Word: falconer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have returned to brighten up this unhappy spring. There's Luke Skywalker, that gee whiz kid from Tatooine, and there's Princess Leia, that cosmic mankiller. There are Han Solo and his furry 8-ft. friend Chewbacca trying to get their beat-up old tub, the Millennium Falcon, to make the jump into hyperspace. And back, of course, are the Laurel and Hardy of the robot set, Artoo Detoo...
...Empire opens, he is sending the forces of the evil Empire to rout the rebels from their hideout on the ice planet Hoth. Giant walking tanks blast the rebel fortress, and Solo, Leia, Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) and See Threepio (Anthony Daniels) barely manage to escape in the Millennium Falcon. That uncertain vessel refuses, however, to leap into hyperspace, and in order to evade pursuing Empire fighters, Solo runs through a perilous asteroid field. "They'd be crazy to follow us in here," he says. Eventually, they find what they think is refuge in a city in the clouds ruled...
NONFICTION: Fin-de-Siecle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske ∙ My Many Years, Arthur Rubinstein ∙ Self Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, edited by Richard Buckle ∙ Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙ The Falcon and the Snowman, Robert Lindsey ∙ The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe ∙ White House Years, Henry Kissinger
NONFICTION: Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske ∙My Many Years, Arthur Rubinstein ∙Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙The Falcon and the Snowman, Robert Lindsey ∙The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe ∙The Russian Empire, Chloe Obolensky White House Years, Henry Kissinger
NONFICTION: Charmed Lives, Michael Korda ∙Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙ The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff ∙The Falcon and the Snowman, Robert Lindsey ∙The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe ∙The Russian Empire, Chloe Obolensky White House Years, Henry Kissinger