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...Then came a turn of the ignition - April sales reports from the Big Three automakers. GM led the way with a 13 percent increase in sales. Chrysler posted a 3 percent gain. And even beleaguered Ford's report that its sales shrank by 7.4 percent for the month had a silver lining of sorts - the drop was mostly due to fallen fleet sales to rental-car agencies with post-Sept. 11 travel woes; this April's sales to actual people was as good as last year's. And besides - at least it was Ford's first single-digit decline...
...coming without them? Again, it was the carmakers' optimism about consumer demand that cheered investors: GM now plans to crank out 12 percent more vehicles this Q2 than last year's. Chrysler, similarly sunny, will operate 14 of its 17 assembly plants on overtime in the second quarter. And Ford? Well, Ford does expect the fleet-sales business to pick back up as soon as the travel industry does...
...Without even trying, Hubble had come tantalizingly close to the Holy Grail of optical astronomy, that moment in the life of the young universe when light first appeared. Holland Ford, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University and the Godfather of Hubble science, calls it "this twilight zone between a universe that is illuminated by stars, galaxies and quasars, and the universe in that period before it that was dark, before there were stars and galaxies...
...given to fretting; he even worried that Phantom Menace would tank at the b.o. "There's only one issue for a filmmaker," he says. "Will this make its money back so I can make the next one? With Phantom Menace, we didn't know. It didn't have Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher. It was not a slam dunk." Well, maybe, but even so, the new picture looks like Shaquille O'Neal standing three feet from the basket. Though it faces sticky competition from Spider-Man two weeks before--and, in weeks to come, from Men in Black...
Lucas describes the Empire as if it were the oppressive, white-on-white Formica fascism of his first feature, the boldly bleak THX 1138. Back in 1970, Lucas and his mentor, Francis Ford Coppola, were in the vanguard of the Film Generation. They were film-school grads who hoped to remake the movie business into the art of film. Surely these kid revolutionaries would create an adult, audacious post-Hollywood cinema...