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Date Posted: 11:43:52 12/04/03 Thu
Author: Pouncer
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Subject: This year has been so fragmented
In reply to: Kuzibah 's message, "Kuzibah's Pop-Culture Question of the Day" on 10:00:01 12/04/03 Thu

I could make a case for Jacques Chirac as spoiler of US foreign policy, I agree with Grim about Johnny Depp's pop culture influence, you could throw in Michael Jackson for the wierdness factor . . .

I've been loving HH too. I taped last nights movie because of The O.C., and I can't wait to watch.

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[> Re: Kuzibah's Pop-Culture Question of the Day -- wwolfe, 13:54:32 12/04/03 Thu (161.149.63.100)

That's an interesting question.

My feeling is that a question like this one ought to inspire an immediate, almost reflexive response; if it doesn't, then there probably wasn't one person who dominated the past year.

Using that method, I drew a blank.

Grim's suggestion, Saddam, has merit. A similar case could be made for President Bush.

In the realm of pup culture, I don't think there was one person who overshadowed everyone else. In that respect, I agree with Pouncer that it was a fragmented year.

So to answer your question, I think I'd nominate a thing, rather than a person: the war in Iraq. To me, that dominated this past year, far beyond any other thing.

Perhaps a way to examine the war through the focus of one person would be to choose someone who served there as the subject of the biography.

For me, the story from the war that's stayed with me more than any other is the 19-year-old Hispanic woman from Texas who volunteered for the Army and was killed by mortar fire after being in Iraq for about a month. If I were to produce an episode of "Biography" centered on her, I would give the basic story of her life, while using that story as a means to look at other subjects, such as the various reasons people join our volunteer armed forces, the events and forces that led to the war, the wide range of opinions it has inspired, and discussions about the future of the military and political efforts by the U.S. in Iraq, as well as the deeper meaning of current events in the larger context of long-term regional and global history.


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