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...period pieces have a responsibility to adhere to the problems of contemporary society, then films about the future share the burden. The future will not be as simple as the black-and-white world of Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker. If we continue to believe that it will be--vainly hoping that "The Force" will be with us--then we are indeed doomed to the barren landscape that swallows the blade runner...

Author: By Lewis J. Desimone, | Title: Serious Science Fiction | 7/30/1982 | See Source »

...smuggled him into a dingy corridor and told him. "Okay, Here is every book on baseball ever written Don't go blind." Amusing and fascinating as well are brief sketches of many of the sport's characters--the "Zen master" Red Carew, the wonderfully honest Pete Rose, and the Darth Vader of the Major Leagues, Steve Carlton, among other notables. And let's not forget Hunt Mitchell III and Pickles Smith, among the not so-notables...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: The Greatest Show on Earth | 4/20/1982 | See Source »

MARRIED. James Earl Jones, 51, magnific actor now playing Othello on Broadway, who was the voice of the sinister Darth Vader in Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back; and Actress Cecilia Hart; both for the second time; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 29, 1982 | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

...actuality, neither Darth Vader nor Dr. Strangelove had started his own company. The nocturnal scene was merely a routine operation at the $18 million flexible manufacturing lab that Yamazaki, Japan's largest maker of machine tools, put into production last week. The computer-controlled plant is the closest thing yet to the peopleless factory that futurologists predict will some day be the brave new world of manufacturing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look, No Hands | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...maintenance department working overtime ever since. But the real shocker came in New York, the city of killer potholes. New York's Flxibles began rolling in time for last summer's Democratic National Convention, and quickly became known-for their darkly tinted, malevolent-looking fronts-as Darth Vader buses. They also won immediate notoriety for breaking down. By December the city had to take all 637 of its new buses out of service because of cracks in the supporting A-frames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Anyone Fx Those Flxibles? | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

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