Word: lucases
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After Rwanda and Kosovo, another dark page of modern history is being written in East Timor by the Indonesian army. It's a shame the international community did not react faster in condemning Indonesia and preventing the genocide, which has been ongoing since the mid-'70s in East Timor. Above...
DK: The original Star Wars was a groundbreaking movie. Special effects aside, never before had the world seen what was essentially a kid's story told with such earnestness and excitement on the big screen. For better or worse, Lucas revolutionized the film industry, making the telling of myths and...
SC: I used to be a Star Wars fan. That is, until I realized what the term "Star Wars fan" entails. One day while surfing the net, I found the enchanting site www.jarjarmustdie.com. Faced with pictures of Jar-Jar being bludgeoned, hacked, served on a silver platter, etc., I realized...
DK: I have a sneaking suspicion that the hype around The Blair Witch Project this summer was as much generated by guilt as by respect for the picture. Perhaps this was inevitable for a summer in which we all suddenly realized we were making George Lucas even wealthier by going...
He had already written Light in August and The Sound and the Fury, but in 1948, when WILLIAM FAULKNER submitted a short story to the Atlantic Monthly and Harper's, steely editors at both publications rejected it. This week the Virginia Quarterly Review, a journal apparently with less forbidding standards...