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And while Hollywood struggles to find meaning in Titanic and Leo-mania, Fox's newly-minted, longterm deal with Aussie auteur Baz Luhrmann--who directed DiCaprio in Romeo and Juliet --shows that they do get it, after all.
A recent program on the Minoan civilization mentioned that Michael Ventris was a teenager when he listened to a lecture by Sir Arthur Evans in which he described his struggles trying to translate what had become known as Linear A and Linear B, the ancient scripts found at Knossos and elsewhere in Crete.
The accompanying patter goes like this: Families do not allow one member to prosper while another struggles; ergo , we need something like a bigger welfare system or a more progressive tax code.
Time deems the book "definitive" but too harsh: "Morris struggles for fairness but portrays Luce as a calculating, self-indulgent user whose fixed eye on the main chance rendered her oblivious to the concerns of others."
Yet modern France struggles with similar identity issues as its European Union neighbors.