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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yavin." The soundtrack of The Empire Strikes Back is a beautiful work, with powerful, poignant themes and the extremely memorable end title, as Luke and Leia watch Lando and Chewbacca fly into space to find Han and the music swells in the background. The Return of the Jedi is almost entirely action-oriented, with the brilliant exception of the dark choral work that accompanies the scenes of the Emperor...
...fully computer-generated character in the form of Jar-Jar Binks, a goofy-looking rabbit-like amphibian who is (sadly) a major part of the film and who interacts with virtually everyone. He's totally life-like and technically fascinating, but he's so annoying it's almost criminal. I cringed every time he opened his big floppy mouth to spit out whatever nonsense it was he was saying. Jar-Jar is at the root of many of the film's moments of misdirection; I guess he's in there to appeal to younger kids, but even so, Lucas...
...enough, probably, for a man who lunches on plain salad and spring water. Whose devotion to risk management is reflected in his wardrobe -- charcoal suits and white shirts, always. Who has been living in the same suite at the Jefferson Hotel in Washington for the past six years, and almost always dines downstairs (and whose wife wouldn't move down to boring old Washington with him). But -- and here's where the line between what Rubin actually did and what merely happened while he was minding the store gets even blurrier -- Rubin's footprints go deeper. By a strange confluence...
...irritation at the prime minister's independence and lack of deference to him, and Yeltsin's characteristic vindictiveness toward anyone who threatens to overshadow him." Of course it might also be intended as a reminder to the legislature, which has begun impeachment proceedings against Yeltsin, of the president's almost czarist constitutional powers and his apparently boundless capacity for wacky political behavior...
...Petty, an old-school rock 'n' roller to be sure, comes off almost as an endangered species here: cornered, and at times a bit lonely and afraid. Still, Petty evokes rock's glory days with fresh vigor on this CD. His voice seems comfortably worn, ably evoking Bob Dylan's articulate whine and Neil Young's angelic, countrified croon. The songs on Echo don't mess with the form much: they arrive, they rock, they leave. This CD isn't a knockout, but it has punch...