Word: darth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inside play was physical all night. At one point in the first half, it caused junior Fred Scott (five points, nine rebounds) and Cornell's Darth Vaughn to get into a staring match in the first half...
After all, our President labeled them the "evil empire" on national TV. It was as if Darth Vader was calling the shots in the Kremlin...
What was that bizarre sight in San Francisco Bay last week? Darth Vader's helmet? A movie prop for Batman III? No, the vessel steaming across the water on a test mission was Sea Shadow, a 160-ft., 560-ton, welded-steel catamaran that is the latest thing in Navy technology: a Stealth ship. Designed by the same Lockheed "skunk works" that built the F-117A Stealth fighter, the ship has sloping angles and a special coating designed to make it nearly invisible to enemy sonar and radar. Such stealthy boats might someday guard the perimeter of carrier groups, covertly...
Admittedly, this last indignity could not be prevented. But even the inspired Handel- Halvorsen encore was not immune; an unseen machine producing a sound very much like Darth Vader's breathing, amplified thousands of times, broke the trancelike atmosphere...
...from a sound system clearly meant to emulate its subject and raise the dead. On the 72-ft. by 52-ft. stage in front of the film, 12 barefoot Apostles in russet rags were running away from a dwarf wielding a big, white feather and Roman soldiers dressed like Darth Vader. Across the arena, in a distracting reminder of secularity, a vast glowing sign touted the spirituous appeal of Bud Light. At the audience's feet lay crumbs from loaves passed, in keeping with the biblical parable, by dewy- eyed cast members. "Share," they intoned as they pulled the bread...