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...play politicians. We hobnob at the Institute of Politics and recruit our friends to manage our bids for the Undergraduate Council, imagining some not so distant future when our names will grace campaign signs instead of problem sets. Still others of us play academics, activists, artisans, the avant-garde. We fashion the world that we inhabit in the image of an adult world we’d like to know...
Clearly, there are a number of permutations of the word dork, varying in degree from nerd to dweeb to geek. Even the most handsome Fly Club members and the most avant-garde Advocate artists have a suggestion of dork coursing through their veins. The lush lacrosse players of the Mather 12th floor, no matter how many kegs of beer they consume in one sitting, will still show up in the dining hall for an early breakfast surrounded by abstruse physics formulas. My roommates and I, disregarding our pronounced penchant for parties, cloistered ourselves in our rooms this spring preceding...
Indeed, these books may be a way to retrieve something of the mom's old self. That certainly was true for Halliday, who before she had children blithely threw herself into avant-garde theater projects and backpacking. Then, five years ago, India, known as "Inky," was born. "Shortly after you give birth," Halliday writes in The Big Rumpus, "most of the activities that defined your identity are suspended to let you mix apple juice, deal with somebody else's snot and develop a lot of highfalutin ideas about television...
Lucas, the responsible father, the reborn director, now seems eager to rediscover part of his youth: the avant-garde film geek. So maybe it's not important that the Sage of Skywalker Ranch doesn't spend much time in the sooty real world. He's very comfortable living where he does: in that shiny fantasy world--teeming, galactic, still not totally charted--known as George Lucas' mind...
...started out as an avant-garde director. How did you end up making movies for 12-year-olds...