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...much room for explanation, it goes deep into the story in ways the movie couldn't. Just how did Leia and the rebels get those plans for the Death Star? The radio script takes you to their schemes. If it wasn't powerful enough to watch Alec Guiness reel in pain on the Falcon when he said. "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror," you can experience that disturbance by forming an attachment of your own to the citizens of Alderaan. We've met them, made them our friends...
...were to spend a few hours sitting through a reel of this season's congressional campaign commercials -- a numbing project, to be sure -- you would be likely to come away with a peculiar picture of the political landscape. For one thing, you might easily get the impression that all the candidates, especially the incumbents, are passionate enemies of the Washington Establishment. You might also suppose no one is a Democrat -- especially the Democrats. If there's a characteristic sound bite this year, it's the muffled tread of politicians on tiptoe...
...five-oh; trot out the veterans and the homilies. We've commemorated the 25th anniversary of virtually every milestone of the '60s -- last month it was the moon landing; coming up next, Woodstock. Forrest Gump, the hit movie of the summer, leads baby boomers through a veritable highlight reel of their shared memories, from Elvis Presley to Vietnam...
...represents some sort of renaissance, why is so much of it so awful? For it can be very bad indeed: sloppy, meandering, puerile, ungrammatical, poorly spelled, badly structured and at times virtually content free. "HEY!!!1!" reads an all too typical message on the Internet, "I TH1NK METALL1CA IZ REEL KOOL DOOD...
This does not mean that Kieslowski does not use his visual talent. He steps into Karol's memory on occasion, replaying his reel-to-reel vision of walking from the marriage altar and stepping into the sun with Dominique. Her kiss always ends this sequence of hazy golden light and crinolin...