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american imperialism is closely surrounded by the peoples of the
american imperialism is in the making
american imperialism is to remove all hindrances and obstacles to the domination of the weaker countries by american capital
american imperialism is closely surrounded by the peoples of the world
american imperialism is to establish india as the chief reactionary base in south
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american imperialism is doing and that it is going to invade iraq
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american imperialism is probably felt by americans as simply spreading the culture
american imperialism is a bolshevik or a dictator
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american imperialism is the preemptive strike policy
american imperialism is imminent by neal sadler the georgia state university signal
american imperialism is not part of the solution
american imperialism is trying to establish all over the
american imperialism is a media website by the history wiz which visually covers the united state’s impearlist involvement in central america
american imperialism is crowing triumphantly over afghanistan
american imperialism is also developing on the military level
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american imperialism is the root cause of terrorism
american imperialism is aiming at many other targets;
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american imperialism is the central other in the film
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american imperialism is his obsession with tv icons such as john travolta and farah fawcett
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american imperialism is symptomatic of the true nature of american dominance of the world
american imperialism is brutal and mad” and “us has the maximum
american imperialism is seen as just an extension of the european phenomenon
american imperialism is needed in order for us to be able to keep out “part in the mission of our race
american imperialism is being aided by all of the capitalist forces which are presently at bay
american imperialism is the bloody foe of the korean people with whom we cannot live under the same sky
american imperialism is no better than spanish
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american imperialism is an excuse for murdering american christian missionaries
american imperialism is that we believed we were bringing our democracy and freedom to others
american imperialism is accomplishing is the moral and social ruin of the puerto rican people even though some sectors refuse to fall into the abyss
american imperialism is really just a ploy for votes
american imperialism is nothing new
american imperialism is a threat to the rest of us on thursday may 30
american imperialism is acting not only as an aggressor
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american imperialism is focused on many of the settlements that have happened through out history
american imperialism is not something of the past century but was with the american system from the start
american imperialism is right or wrong
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american imperialism is our peculiar belief that the people we conquer are better off for it and love us for enslaving them
american imperialism is pretty sick
american imperialism is a really shitty reason
american imperialism is that it “dare not speak its name”
american imperialism is set to cause chaos again in 2002
american imperialism is that it has entered the field of active practical cooperation with the oppressed peoples of
american imperialism is the custodian of global capitalism
Googlism for: iraqi baby
iraqi baby is killed by air force missiles in one of the harder scenes to watch
iraqi baby is murdered in its bed
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iraq is not inevitable but we must act decisively now
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iraq is again in the center of the world’s mass media
iraq is also the question of palestine the us is prepared to help the arab cause
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iraq is enemy; voices in wilderness condemn us threats iraq
iraq is not rambo rhetoric
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Band name: Visible Id.
Saw Nicholas Ray’s “Bigger then Life” last night with Marianne, Gary, and Bradley. James Mason plays a straitlaced schooolteacher in the 50s who goes psychotic & megalomaniacal from cortisone pills that are intended to save his life. Beautiful cinematography — cinemascope, muted 50s colors and Caravaggio-like flashes of red. Has someone done a study on the color red in the films of Nicholas Ray? Memorable quotes from James Mason’s character’s craziness:
Childhood is a congenital disease.
I can’t afford this — I’m a teacher not a plumber!
God was WRONG!
I told Marianne that I really identified with the Mason character. If I could find a drug that would make my nerves and muscles feel like something other than vicious little steel cables running from my neck and into my arms, I might take it even if it made me a little psychotic. (Is that like being a little pregnant?) There is a scene that shows the machine monitoring Mason’s pain in relation to the cortisone. You can see the pain start to diminish as he takes more of the drug until finally, in glorious 50s script like you used to see on car and refrigerator logos came on the screen: NO PAIN!
As I wrote to Nick: “Pain! You can’t live with it, you can’t live without it.”
Or as I said to Gary on this particularly crabby morning, “It’s torture. Amnesty International ought to send ME money instead of vice versa.” It’s true, in a way. Pain that won’t go away is extremely corrosive. It twists my brain around, and is largely responsible for the cynicism, disgust, ambivalence, etc…
Of course it would help to think positive thoughts, move around, watch my breathing, eat more vegetables and NOT TYPE.
OK, today I am going to think positive thoughts. Bye!
