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I suppose, it's just so different, Kubrick had such greater constraints. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBW77_n7l68 Sorry, I meant is the actress playing Lolita better than Sue Lyon.

I am on a movie jag, not by choice. Movies are all I am currently getting for free on TV. Currently they are showing all of Woody Allen's movies, most of which I have seen before. What strikes me is that in retrospect my impression of his work has not changed. His early comedy was truly funny. Manhattan and Annie Hall, New York City travelogues apart, were creepy and sort of depressing, and Diane Keaton is not that charismatic a star., not fascinating enough a personality to carry a movie. Match Point was a good film noir, but the operatic score in the final scenes was too over the top. Irony was not required here. Radio Days is completely satisfying, a lovely film.

Just saw the end - it was good, especially how much she looked like her mother in the later scenes. But I thought her acting was rotten. I didn't know there was a Jeremy Irons one, he is so good - is the Lolita better?

Dismissive does not surprise me. She was fluent in English, he was a master of it.That is, he wasted his writing in nonessentials, she would think. You do not need to be master of a language to express yourself clearly in it.

Kubrick. I like James Mason in anything, but I am not really paying attention. I haven't read the book. I read Ada and one other I forget the name of. I remember admiring his depth of language, but I didn't really "get" him.

You'll have the story then Phil, but it is a story and will be longer than my usual posts so it will take awhile. Thank you for asking for it.

I have a fondness for Vladimir, although I have only read a couple of his books and he is one of those "always mean to reread" authors for me. I like him only because one of his books was on my future husband's bookshelf when I first met him, and that impressed me enough to ...be impressed enough to..be impressed. You get the idea. It turned out that he had never read the book (it was left there by a previous tenant) but so what. Also on his bookshelf was Reginald Hill, whom he had read and who is a lot more entertaining. My thoughts of Nabokov are prompted by Lolita being on TV just now (she looks so much like Reese Witherspoon!), and I am wondering if Ayn Rand ever commented on him - like her he was a Russian novelist who wrote in English, though I believe he learned his English as a child. I've never read any comments she made on any novelists she was contemporaneous with, come to think of it, except Mickey Spillane of course. Did she just ignore them all?

Carol: Lott's research is in his book by that title. There is a third edition out now. This is how the original book, which I have and have read was described: Does allowing people to own or carry guns deter violent crime? Or does it simply cause more citizens to harm each other? Directly challenging common perceptions about gun control, legal scholar John Lott presents the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever done on crime statistics and right-to-carry laws. This timely and provocative work comes to the startling conclusion: more guns mean less crime. In this paperback edition, Lott has expanded the research through 1996, incorporating new data available from states that passed right-to-carry and other gun laws since the book's publication as well as new city-level statistics. http://www.amazon.co...g/dp/0226493636 Well, I actually looked up Lott on Wiki, and you know how I hate to look things up. I had to turn over on my other side. Anyway, I only found 2 things before the Wiki page was taken over by a huge ad asking me to think about the world without it, and I couldn't get rid of the ad, so I thought the world without it would not be so bad. 1. Lott's study was of thirty-one states (31) before and after. 2. In his photo Lott looks like a young Jack Ruby. There is a John Lott who is a gun dealer in Texas, I guess there is some connection.

Y Axis - Years before / after Conceal Carry Shall Issue Law Y Axis - Years before / after Conceal Carry Shall Issue Law Thanks. I still don't see any link to Lott's original research study, not that I could interpret it if I did. The peer review criticism I only got the index, but that was impressive. It does not make sense to me that the more widely distributed a tool is, the less it will be used, but I know many true things do not make sense on the surface. If fewer people have been shot or killed where guns are unregulated, than where they are regulated, I am willing to be convinced by evidence.

Carol: John Lott's research has compiled the numbers from all US counties. He has compared the numbers of all incidents before and after concealed gun/carry permits and the results are clear that an increase in an armed citizenry directly results in a decrease in rapes, assaults and other violent crimes. Additionally, there is no demonstrable commensurate increase in "accidental deaths" by guns. It is that simple. Adam How long are the before and after periods?

I can't imagine where he got that vague example of the statisticians' art. How about accidental shooting deaths?Manslaughter , maiming, etc Where is this taking place? Everywhere in the world? Everywhere in the US? Among 10 people in Detroit? As to the woman statistic, who buys guns and why? If a woman is afraid a man will kill her, she may buy a gun and therefore not get murdered. That doesn't guarantee that he won't.

I too thought when reading the quote posted by Ba'al : "What a wonderful saying that is!" It propels you forward, encourages you to never give up. Every action that brings light into the darkness counts. There's such a deep truth in that. There are times when cursing the darkness, metaphorically speaking, may be the appropriate thing to do. A better "candle" quotation is the poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay: Ghs Yes indeed, then comes the time when "your moment is the sun/upon the hill, after the sun has set." What a fine poet she was. "Music my refuge, and my only one" ... and "Euclid alone hath looked on beauty bare." A good Objectivist motto! And oh yes - Was it for this I uttered prayers and sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs? that now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half past eight"

I too thought when reading the quote posted by Ba'al : "What a wonderful saying that is!" It propels you forward, encourages you to never give up. Every action that brings light into the darkness counts. There's such a deep truth in that. There are times when cursing the darkness, metaphorically speaking, may be the appropriate thing to do. A better "candle" quotation is the poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay: Ghs Yes indeed, then comes the time when "your moment is the sun/upon the hill, after the sun has set." What a fine poet she was. "Music my refuge, and my only one" ... and "Euclid alone hath looked on beauty bare." A good Objectivist motto!

