Word: classics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than Lucas', the changes may appear to be more of a marketing tool than a genuinely significant embellishment of what was still a perfectly enjoyable film. Lucas now claims to be happy with "about 80%" of Star Wars--and annoyed with purists who resent his mucking about with a classic. After all, Star Wars is his movie. "The only thing I joke about now is it would be fun--and we can't do this for another 10 years or so--to go back and digitize the entire movie and clean it up. But that's such a subtle, subtle...
...hackneyed dialogue and other familiar staples in "Star Wars" will impress itself on the moviegoer from the very beginning. Much of the national media has played up the Flash Gordon comic book angle in the last two weeks, at the expense of toning down some of the other classic themes and frameworks that Lucas weaves into the film's texture. In many ways, "Star Wars" can be approached as a competent Western set sometime in the quite distant future. Go down the checklist of a classic Western's ingredients, and few items will be missing in the Lucas recipe: bounty...
...caught dead on the side of a note cube. In "Vaginal Davis," "Ron Athey" and "Christopher Lee," Opie presents her subjects before seamless background paper, so they seem to float in space like several of Ritts' portraits, including those of dancer Bill T. Jones. Yet rather than classic black and white, Opie's colorful backgrounds scream in yellow, viridian green, and an ultramarine blue, which matches the color of Vaginal Davis' garish eyeshadow. Except for the tufts of curly green hair which cover his head and sprout from his underarms and crotch, Davis stands stately before the viewer wearing nothing...
Such performances earned Kohler a trip to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and to the Umbro Classic, the NCAA's senior all-star game--the half-time "entertainment" of which was the first round of draft selections...
...political theorist, known for his work on Machiavelli, said he will also be working on a new translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's classic Democracy in America...