Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
10-29-2007, 02:44 PM
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Replies: 72
Views: 423
Re: Michael Clayton
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre> Sometimes just the name doesn't help generate a good start. Michael Clayton sounds like some English gentleman affair to the average moviegoer. OTOH, I'll...
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
10-13-2007, 03:18 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 616
Re: Your favorite poem and why
Here's a Poem by the translator of Hikmet's poem--in case you're interested.
Visionary Company
Last night when our son said, "The two of you
are beautiful," I knew he wasn't falling
for...
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
10-13-2007, 03:07 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 616
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
10-13-2007, 03:00 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 616
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
10-11-2007, 11:32 PM
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Replies: 48
Views: 172
Re: Does selfishness ever bother you?
My own selfishness bothers me more than it does in others.
"People do not feel in any way ashamed or guilty about spending money on new clothes or a new car instead of giving it to famine...
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
10-11-2007, 11:21 PM
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Replies: 113
Views: 435
Re: Play us an old song for the first time
I have always loved Ella's version, but my favorite is by Susannah McCorkle whose version is all the more poignant given the circumstances of her death about six years ago.
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
10-11-2007, 10:43 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 616
Re: Your favorite poem and why
George Herbert's wonderful sonnet:
The Answer
My comforts drop and melt away like snow:
I shake my head, and all the thoughts and ends,
Which my fierce youth did bandie, fall...
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
10-10-2007, 12:11 AM
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Replies: 113
Views: 435
Re: Play us an old song for the first time
A couple from Youtube
Ralph McTell (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th3Y6nTaJAc&mode=related&search=)
John Prine and Nanci Griffith (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAfwiOxaRbk)
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
10-07-2007, 12:39 PM
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Replies: 113
Views: 435
Re: Play us an old song for the first time
Rick, okay "My, your tastes are changing." Saw The Ramones at Lupo's, btw. And we also saw Bonnie Raitt in Newport one night; might have been all of sixty people there.
And, hell, I'm just...
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
10-07-2007, 12:29 PM
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Replies: 113
Views: 435
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
10-07-2007, 12:02 AM
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Replies: 113
Views: 435
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
10-06-2007, 11:51 PM
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Replies: 44
Views: 224
Re: \"Lost\" Albums
Until I checked on Amazon, I didn't realize that so many people would remember Audience (http://www.amazon.com/House-Hill-Audience/dp/B000000HZN/ref=pd_sim_m_2/104-1988919-8309548) . Released in...
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
10-06-2007, 11:27 PM
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Replies: 44
Views: 224
Re: \"Lost\" Albums
Abbey Lincoln's Straight Ahead, featuring Max Roach, Coleman Hawkins, and Eric Dolphy is simply superb. I have this one on vinyl tucked away somewhere. Highlights include "When Malindy Sings" and...
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
10-02-2007, 02:34 PM
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Replies: 211
Views: 1,956
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
10-02-2007, 02:08 PM
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Replies: 63
Views: 291
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
10-01-2007, 05:05 PM
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Replies: 338
Views: 1,302
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
10-01-2007, 05:03 PM
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Replies: 91
Views: 369
Re: Best films about drug use and addiction?
Oh, Blarg, Louis Cypher says a line that's right out of Oedipus: "How terrible is knowledge when it brings no profit to the wise." Both Oedipus and Harry Angel are searching for someone they find...
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
09-29-2007, 08:46 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 320
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
09-29-2007, 08:39 PM
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Replies: 91
Views: 369
Re: Best films about drug use and addiction?
Drugstore Cowboy at least has William Burroughs going for it. Loved The Man with the Golden Arm, another Code-challenging film from Otto Preminger, severely underrated today, I think.
One aside:...
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
09-29-2007, 08:28 PM
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Replies: 91
Views: 369
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
09-19-2007, 11:04 AM
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Replies: 97
Views: 314
Re: Wal-Mart
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To make more money, the capitalist must make his labor more productive. He does this either by investing in training or investing in capital equipment, tools and machinery.
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Forum: Student Life
09-19-2007, 10:29 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 103
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Forum: Student Life
09-18-2007, 03:03 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 103
Re: Student Evaluations of Teachers
So you're pretty much urging that students evaluate much along the same lines as they do with Rate My Professors? If so, do you trust the reliability of that site?
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Forum: Student Life
09-18-2007, 02:59 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 96
Re: An awesome way to lengthen papers
Guys, sorry, but we don't really care how long the paper is as long as it close to the specified length. I've never penalized a student for writing too little when the writing is well done. If it's...
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
09-18-2007, 02:36 PM
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Replies: 97
Views: 314
Re: Wal-Mart
Hit me over the head with a sledgehammer. /images/graemlins/blush.gif
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