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The Metro Maze And The Free Shows

Sun, 11 Aug 2002 19:11:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - Lara and I accompany her friends from work and a friend's friend working at the Environmental Protection Agency for a Monday evening free movie on the Mall, a gift of corporate sponsors, a Hitchcock movie on that: oh, what a plot! What was a thrilling...

Start With The Last Essay, The One On Bill Gates

Mon, 25 Jun 2001 21:05:55 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - Because that is the one most well-written. And then go backwards, I suggest. I, on the other hand, read the first essay first and went onwards from there.

The book has an interesting string of 25 biographical essays on the giants of American...

Bill Gates Might Be On Overdrive, But The Book Does Not Tell The Full Story

Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:36:54 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - The book is short on technology, long on the human story. That might be the writer's intent all along, but I would have appreciated more details as to the specifics of technology. One hopes a book of this length will better inform than articles on the...

Java, Jini And The Possible Post-PC Future

Fri, 30 Mar 2001 17:49:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - "In 1995, Sun launched Java - a programming language that turns the Internet into a computer operating system." (page 7)

Vinod Khosla: "I am a very competitive person and I didn't want to build a small company. There are companies when...

Diversity, Small Town, Small Campus

Sat, 24 Feb 2001 21:34:54 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - (I) Jesus, Grandparentalism, and Food On The Table

We are individuals, but we also are groups. We as individuals subscribe to various collective identities. In my experience racism is about people who prefer to stick to mirrors and are...

When Serving Rich People Becomes Your Social Life

Thu, 4 Jan 2001 00:14:27 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - Like during previous Christmas Breaks, and like most other international students staying around in town as opposed to the American students who get to go home, I served tables at the college-owned Boone Tavern Hotel for the past two weeks or so. During...

The HillyBillies - Episode III

Wed, 3 Jan 2001 12:24:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - Mike: Hola. Whassup?

Paramendra: Hey Mikie, my man.

Mike: You a fifth year senior right?

Paramendra: Yep. Changed my major one more time too late. I guess it is hard to make up one's mind on something as...

The HillyBillies - Episode II

Fri, 8 Dec 2000 19:03:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - Mike: Hey, hi there. Whassup?

Paramendra: Not a damn thing.

Mike: Paramendra, right?

Paramendra: Yeah, you got that one right.

Mike: How have you been? I remember last time we had an...

The Absentee Landlords

Thu, 7 Dec 2000 10:58:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - Author

John Gaventa atttended Vanderbilt University in Tennessee from where he graduated. He went on to become a Rhodes Scholar, and received his doctorate from Oxford University in England. Gaventa has helped lead an adult education...

Table-Hopping At Food Service

Wed, 6 Dec 2000 00:07:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - I have resorted to table-hopping at Food Service this year, although the pace has slowed down this past week or so. The dining hall has become my favorite place on campus, and you know I am not talking about food, which, by the way, I think, is decent...

The MilkMen Of The World In Search Of Their Roots

Tue, 5 Dec 2000 17:36:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - "Wanna fly, you got to give up the sh*t that weighs you down" (179).

Jay the only son of Solomon

Come booba yalle, come booba tambee

Whirl about and touch the sun

Come booba yalle, come booba tambee...

The HillyBillies – Episode I

Sun, 3 Dec 2000 13:33:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra -

Paramendra: Oh, hi, how you doin'? What's your name?

Mike: Oh, hey. I am Michael. Call me Mike. It works. What's yours?

Paramendra: Para - mendra.

Mike: So Bara is your first name and what was...

Christian College, Straight College

Wed, 29 Nov 2000 02:24:41 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - To call Berea a Christian college is not different from if we were to call it a Straight college. This has to go.

Each religion is a belief system. I have met many "Christians" in my time here, some of them pretty weird...

"To thee I deliver up my soul."

Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:42:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - "Barabbas is the acquitted; the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified upon the hill of Golgotha. Barabbas is a man condemned to have no god. "Christos Iesus" is carved on the disk suspended from his neck,...

"We've become medieval."

Wed, 20 Sep 2000 04:39:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - I have seen the movie The English Patient and I have liked it enormously: the movie was based on a novel by Michael Ondaatje. But this - Anil's Ghost - is the first Ondaatje novel I got to read, set in contemporary Sri Lanka beset...

Dr. Trebla Erog ----------> President Al Gore

Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:32:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - (or, Bill Turque, expect a Thank You note from the Gore campaign)

No, Al Gore is not the local Swedish gynecologist gone dead. His wife did not die in a subsequent car crash.

About two years back, I read another biography of Al Gore...

Soylent Green: Silent Spring: Heston Come Forward

Sun, 10 Sep 2000 02:45:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - "Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only a change of worlds."

Chief Seattle, 1854

http://www.halcyon.com/arborhts/chiefsea.html

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Paying A Marley A Tapestry-Tribute

Fri, 8 Sep 2000 20:05:34 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - This is part of a write-off. Just when I was in a mood to get down to writing a string of book reviews, I got into this. This particular album, this particular artist, this time in history, this particular rhythm. I entered the world of Bob Marley the...

Why Berea Should Stop Calling Itself A Christian College

Wed, 6 Sep 2000 02:04:59 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - Berea College is a college and not a church and defeats its purpose when it feels the need to act like one. Faith is of fundamental importance to most people. Most people put god before family and family before most everything else. And so to not accept...

Raw and Powerful and Panoramic

Tue, 5 Sep 2000 16:40:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - I just watched this movie for a class: GSTR 475 G Christianity And Contemporary Culture, Fall 2000, with Dr. Jim Gage. This class is part of the core curriculum here at Berea College and perhaps the final in a long string of such General Studies classes...

They Can Smell Each Other

Mon, 7 Aug 2000 10:19:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - If you are like me and have liked every Al Pacino movie you ever saw and asked for more, liked every Robert De Niro movie you ever saw and asked for more, and have liked Val Kilmer in many a performance, you are on the road-kill with this one.

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The Apu Trilogy (III): Apur Sansar

Tue, 1 Aug 2000 23:35:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - This trilogy is the most authentic portrayal of India I have seen on celluloid. The director went on to win a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award. The movie was named "the Best Foreign Film of 1960 by the National Board of Review."
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The Apu Trilogy (II): Aparajito

Tue, 1 Aug 2000 22:48:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - This trilogy is the most authentic portrayal of India I have seen on celluloid. The director went on to win a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award. The movie won the "first prize, Golden Lion, at Venice 1957."

The Apu Trilogy...

The Apu Trilogy (I): Pather Panchali

Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:40:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra - This is the most authentic portrayal of India I have seen on celluloid. The director went on to win a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award. This is Ray's debut film.

The Apu Trilogy (I): Pather Panchali (Song of the Little...

"I feel like a f______g teenager"

Sat, 29 Jul 2000 00:46:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author paramendra -

Frank is a police officer. His wife has walked on him, but he can't get over it. He calls her three in the morning, "Hey, I think I got appendicitis." She hangs up. End of story.

How about an Al Pacino movie for a...