Word: barbarianism
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...College for two years, then went to the film school of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. At U.S.C., Lucas finally came into his own. "He played with the concepts, he was free, he said we can do anything," says Classmate John Milius, director of Conan the Barbarian. "In those days we really felt we were going to change everything, that we were going to make the greatest art. And we did to a degree...
...barbarian hordes beginning their classes this month may be the largest in U.S. history, a tribute to both parental prodigality and the ideal of universal education. Though the crest of the 1950s baby boom has passed the college years, a larger percentage of high school graduates now goes to college (61%, vs. 40% a generation ago), and the number of older and part-time students keeps increasing (34% of students are over 25). All in all, the number of Americans who are signing up for some form of higher education this fall totals a mind-boggling 12.5 million. Mind-boggling...
...cruelly. And you ask yourself, why did the Illiad and the Odyssey survive, and why did they become the epic for the Greek city-states. What was in them that made them such a universal expression of what it means to be Greek as opposed to barbarian. They are an expression of what it means to be educated, what it means to be wise. To us, they are narratives, but for many societies, the narrative is a way of organizing reality, what a society's values...
...think we should negotiate with the Israeli, barbarian, savage, terrorist military junta in Israel, with their
...Wrath of Khan (June 4-6). Biggest opening two weeks: E.T. (June 11-24). Flashiest streak for the industry: the past six weeks, every one of which earned $100 million in the U.S. Moviegoers were still lining up to see Rocky III ($75 million in six weeks), Conan the Barbarian ($39 million in eight weeks), Spielberg's suburban gothic chiller Poltergeist ($39.5 million in five weeks), and the surprise hit of the spring, the basement-budget Porky's ($100 million in 16 weeks...