Word: luke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instance, his lust for Vim d'Amboise's wife Kathy, a Pocock police officer. "But soft," as De Vries might say when the going gets muddy. His explanation is more involved than his predicament: "There was Mrs. d. wanting me to wait for Columbine, with Luke standing by ready to feed me some knuckle pie if I didn't do right by the bijou. There was Ambrose fixing me up with Snooky von Sickle as a way of siphoning my attentions off his sister. And now there was Vim throwing his wife at me for reasons having...
...located? What treatments have been tried? Do other family members have similar difficulties? The doctor will also inquire closely into the patient's general health, past illnesses, work and leisure activities, even sexual habits. Orthopedic Surgeon J. William Fielding of New York City's St. Luke's Hospital says that he can usually pinpoint the patient's problem from this ritual alone. He also points out that the pattern of pain is itself a diagnostic tool. Reason: the nerve pathways branching off different areas of the spinal cord have been so well mapped that any pain...
Meantime, Luke and R2-D2 take off from Hoth in search of Yoda, an 800-year-old, three-foot-high Jedi master and wise-cracking philosopher who teaches Luke the intricacies of The Force. Yoda--a muppet-like creation operated by Frank Oz (Miss Piggy's human half)--proves a special effects miracle in a film where every frame contains an intricate cinematographic maneuver. The puppet's retinue of facial expressions is endless; his ears alone are more expressive than any of his human co-stars, whose abilities to convey emotions seem to have suffered permanent frostbite on the frozen...
...story line continues the basic good-guys vs. bad-guys theme of the original film. Darth Vader wants Luke, and he uses Leia, Han, Chewbaca and C-3PO as bait to lure the young hero into his chillingly evil clutches. Like its predecessor, Empire provides some genuinely comic moments and some downright dimwitted dialogue. But unlike the original, the new film contains some truly shocking plot twists...
...prospective nannies applying for the position our heroine seeks. No one believes that it really blows hard enough to whisk away thirty mammarian matrons, or even that young women perch on English cloudbanks. But everyone believes in Mary Poppins, fantastic as she may seem, in a way which makes Luke Skywalker's authenticity pale...