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...traced back to the mid-'60s, when the civil rights movement and Viet Nam protest sparked a general distrust of authority. "The unspoken sense of distance between teacher and student began to disappear, and students felt they had a license to behave any way they wanted," says Geraldine Han, who has taught social studies in New York City for 17 years. Han is recuperating from an attack last September, when a 15-year-old boy karate-kicked her in the spine...
...Sally Field, the film's love interest and an actress of considerable skill. In Heroes she plays a young woman who is also on the road to find herself, but the character is so clumsily defined that she is a blur upon the screen. Harrison Ford, the witty Han Solo of Star Wars, fares no better-but such is Kagan's touch that Heroes could probably reduce Robert Redford to the stature of Troy Donahue...
...that's just what New York needs these days--star wars and log cabins, a combination of Han Solo and Abe Lincoln. Oh well, maybe if we're lucky they'll dump James Reston for the Wookie...
...negotiating session with American officials at Panmunjom, North Korea agreed to release Chief Warrant Officer Glenn Schwanke, 28, the sole survivor of the crash, and return the bodies of the three crewmen. Though the incident was caused by the "misconduct of your side," North Korea's Major General Han Chu-Kyong told U.S. Rear Admiral Warren C. Hamm Jr., "we are going to settle leniently...
...talent and the money arrayed against it, Star Wars has one clear advantage: it is simple, elemental, and therefore unique. It has a happy ending, a rarity these days. Princess Leia is saved, the Death Star is vaporized-oh, come on, you knew it all along-and Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Artoo Detoo and Threepio receive the gratitude of freedom lovers everywhere. For most audiences the only sadness in the climax is that the film ends and cannot go on and on and on. It is surely one of the swiftest two hours on celluloid...