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Seeing the 20th-anniversary edition of Star Wars brought a wave of mixed feelings. I sat in a theater surrounded by an audience, the vast majority of whom were not even born when I first saw the film in 1977. I thought the scenes dragged in comparison to the manic action of today's sci-fi extravaganzas. I realized that not a single adult in the theater felt the way he did when he saw the movie for the first time. Not a single preteen managed to make it through without suppressing some yawns. The story of the good guys...
...these various airlines pursue their ever more difficult contracts, what drives almost every move they make is a manic, singleminded desire to push costs down. Executives vividly remember the period from 1990 through 1994, when U.S. airlines lost $13 billion--more than the entire industry had made in its history...
Items up for bid in the auction include lessons in foreign languages, Chinese acupuncture, a "manic panic" hair-dying session, expensive cigars, the opportunity to be the dining hall checker for a day and one hamburger a day for the rest of the year from the Eliot House Grill, according to Goldstein...
...self-esteem, made her content to be "the tail to his kite." She never wavered in her devotion to him, however, even when he had an affair with a young Newsweek stringer in the early '60s. By that time, his behavior was becoming more erratic, the result of a manic-depressive disorder that was treated by a psychiatrist who "did more harm than good," she says, recommending existentialist philosophy in lieu of drugs. Finally, on the day he returned home after a stay in the hospital, Graham said he wanted to take a nap, went into a bathroom and shot...
...best instincts. And that means, in the script by Nat Mauldin and Allan Scott, endless scenes of perfunctory angst. Vance, who has more screen time than either of the big stars, is required to play it slow and sullen. This leads director Penny Marshall into strategies alternately depressive and manic. She trails dutifully after the dour preacher, then binges on cuteness: a lisping kid's radiance, say, followed by a reaction shot of adoring adults going "Awww." The audience is so many Strasbourg geese, force-fed treacle...