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...booze and drugs only postpone unhappiness, and possessions do no better. In Anna, an impoverished young man robs a drugstore and gets away wiih a little more than $2,000. He takes his wife to a local mall for a shopping binge: color TV, stereo, albums, vacuum cleaner. Later, the money almost gone, he regrets not stealing some drugs for resale as well as the money. His wife says: "There's too much to get. There's no way we could ever get it all." He replies: "A lot of it, though. Some...
...Called Akihabara, it is a booming bazaar that spills over 20 blocks and is probably the world's most fiercely competitive market for electrical goods. In hundreds of sprawling stores and cubbyhole shops festooned with brightly colored banners proclaiming bargains, customers can buy almost any type of vacuum cleaner or videocassette recorder, refrigerator or radio, humidifier or home computer. Familiar brands such as Sony and Sharp are surrounded by scores of less familiar names: Nakamichi, Denon and Oki. At one store can be found 205 varieties of stereo headphones, 100 different color television sets and 75 kinds of record...
...than to salt his jokes with the rhythm of machismo, carries with it an inner-city demand for respect. Then suddenly his handsome face flashes a good-boy dimple, and out of his mouth comes the laugh that sounds like a happy goose crossed with a stopped-up vacuum cleaner, and the audience cracks up. Very bad Eddie, very good Eddie, his fans love them both. More than any other entertainer in recent memory, Eddie Murphy just plain makes people feel good...
...often in disguise, Han's friends come to rescue him: first that robotic dynamic duo, See-Threepio (C-3PO), the gold-plated neurotic with a proper English accent (Anthony Daniels), and Artoo-Detoo (R2-D2), who looks like a tank-type vacuum cleaner but has the heart of a lion. Then Solo's bearlike copilot Chewbacca, the 7-ft. 5-in. Wookie; the feisty Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher); and Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams), the smooth-talking leader of The Empire Strikes Back's Cloud City. And finally the hero, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), who already has many...
...pathetic efforts, bending over when her time ended so as not to lose an extra bill or two that had landed on her back. Marshall escorted her out of the booth and then, just like on any other game show, took a break for a commercial that advertised oven cleaner or floor wax. But the Cleveland woman's story and her face suggested that all this wasn't just a game...