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Indeed, the GC of DANGEROUS LIAISONS.
If you are trying to persuade others of the merits of your position, you are going about it the wrong way.
I'm an admirer of Lawrence; I love WINTER'S BONE and THE HUNGER GAMES, and I would like to see her as part of the cast of a big production of DON QUIXOTE. A bit of tact and forebearance goes a long way with me; the hostile antagonistic approach you have adopted instead does not encourage agreement.
Trust my experience; science often makes mistakes and has to correct itself. That is why scientists are humble modest people who never claim to literally know everything.
Do you honestly think that insults win frends and arguments?
For centuries the geocentric theory--the Earth as the center of the solar system--was unquestioned science; starting with Copernicus the theory started to get reexamined, and finally rejected.
Geocentrism lasted from the time of Ptolemy to the time of Copernicus and Galileo--a very lengthy time. Should a theory that is comparatively new be accorded the undoubted credibility enjoyed by, say, the Law of Gravity?
As Diogenes would say: a healthy amount of cynicism is very valuable for judging ideas and theories whose value remains to be proven.
That report was incorrect? Good; the climate change theory must be examined as carefully as any other undecided scientific question. When I was born sixty three years and two days ago, there was still support for the theories of the Missing Link and the canals of Mars. Since then it has been established that apes and humans are not grandparents and grandchildren, but rather cousins who share a common ancestor. As for the canals of Mars, they turned out to be nothing more than the scratches on the lenses of telescopes; that was why astronomers could never agree on the correct layout of those canals.
JLaw, as a famous person, is likely to be misquoted; nothing can be done about that. The important thing for her to do is to be careful not to embarrass herself with statements that cannot be dismissed as misquotations.
Read on the history of antisemitism, and you will see that it, too, has an spurious scientific foundation that reaches back long before the Godforsaken 20th century.
It's very dangerous to attribute infallibility to science. To mention just one of thousands of examples of science proved wrong, black slavery once had a scientific foundation; blacks were considered as inherently inferior and fit only for slavery. Read the story of the Dred Scott case, which is very illuminating in that respect.
Not the wisest thing in the world to attribute a political context to the behavior of Mother Nature.
Juan Jose Morales, one of the residents of Pinellas who was miraculously spared the anger of Irma.
The year CHARIOTS OF MIS-FIRE stole the Oscar was most definitely not a good year. Realizing how boring it was, distributors in Puerto Rico did not release it until after the awards ceremony in the hope that the prestige of the Oscar would fool Puerto Ricans into thinking that that uninspiring tale about two totally forgotten Olympians deserved their patronage. No such luck; my compatriots were NOT fooled.
Who is Caesar Flickerman supposed to be? His smarmy manner suggests Letterman.
THE NAKED PREY, with Cornel Wilde?
How did you like his Idi Amin in RAID ON ENTEBBE? The real Amin was SO FAT, he made Kotto look skinny by comparison.
You all know how often 1939, the year of GONE WITH THE WIND, THE WIZARD OF OZ, and THE WOMEN, is hailed as the greatest year in movie history. Which years match its eminence, and which years look very bad by comparison?
That seems to be the one; thank you very much.
I had come to believe that the 007s were immortal; who will be the next to pass on?
PB is doing quite well in THE SON.
Julius Harris, Geoffrey Holder and Christopher Lee have also died; besides Jane Seymour, Britt Eklund and Maud Adams, who else is left from LALD and TMWTGG?
That's it! Thank you very much; I'll try to buy it for my collection.
Let me remind you of Svetlana Stalina and her siblings. Should they have paid for the atrocities of their father, which include the Holodomor, the deliberate starvation of Ukraine, which forced many Ukrainians to survive by devouring their own children?
Thank you.
Very often, in situations of famine, people have had to survive on cat, dog, horse, mule, and rodent.
ROLLERCOASTER, from 1977, with George Segal as the detective and Timothy Bottoms as the terrorist.