Word: planet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moral idealism to change the realities of politics." However, the only practical solution to the nuclear threat is a moral solution. Nothing is more timeworn than the ancient ruse that morality and practicality are opposites. To deny the moral solution is to deny our common humanity on a small planet and to assure its destruction. Is that practical...
...sweep of Solzhenitsyn's apocalyptic warnings, there was one note of optimism: "No matter how formidably Communism bristles with tanks and rockets, no matter what successes it attains in seizing the planet, it is doomed never to vanquish Christianity...
...maverick space pilot Han Solo (Harrison Ford), still encased in that carbonite, is a wall decoration in the castle of Jabba the Hutt on the desert planet Tatooine. Jabba, a huge, slobbering, sluglike creature resembling a repulsive mixture of Humpty Dumpty and Sydney Greenstreet, is Mr. Big in the galactic underworld. Around him he has assembled the vilest monsters in the universe...
...screen is a mere sliver of Lucas' imaginary universe. Behind any creature may be a little volume of fable or cultural anthropology. Chewbacca is a favorite of Lucas', and he can go on and on about the Wookie tribe. They come from a damp jungle planet where they reside in tree houses and live to be 350 years old. The six-breasted females deliver their offspring in litters. After an invasion by Imperial forces, which may be alluded to in the "prequel," the Wookies were rounded up by slave traders and sold throughout the Empire. Chewy was rescued...
...second story, vaguely science-fiction, centers around Valentine Brodie, a college professor and dabbling sci-fi writer. In a twist of morbid irony, he finds himself amides scenarios all too typical of, the genre he never took quite seriously: Lynx, a wandering planet from outer space, is going to smash the earth, ending civilization as we know it. But a plan to salvage humanity, by sending the cream of the race into space to begin a new, brings the story back to Burgess' theme--the question of just what is worthwhile about humanity and the culture we have created. According...