Goddesses bless Nick Piombino for quoting on his blog the only salvageably unsymptomatic bit from yesterday’s rant. Of course he’s right we should come on people now smile on your brother everybody get together & etc.
Still haven’t figured out the taboo on appearing symptomatic, though. The fact is, the symptoms creep through anyway, whether or not you decide to be overt about them.
For a truly lovely antidote to my unforgivable cynicism, please to go visit Marianne Shaneen’s Froth (link at left).
A Rant: On Cynicism, Disgust, Ambivalence, Nihilism, Despair, and the Erasure of Origin
Gary and I are still getting feedback from a few older writers who mistakenly believe that we intended some kind of attack for having framed the Blank Generation forum question in the newsletter before last the way we did, with “out-of-context” [as if a quotation, by its very nature, could be otherwise!] quotations from Ron S. and Lyn H. Ron charged us with “the excision of history” for leaving out the background to his quote. What no one seems to remark on, though, is that there was no editorial position implied in our selection or presentation of those quotes; I would not assert that I necessarily disagree with what either of those writers was saying! I felt fairly accurately indicted by them. (But then I feel indicted by everything, an echo of Jordan’s “mea culpa” — this war’s all my fault, right?) A politics of cynicism and disgust? Yeah! Hello! Look what’s happening! This outrageous stinking bully of a country we live in. Why do you think I left it in the first place?
Yes, cynicism and disgust. “No one pays any attention anyway.” “Ecch.” But not REDUCED to MERELY cynicism and disgust — there’s more to the mix. Denial. for instance: “Wake me up when it’s over.” “It’s not really happening, right?”
[big excision here — things i regret saying]
I’m (clearly) not apolitical but I don’t like politics. I never intended for this blog to be a dedicated political space. But I deeply *deeply* resent — no, I TOTALLY FUCKING HATE the Bush administration for invading not only an undeserving country but also my brain, my sleep, my blog, and my poems, and moreover making me not care about writing poems because at the moment looks like there’s no future to write them down for, and the present is like completely lost. Poor little privileged poetess. Lucky they ain’t bombing yo ass or knocking at the door to arrest you for treason. I suppose they’re waiting until next week.
A thought: the war is about ERASURE of ORIGIN. That is, The cradle of civilization will be the grave of civilization.
Where’s Marianne? We’re worried about her…
Blogfriends, help! help!
I again need to choose a novel for my advanced ESL class, the one with whom I read _Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?_ (with much success). At the level just below this one I taught Salinger’s _Nine Stories_.
I have been reading a bunch of novels over the past couple of weeks and I just can’t seem to hit on the right one.
Here’s what I’ve read:
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg (wonderful book, but too mystical?)
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead (again a wonderful book but the dreaminess of it might be hard for foreign students)
After the Plague — short stories by T.C. Boyle (too crass and violent even if they do give an “accurate” picture of the USA — really good IDIOMS, though)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez (to me, this had no narrative urgency)
considered a book called something like The Golems of Gotham and a novel by Y. Blak Moore — both of these were strikingly unsuitable.
Considering also
The English Patient (although I never actually thought this book was so interesting, I know lots of other people love it)
Sheltering Sky (I adore this book but I’m afraid it’s too dark and interior)
And here’s what I really like best, although it’s a truly SHOCKING book:
Dem by William Melvin Kelley (bitter bitter satire about whitefolks for black readers) but I’m not sure if with all its squirmy discomforts this is the best option for the classroom.
The problem is, I have to decide for sure by MONDAY! I could REALLY use some ideas. Here are the general criteria:
–no translations
–nothing too outrageously violent or sexual, but adult content is OK, of course
–under 300 pages
–vocabulary can be fairly sophisticated but I can’t, for example, teach _Lolita_
–must be highly discussable, bring up important issues
–Ideally it would be something that either “speaks to the immigrant experience” (but Sandra Cisneros, for example, would not be challenging enough for them) or that sheds some light on American culture, preferably contemporary.
–Should be well-written, engrossing, and not boring for me! These students tend to be pretty sophisticated. At the same time some colloquial language is desirable, too.
–Doesn’t absolutely have to be fiction, BTW. I considered Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickeled and Dimed in America but then decided to let another teacher take it.
I can speed read but I need your suggestions, for which I will be forever grateful, ASAP.
Thank you thank you!
My Dirty Mind
Side of a bakery truck:
“Big enough to service you,
small enough to care.”
