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Osama bin Baggins?(likening the "The Fellowship Of The Ring" to the war on terrorism)(Brief Article)
"The Fellowship Of The Ring," we hoped, would provide an escape from the reality of the war on terror. So why do journalists insist on drawing allusions between the fantastical tale and modern-day political realities? The Times of London's Bronwen Maddox recently described the mountain ranges of Middle-earth as "greener than the Hindu Kush or the Pamirs but equally daunting." But at least her allegory of "figures with long beards [sitting] in a circle arguing about the fate of their country" was more subtle than that of London Evening Standard writer Alexander Walker. "People in 'Lord of the Rings' have more hair than they do in Afghanistan," he wrote.
Andrew Sullivan of The New Republic joined the fun, posting his own reflections on the film on his Web site: "Isn't Dubya a classic Frodo? His dad, Bilbo [sic]... had ...
- bfi pays tribute to film critic and broadcaster Alexander Walker.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 15, 2003 700+ words
...British Film Institute today paid tribute to former bfi governor Alexander Walker whose death was announced this morning. bfi Chairman Anthony Minghella said: "Alexander Walker's contribution to the appreciation and understanding of British...
- African American literature as spiritual witness: the poetic example of...
- Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature Pierce, Yolanda January 1, 2009 700+ words
...African and Christian origins. Using the poetry of Margaret Alexander Walker, this brief article simply argues that while there does...theology is at the heart of this canon of texts. Margaret Alexander Walker was the daughter of a Methodist minister and the granddaughter...
- How to collect: when the film critic Alexander Walker died in 2003 he...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Spanier, Samson December 1, 2004 700+ words
The journalist Victoria Mather once asked her friend Alexander Walker how he could afford to buy so many works of art. 'I don't buy them', came the reply, 'I just pay back the dealers for years...
- Pick of the crix: an appreciation.(Guest Column)(critic Alexander Walker passes...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Weinstein, Harvey July 23, 2003 700+ words
When you make films, there are critics you rush to read and critics you don't give a damn about. Alexander Walker, who died July 15, was definitely in the first camp. You might not have agreed with everything he wrote, but you had to be...
- Brit crit in snit over U.K. pic subsidies.(Evening Standard film critic...
- Magazine article from: Variety GAYNOS, STEVEN August 20, 2001 700+ words
...privately as "the most dangerous man in the British film industry." What troubles the critics of Evening Standard critic Alexander Walker is not so much what he says about what's on the screen, but the fervor with which he attacks the public financial support...
- A tarnished 'republic.' ('New Republic' journalist Stephen Glass wrote a story...
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Steinfels, Peter June 19, 1998 700+ words
...sprang to mind as I read the June 1 issue of the New Republic. "The New Republic has always been a stringent magazine," the...issue has been widely reported. Since 1995, the New Republic has published forty-one articles by Stephen...
- The New Republic, Peretz: a 30-year marriage.(off the record)(Martin Peretz)
- Magazine article from: St. Louis Journalism Review Steege, Jenna July 1, 2007 700+ words
The New Republic is getting older. After 93 years in...since 1974, but this February The New Republic was acquired by Canada's largest...Croly and Walter Lippmann founded The New Republic in 1914 under the auspices of Standard...
- The New Republic at seventy. (70th anniversary)
- Magazine article from: National Review December 28, 1984 700+ words
THE NEW REPUBLIC now celebrates its seventieth anniversary...over an important span of years. The New Republic has had a variegated history, with...1974 when Martin Peretz bought The New Republic from Gilbert Harrison. Under peretz...
- "The New Republic" Takes on a New Look, CNNfn.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire February 24, 2003 700+ words
...BIZ: For nearly a century now "The New Republic" has been a leading left wing magazine...the President and Publisher of "The New Republic", Stephanie Sandberg. Welcome to...PRESIDENT & PUBLISHER, "THE NEW REPUBLIC": Thank you. Thank you for having...
- The New Republic Reader: Eighty Years of Opinion and Debate.
- Magazine article from: National Review Welch, Colin September 12, 1994 700+ words
...WE ENGLISH think of your magazine The New Republic as the American equivalent of our own...Statesman. Confronted by a fat anthology of New Republic wit and wisdom, we would expect to...its foibles and funny ways, to The New Republic, am I being grossly unfair to its American...
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