Word: boxed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BORED. VERY, VERY BORED. Also, cold and wet. When we hear the first bars of music emanate forth from a nearby boom box, our spirits soar. Thank god someone was resourceful enough to bring a radio. We're too tired to wonder why they haven't employed it before. We're ready to groove to some tunes...
...three four...one, two..." For the next seven minutes we listen to audio clips of artists counting to four. When it's over we find ourselves wishing for the sweet hum of New York City traffic. Sunkist boy has other ideas. He punches the repeat button on his box. The counting recommences. For the next three hours it continues uninterrupted...
...what composer John Williams, who has scored all four Star Wars films, expected the first one to be: "a good weekend movie." To be a big success, a movie need only work for a few weekends. It doesn't need mythic meaning; remember that for years, the all-time box-office champ was The Sound of Music. But the Star Wars saga does touch a deeper chord. "George created a transgenerational phenomenon that's still inexplicable," says Williams. "Maybe it's in the rattling of our collective memory...
...about Star Wars is that it stimulates the imagination, and that's why I don't have any qualms about the toys or about any of the things that are going on around Star Wars, because it does allow young people to use their imagination and think outside the box...
...Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo to learn to make the birdhouses and get to know one another. Coexistence didn't come easily. A Jewish fifth-grader, tears of frustration flowing down her cheeks, rushed to her teacher. An Arab boy wouldn't give her a turn hammering nails into a box they were supposed to be building together. She spoke only Hebrew, he only Arabic. The Israeli teacher explained the problem--in English--to his Palestinian counterpart. The boy relented and let the girl have her chance...