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Whether Lucas, 36, will break his own world record is uncertain, of course, but he and Director Irvin Kershner have certainly tried. With the money Lucas made from Star Wars, he built for The Empire the world's largest sound stage and what may be its most sophisticated special effects studio. Tricks that were hard first time around were easy the second time, and new harder ones were thought up. Actors who were not sure what they were doing spouting Lucas' Classics comics dialogue were enthusiastic about the sequel. "Star Wars was basically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Empire Strikes Back! | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

...paraphernalia if used in connection with drugs (including bongs, balloons and blenders), and spells out 14 factors to be considered by police and courts in determining whether an item is likely to be used for drug-related purposes. Still, the constitutional obstacle remains formidable: Deputy Assistant Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan, in giving the model but faint praise, called it "as constitutionally sound as possible, given its wide range." In congressional testimony Nathan went on to list the statute's potential drawbacks: invasion of privacy, increased bribe taking, and hard-to-obtain convictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Potshots at Head Shops | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

Most alumni said the book and movie accurately portray the insecurity of the students and their eagerness to fight in the war. "This was a very popular war," Irvin M. Horowitz '45 said yesterday. "There was virtually no anti-war feeling on campus," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard WWII Alumni Review T.V.'s 'The Last Convertible' | 9/26/1979 | See Source »

Even the world's supposedly greatest metropolis has lately begun to sound like one of those boosteristic burgs that Sinclair Lewis used to deride. There was a day when New York City was so smug, haughty and complacent about its firstness that Author Irvin Cobb thought the place possessed "absolutely not a trace of local pride." Yet in the 1970s, the Big Apple, as the city now cutely calls itself, has been larding the air waves so much with a treacly, self-addressed valentine of a song ("I love New Yorrrrrrrrrrk!") that even a tone-deaf statistician might wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Local Chauvinism: Long May It Rave | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...Johnny Vander Meer, Allie Reynolds, Virgil Trucks, Jim Maloney, and Nolan Ryan 2) Larry Dierker 3)Jim Palmer, Wally Bunker, and Dave McNally 4)Craig Swan 5)Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx, Joe Cronin and Al Simmons 6)Chris Chambliss and Roy White 7)Monte Irvin 8)Bob Buhl 9)Roger Craig, Gil Hodges, Jim Marshall, and Don Zimmer 10)Chris Cannizzaro 11)Billy Martin 12)The San Francisco Giants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: And You Thought You Knew Baseball | 5/25/1979 | See Source »

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