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...1990s. At that point, Star Wars will require launching objects into space on a scale far beyond anything ever before attempted--up to 50 times the weight of military payloads that were going up when the American shuttles and rockets were flying. How to put all those sensors, computers, laser mirrors, rocket-firing satellite battle stations and even miniature nuclear reactors into the heavens, and at what cost...
...shield. Yet a key problem of SDI from its inception has been the weight and quantity of equipment that would have to be put into space. The hardware would vary enormously according to what types of weapons were selected for deployment. It makes a big difference, for example, whether laser beams are generated by millions of pounds of chemicals aboard satellites or produced on earth and bounced off mirrors in space...
Narrating the Saturday night affair will be former CBS news anchorman Walter Cronkite. Surrounded by pictures of the eight Harvard graduates who signed the Declaration of Independence and laser images of sites in the Boston area, Cronkite will tell the fantastic story of Harvard's rise from a provincial university to one of the most prominent institutions of higher education in the world...
Also linking the two banks from Weeks Bridge to Eliot House will be a gigantic rainbow-like sculpture, designed by an MIT professor of advanced environmental design. In addition a water screen will shoot up toward Weeks Bridge on which aquatic laser images will be projected...
...J.R.R. Tolkien and George Lucas! Mythic reverberations! Megabucks! Didn't work. The crossbreeding produced curious offspring: the low- birth-weight Dragonslayer, the gnarled Krull, the sepulchral The Keep. Most 1980s moviegoers found the landscapes of these films too remote, the quests too familiar, the special effects too rudimentary--no laser blades here, just an endless arsenal of singing swords. Nor did the heroes and heroines of these chivalrous tales have much vitality; they were as pure as toothpaste, and as sexy. How could the Forces of Evil defeat these perfect folk? And how could the modern moviegoer care? Only Conan...