Word: wonder
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...column, I considered writing some great ideological manifesto that would be my parting salvo against injustices here and elsewhere. Instead, I went to see "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace." I decided to use the Star Wars "phenomenon" as a lens through which to examine some of the joy and wonder I've tried to write about in this space this past semester. Warning: if you haven't seen "The Phantom Menace," spoilers ahead...
George Lucas has said on many occasions that he made "The Phantom Menace," along with the other "Star Wars" films, primarily for kids. What has left unsaid is that children do not have to be limited by age: the movie is for the childlike joy and wonder left in all of us, if only we look for it within ourselves. It is so easy to abandon these things as the detritus of a journey to "maturity"; however, being older and "wiser" does not mean that we're any closer to the truth. When we are children, we often...
...film, drawing on our society's love for popular culture and, more importantly, often wordless search for truth, has brought people together like few other things can. Only once in my life have I sat in a theater of 700 people cheering throughout a movie, sharing the joy and wonder I felt with strangers...
...movie, Brooks will release an album of greatest hits from Gaines' 15-year career. In fact, all the songs on the album are new. "We wrote songs to sound like they came from different periods," explains Pat Quigley, president of Capitol Records in Nashville, Tenn. "We have a Stevie Wonder period, a Babyface period." Still with us? Good, because when the film comes out, an entirely different set of Chris Gaines songs will be released as a sound-track album. Ah, if only the Padres had let him play right field...
...wonder sometimes if there may not in fact be a correlation between the tyranny of the instant, in our accelerated, data-filled information culture, and the longing for those graces that belong to a more spacious time. Perhaps people crave, and are demanding, a return to something deeper, or less of the moment. The surprise best seller of two years ago--a serious literary novel by a first timer, no less--was a retelling of The Odyssey in the culture of the Civil War (with a flavor directly taken from the Taoist hermits of old China). It was replaced...