Word: arrays
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...field. Tatooine, for example, is much like the arid planet Arrakis in Frank Herbert's famed Dune trilogy; that resemblance carries even to the skeleton of one of Herbert's giant sand snakes in the background of a Tatooine scene. The barroom sequence, with its remarkable array of extraterrestrial freaks, is reminiscent of scenes written by Robert Heinlein and Samuel Delaney. But as Lucas and Producer Kurtz quickly point out, Star Wars is not science fiction but space fantasy. "Space fantasy allows you more rein to say what you want to say," explains Kurtz. "So that...
...Camaro, eats junk food, wears sneakers, jeans, and baggy Shetland sweaters. His main residence is still a small house in the San Francisco suburb of San Anselmo. He and Marcia also own a work pad in Beverly Hills. When they are there, the banister is covered with an array of jeans and corduroy trousers -the working outfit for both husband and wife...
Watergate was just an example of high-level political skulduggery, and probably a lot more like it has taken place without ever having been brought to light. If all the dirty political pots were to call the kettles black, we'd have quite an array of messy kitchen ware...
...wonderful elan, a sense that anything is possible. That deep urge for individual adventure remains. Sometimes it merely involves robust hobbies - banging down white-water canyons in rubber rafts, hang gliding on the thermal currents, roping up the faces of cliffs. But beyond weekend diversion, there remains a vast array of exploration and adventure. It ranges, says Apollo 9 Astronaut Russell ("Rusty") Schweickart, "from the massive NASA kind of exploration to some intermediary type, such as Jacques Cousteau's efforts, where there is no question that the driving force is a single individual, all the way to individual exploration...
...show, talking energy policy with Johnny Carson? Perhaps, if the Carter Administration has its way. Administration publicists are well aware that President Carter can push his energy program through Congress only if he builds a surge of popular support to sweep away the logrolling opposition of an extraordinarily broad array of special-interest groups. So they are planning a selling campaign going well beyond the usual. As one part, efforts are already under way to obtain bookings for Administration officials-as yet unannounced-to explain the program, not only on the familiar interview shows such as Face the Nation, Meet...