Word: dees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 of a Jedi knight's weapons, the mysterious but potent powers of the Force...
...there is no demilitarized zone. On one side is the "greaser," teen descendant of Elvis, Brando and James Dean; poor white trash and proud of it. On the other side is the "soc" (rhymes with gauche), spiffy as Pat Boone, sweet and snooty as Sandra Dee. The greasers are wild boys of the road, skipping school, making small trouble, ignoring their parents or forced to live without them...
...while the MSU fans suffered some abuse, it was the Spartan players, particularly those of a somewhat smaller stature, who really suffered. Left wing Todd Gardiner, who stands only 5-ft, 7-in, and linemate Dee Rizzo (who is of equal height) earned the nickname "Midget". At one point in the third period, the Harvard fans combined a number of their favorite cheers into one all encompassing "Asshole, asshole, midget, sieve...
...named Lowell ("Bud") McKirgan wrote the Blue Grass Opera a few years back, and it seems to apply to almost all of them. It's about people leaving home and heading north (How did Bobby Bare sing it? "Home folks think I'm big in Dee-troit City"), planning to get rich quick and go back and buy a filling station or a hardware store, always talking about going home for good even as the debts piled up and children came along and roots went down and finally they had to admit that Detroit was a friendly place...
...Camelot, with Richard Harris as King Arthur in the throes of male menopause. Other transplanted Broadway shows will follow later this year: Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July (Showtime), Medea with Zoe Caldwell and Judith Anderson (CBS Cable) and Long Day's Journey into Night with Ruby Dee and a trio of black actors as Eugene O'Neill's black Irish Tyrones (ARTS...