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ANYTHING with as much publicity and general puff power as the Star Wars saga has received is just building up to a grand letdown. Those of us who were 13 when the original Star Wars came out immediately fell in love with it, dragging parents and friends to see it for the fifth and sixth times. The special effects were then amazingly original. We plastered our walls with Star Wars posters, traded Star Wars cards, and bought the famous Star Wars theme on vinyl. When we became sophisticated 16-year-olds in time for the second installment. The Empire Strikes...
...from the old man who ran the Grolier bookstore and took turns staying up around the clock to read it. Afterward; for many nights at the Hays-Bick after the Crimson was on the press, John Beebe would tell us stories about the ancient epics from which Tolkien's saga descended and about the interningled people and languages behind them. It was the kind of education that perhaps was not available in the Boston of Henry Adams...
...from the old man who ran the Grolier bookstore and took turns staying up around the clock to read it. Afterward; for many nights at the Hays-Bick after the Crimson was on the press, John Beebe would tell us stories about the ancient epics from which Tolkien's saga descended and about the interningled people and languages behind them. It was the kind of education that perhaps was not available in the Boston of Henry Adams...
...scholarly yet venturesome, Miller has controversially reworked the classics of theater and opera on stages from Britain's National Theater to the Opera Theater of St. Louis. Among his six productions in the past year alone are a Rigoletto for the English National Opera, conceived as a Mafia saga, and a Hamlet in London rendered as Grand Guignol farce. He has also made films and TV shows, notably for BBC and PBS, including half a dozen feverish but authentic renditions of Shakespeare...
...writing scripts that were really slide lectures, with the narrator too much in view-"I am standing in front of the Cathedral of X, which you cannot see because I am standing in front of it." It was also felt that Clark's image of history as a saga of noble names and sublime objects without much regard for the shaping forces of economics or Realpolitik was, to say the least, archaic...