Word: magically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film Star Wars is not about video games and woozy echoes of love [CINEMA, Feb. 10]. It is a study of archetypes and an expression of the unconscious collective experience of humankind. Star Wars has it all: hero, villain, magic weapon, quest and heroine. We have been rewriting this story throughout time; only the names have been changed to modernize it. Shakespeare would have loved it. LISA BYRD Malvern, Arizona...
...make contact," Robards said. "You try to get the page that's just black with the words and make it round with the words. Then the magic takes place...
...Empire Strikes Back, it appears that he has thought less about improving than about showing what he and his friends at Industrial Light & Magic can do with a few more millions. They can make computer-animated views of Cloud City and the Wampa which look like what every other piece of computer animation (barring Toy Story) you've seen looks like: computer animation. The wonderful thing about the Star Wars movies was that, bound by the lack of technology, the film-makers had to opt for the more difficult process of location shooting and make Tunisia look like Tattoine...
FRANK SINATRA Mia works that old black magic. Next to the Woodman, Ol' Blue Eyes is Mr. Tenderhearted...
...office in 1997, but the choice tells a lot about Madeleine Albright. The 1940s hero-diplomat crafted the ambitious economic plan that kept half of Europe on democracy's side. That world of us vs. them was swept away in 1989, but Albright still aspires to Marshall's "magic and very American approach," eager "to plant the seed" of democracy as he did. She has never forgotten how the people of her native Czechoslovakia, blocked by Stalin from joining the Marshall Plan, quietly absorbed American ideas even across a sealed border...