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...year "A New Hope" came out. I have seen each installment of the Star Wars Trilogy numerous times on video, and when I was a kid I could draft two pretty solid armies from my Star Wars action figure collection (I made sure the side with the Millennium Falcon always won). Most significantly, the re-release of "Star Wars" in 1980 was the first movie I remember seeing in a movie theater and, since that was before the age of video, possibly the first movie I ever saw. Thus, for me, as for so many others my age, George Lucas...
While Chewie never seems lonely, it's difficult to believe the great brown fuzzy animal could be anything but depressed. Sure, he can take orders from Han Solo and Han seems to understand his growls. But anyone who can repair the Millennium Falcon surely has more on his mind (her mind?) than periodic shrieks of approval and disdain...
...this campaign, she is so protected by campaign handlers that she is like an unaccompanied minor on an airplane. As an aide turns on a tape recorder and takes notes, Robin repeats well-worn anecdotes. How her Dad taught her to drive in a Ford Falcon. How she wrote a note to her father asking to get her ears pierced, with boxes drawn for his yes or no answer--to which he added a box marked "maybe." When pressed for something new, she comes up with a story about her father bringing home a cat from Kansas that...
...Atlanta Olympic committee, not commercialism, not even a bomb, can extinguish the Olympic ideal. Some of the most heated matches in these Games--boxing, baseball, volleyball--will be between Cuba and the U.S. Yet the other night, after Jeff Rouse of the U.S. defeated two Cubans, Rodolfo Falcon Cabrera and Neisser Bent, in the 100-m backstroke, Cabrera took his seat at the press conference, smiled at Rouse in admiration and patted the chair next to him as an invitation. It was the smallest and the largest of gestures...
...papyrus recounts how a bored King Snefru had himself rowed around a lake by young beauties clothed only in fishnets. Snefru seems to have had an exceedingly high opinion of himself. Until his reign, an Egyptian king was believed to be the earthly incarnation of Horus, the falcon god, achieving full deification only in death. Snefru, however, declared himself to be the living sun god Re. Khufu, following in his father's royal footsteps, took the title...