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Madalyn, who had known poverty in her younger years, began to enjoy the pleasures that money can buy. American Atheists did a healthy business selling Godless books, posters, bumper stickers (HONK IF YOU LOVE MADALYN; APES EVOLVED FROM CREATIONISTS) and "solstice cards" for the areligious at holiday times. Perhaps more important, Madalyn, like many of her clerical foes, became adept at persuading elderly members to leave American Atheists their last bequests. In 1986, when she moved the organization into its current red brick headquarters, she claimed to have paid in cash the full cost of $1 million-plus. Jon Murray...
...that Lucas is defensive. "I like things fast," he says. "That's the way I am, personally. But I still enjoy other kinds of movies a great deal. I like movies that are, you know--I like Last Year at Marienbad. It's just that my talent runs in a different direction." As for Star Wars: "If it was just an adrenaline-rush movie, it wouldn't be here 20 years later. There are other things going on that are more complicated and psychologically satisfying. It's like sex and love. Sex is a rush for a short period...
...screen experience. Some early viewers have applauded the new material; others (the true believers) have booed it. But all cheer when the Millennium Falcon zaps into hyperspace; it is a video game a thousand people can play at once, and a time machine into movie memory. Who wouldn't enjoy being in a huge theater with a familiar friend from long ago and far, far away...
Like fellow cultural elitists through out the University, we at Dartboard enjoy the sort of wine and cheese events that usually accompany the presentation of new exhibits. Fortunately, "Building the Collective" was substantive as well. (Cynical as we are here, we wouldn't dare suggest that some fine fellows and ladies in attendance often shirk the art in toto for the food...
...their carefully cut woodblock prints of Lenin giving voice to the masses through radio, and of Russian people frolicking in the bounty of "freedom" and plenty. So let us leave it at that, the wonderfully appetitive imagery to be gained from a visit to the museum. Go enjoy the workers' paradise...