I too thought when reading the quote posted by Ba'al : "What a wonderful saying that is!" It propels you forward, encourages you to never give up. Every action that brings light into the darkness counts. There's such a deep truth in that. Angela, thanks for sourcing that , How appropriate that it would be that "help of the helpless" group who coined that quietly powerful phrase. The candles of course might never spread enough light to bring forth justice for all the persecuted. But the candles lit in ourselves, when doing what is right, are enough to keep us going.

Well, that was 30 years ago. Here we are in the future. Let's consider it. ..... Nothing gives the victim the right to act on his own to recover his property. Thus, apparently, we surrender our right to self-defense, except in the most immediate of circumstances. Well reasoned Michael, and Amen Ayn.

Jeez, Phil! Just when I get down on my butt (or in my case, my side) to nonprodutcively go on the internet and watch TV you have to hit me with this. (On the plus side your topic titles are improving). I have in fact engaged in such activity as you describe, but it was in the area of union organizing, striking, etc., and though deeply satisfying and exhilirating as it was, I do not think you would admire it.

Price comparisons are moot anyway, since Norman feudalism ended the good old free market of wergild and distorted the gold-based standard of individual life evaluation. It's been all downhill since then for true value trading.

Oh dear. Somewhere I’ve heard a phrase before, ah yes, “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”. Profound stuff. Thanks Phil. And how many tax collectors and loyalists just went missing during the period? Any unexplained disappearances? Maybe the rebel-sympathising coroners systematically falsified the cause of death for the countless victims. And maybe there's a celestial teapot... Interesting stuff. My ancestors were Massachussets Tories and there is a family legend that one of them was tarred and feathered and ridden on a rail. He died shortly after that but no cause of death has been found.

Traffic lights don't work either, nor seatbelts nor driver licencing, since people will always run the red lights unbuckled while driving without a license, sometimes in a stolen car.

Carol, She just may be a good writer, but I won't rush for her novel. After your synopsis. So much so-called Objectivist fiction is terribly derivative. Or, morally thematic to an extreme -I think only one author could get away with this. (Though I might be wrong; I have gaps in my classical reading.) I like my heroes dimensional, perhaps somewhat flawed, and the theme less in-your-face. It is putting one's own mind and imagination to work, that the better writers demand of one, I think - 'reading between the lines'- otherwise it could be a text book. Carol, She just may be a good writer, but I won't rush for her novel. After your synopsis. So much so-called Objectivist fiction is terribly derivative. Or, morally thematic to an extreme -I think only one author could get away with this. (Though I might be wrong; I have gaps in my classical reading.) I like my heroes dimensional, perhaps somewhat flawed, and the theme less in-your-face. It is putting one's own mind and imagination to work, that the better writers demand of one, I think - 'reading between the lines'- otherwise it could be a text book. Tony, The synopsis came from one of her fans - but I won't be rushing to read it either. I did read the opening, it is about a girl riding a bicycle and then falling off it, while her boyfriend from afar can see every small detail (apparently he has telescopic vision). Medical thrillers don't usually interest me much anyway. You are right about the derivative. Do you indulge in the creative writing that gets posted on OOnline? Gruesome. There is a "short story" called Triumph over there - well, words fail me. The passive voice indeed has a lot to answer for.

I think for him it was a controlled explosion, the work part of his life consisting of being a union president constantly playing by the rulebook, being polite while the management was rude, gaining the advantage by staying calm while they lost their tempers. What would he have done without the outlet of the sport which had been his passion since age 2?

Hockey being in a lull I will barge in on your football thread. My husband Eddie as coach and player believed what you believed, but in practice what he usually did was roar at the top of his lungs and get thrown out of the game. (This was "fitba' (soccer). Many was the time he coached his team to victory from the parking lot. He had a wonderful deep bass voice and like the chorister he once was, could be heard in every corner of the venue. To his credit he never swore, but his "Come on, referee" indeed rang the note of damnation.

I don't understand that poll - what does random order mean here? It looks like it;s nearly half and half, how could this help the left? I don't understand the clothespins either and I don't think it would be Respectable to cogitate upon, I will just thank you kindly but there is no need, I live above a laundromat and the internet has been fixed again by a trio of intelligent young Bell techs. Carol: Lol... Random order means, if you hit the link, they run each of the top Republican candidates against O'bama in a random order, not in terms of alphabetical or who is leading. Having Dr. Paul as the candidate, they believe would guarantee an O'bama victory, possibly a landslide, a la Barry Goldwater in 1964. Strangely enough, the Republican establishment also believes that and that is why they want Goody Two Shoes [Romney] because even if he cannot win, he will be close enough so they can take the Senate and hold the House which means that they can still have access to all the money and committee chairmanships. Adam Thanks for the explanation. The huge divide in your politics seems to guarantee that no modern president can get anything done. Yet the government keeps rolling along.

I don't understand that poll - what does random order mean here? It looks like it;s nearly half and half, how could this help the left? I don't understand the clothespins either and I don't think it would be Respectable to cogitate upon, I will just thank you kindly but there is no need, I live above a laundromat and the internet has been fixed again by a trio of intelligent young Bell techs.

Ahem, I recall your attention to the multiplicity of Ron Paul threads. Most seem to come from Gulch 8 who passes along the latest bulletins each as a standalone topic. Michael if you are reading, could you put these all in one thread, Ron Paul Latest News or something? Gulch knows the posts will be read and discussed, there is no need for everything to be a headline.