Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crewmembers) isn't really fair. The kid's no natural, but he gives a straightforward, acceptable read, especially considering the artificial dialogue he's given--that second "Yippee" really grates. Perhaps most affecting, though, is Ingmar Bergman regular Pernilla August (what's she doing here?), who plays Anakin's mother, Shmi. The lines she's given are just as pat and clich as the rest in the film, but the expressive lines of her face more than make...
...turns out, Mother Nature has won again, as the choice of insects has evolved from Norfleet's earlier works. Norfleet comments that "Animals have always sneaked into my photographs. A project on a colorful bachelor emphasized his dog; one on the hidden upper class resulted in boxes of horse pictures...." And, as she continues, "My desire to seek color, humor, beauty, to never forget skies, to record wrongs, made insects a natural choice for the present project...
...were not born when the first Star Wars movie came out and don't remember seeing any of them for the first time. Instead of behaving like a normal media product, the original movies function as a story from prehistoric childhood, like Sunday School or the songs that mother sang...
What indeed? What is it about the "Star Wars" movies that has got so many people so completely hooked? What compels one of my best friends from home to check her collection of web sites daily, scanning for new tidbits of information? What causes my mother (a mass media misanthrope) to admit that the opening day is something she would consider taking off of work for? What drives the guys across the hall to dig around for a second copy of the Time magazine "Phantom Menace" cover issue so that they can get all the photos that were...
...there for me our first year, across the Yard instead of across the hall, when tension grew in my blocking group. And when my mother announced that she was getting married for a third time. And when my estranged father was killed. Her futon was another home to me and my sourcebooks. To divert ourselves from our problems, we would play "Sim City" on her computer--and destroy the cities with robots and aliens as we'd crack up with hysterical laughter...