim Darby, Kirk Douglas, Lech Walesa, Lee Van Cleef, Machiavelli, Martha Wolfenstein, Michael Vanoy Adams, Nathan Leites, Robert Pippin, Sam Hellman, Samuel G. Engel, Stuart N. Lake, Tea Party, Tim Dirks, Tomasz Sarnecki, Victor Mature, Winston Miller, Wyatt Earp
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