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...then, to more mainstream projects. What about Steven Spielberg’s take on H. G. Wells?? War of the Worlds, awaiting a June 29 release, in which Robbins shares the screen with Tom Cruise, Miranda Otto, and Dakota Fanning? The residents of late-Victorian Britain felt the brute force of interplanetary colonialism in Wells?? classic science fiction novel, and Robbins is the first to admit that Spielberg’s contemporary update, set in America, might have some underlying relevance to the current geopolitical scene...
...black experience, as a work of African-American studies, his memoir is largely vapid. Most incredulously, he refers incorrectly to Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man three times, adding an article to the title and therefore inadvertently—and inexcusably—alluding to H.G. Wells?? The Invisible...
...maintain a finger on the pulse of New York, Brent Staples is the sole black person on its 15-member editorial board. These sorts of numbers would have bolstered Blair’s claims. Instead, he resorts to generalities upon which Ralph Ellison—or, hell, even H.G. Wells??would surely frown...
...there is another threat that deserves immediate attention: the remote but scary possibility of accidental microbial contamination from space. In H.G. Wells?? original “War of the Worlds” (1897), the superior Martian invaders were defeated in the end by “the humblest thing that God in His wisdom put upon this Earth”—by microbes, who caused the defenseless Martians to catch colds...
...tour of Auschwitz by Himmler;” “The grand mufti of Jerusalem was personally responsible for the concentration camp slaughter of thousands of Jews;” the mufti organized a commando unit “to poison Tel Aviv’s wells??; “The mufti was apparently planning to return to Palestine in the event of a German victory and to construct a death camp modeled after Auschwitz near Nablus;” and on and on. I have consulted the relevant secondary literature and the leading authorities...