Word: potentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wookie; the feisty Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher); and Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams), the smooth-talking leader of The Empire Strikes Back's Cloud City. And finally the hero, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), who already has many of a Jedi knight's weapons, the mysterious but potent powers of the Force...
Bigger & Better TV's Greatest Commercials III (NBC) was rated only 28th last week, off sharply from its two top-ten-ranked predecessors. Nevertheless, it was a sponsor's dream, a video scrapbook celebrating the potent appeal of all those 30-second morality tales with happy endings. Among the "classics" shown: the new groom who, after consuming his wife's first meal ("Honey, I've never seen a dumpling that big"), tries to muffle the sound of Alka-Seltzer s fizzing. The show was a form of recall for the audience ("Hey, l remember that...
...Thin Man series. What Taylor's role model was for her part is undecipherable; it comes out as some sort of compromise between Mata Hari and Lady Macbeth. Inflection, which is paramount with a Coward line, is either beneath or beyond her. On a line like "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is," she puts equal stress on "potent" and "cheap" so that the fun is missing and the meaning is blurred. What she has doffed in avoirdupois she has put on in ancien Louis B. Mayer régime costumery, particularly one black-and-white Theoni V. Aldredge outfit...
...those, freshman Lisa Griswold, has amassed 49 goals, just one less than the Wildcats' leading scorer, sophomore Kathleen Kochmansky. The Crimson will look to keep the ball away from the potent Wildcat passing attack and out of the hands of Griswold and Kochmansky...
...foregoing its normally potent passing attack, the Crimson took the ball away from the UNH stallers, and went right to its goal, to its goal and to its goal again...