Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took Senior Writer Gerald Clarke from New York City to San Francisco for an advance look at the newest Star Wars movie, which was fresh out of the editing room. Ever since he saw the first episode in 1977, Clarke has been hooked on Lucas' special brand of magic. Says he: "Lucas seemed every bit as nervous about Jedi as he was about Star Wars. He is a compulsive worrier, a nonstop perfectionist. Maybe that is why his movies are so good." Clarke spent a day, along with Los Angeles Correspondent Denise Worrell, interviewing Lucas and his wife Marcia...
...matured their talents. In his final scenes with Vader, Hamill provides Luke with a hitherto unsuspected depth of personality. Despite its shortcomings, which are relatively minor in context, the film succeeds, passing the one test of all enduring fantasy: it casts a spell and envelops its audience in a magic...
Other laxwomen on the first team include DenHartog, Jennifer White and Jeanne Pierstak, on the second team. Trina Burnham and Cricket Johnson, and garnering honorable mention Ellen Velie and Magic Hart...
...bizarre that world is. As evinced in the story of Menenhetet, a peasant who rises to the post of First Charioteer in the reign of Ramses II and succeeds in getting reincarnated three or four times--ancient Egypt is a land of many weird rites and customs, filled with magic, telepathy and violence. Menenhetet relates his odyssey from a Nile village to the Pharaoh's chariot in the glorious battle against the Hittites at Kadesh to the beds of the royal harem and the Queen from beyond the grave. He also prefaces the tale with a recasting of a number...
...Harper quickly points out that's it been more than just the stroke of her magic Wand that has brought her squad out of the depths of despair and into today's championship game. Sure, the Big Green machine caught a few teams by surprise early in the season, had the fortune to meet pre-season Ivy favorite Penn on neutral turf, and did defeat three Ivy foes by a total of three goals. But, as Harper says, the Dartmouth squad "has played consistently all year. And once the girls saw that they could win, they just started playing better...