Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this week's cover stories on Return of the Jedi, the third installment of the Star Wars saga, San Francisco Correspondent Dick Thompson crossed the Golden Gate Bridge to San Rafael to explore the mysteries of the film's wondrous special effects in, of all places, a common cinder-block warehouse. There, and at a similar illusion factory in Van Nuys, Calif., Han Solo's Millennium Falcon spaceship first blasted into hyperspace, and E.T., C-3PO, R2-D2 and Jedi's furry Ewoks were born. Says Thompson, who has reported stories for TIME on subjects ranging...
...quarter of Jedi's budget, $8 million, went into special effects, most of which were shot at Industrial Light and Magic, a division of Lucasfilm, in Marin County, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. The model shop made everything from the Death Star to Han Solo's saucer-shaped Millennium Falcon, and the optical department made its models look as if they were both big and in movement. Most of the flying objects in Jedi were really stationary, and the camera did all the moving...
...losers are the people of southern Wyoming, whose representatives are suing to keep train service there, and the nostalgic, who recently thronged at the gate for one last westward roll. The smell of bacon lay heavy on the morning air, spreading from a car with the name "Silver Banquet" flung back along its flank. "It is truly the last one," said Steve Patterson, a locomotive engineer with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and a man who rides the Zephyr mostly just to eat. "All the other passenger trains anywhere you go in this country all look alike. I call...
...nickname of "the Mugger." Even in the post parade leading up to a race, the pony escort is not safe alongside, and neither is the pony girl holding Marfa's bridle. The brute might reach over and savage them. When all 20 Derby horses were in the gate, every pair of binoculars was fixed on the 18th post position to see Marfa crash...
...Gate, for example, is lavishly furnished, with a mirrored interior and leather couches. The students--chatting there support the image of Brown as the "friendly school" and most of them cite this as another deciding factor in their choice of schools...