Word: semis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This summer, the project to focusing on Poverty Point, located some 150 miles north of Baton Rouge. La--the site of an advanced ceremonial center which has attracted archeological attention worldwide. The structures there consist of tall sloping mounds and a series of terraces in the shape of a semi-circle. Their purpose remains a mystery. The excavations have so far uncovered an estimated 23 million "baked clay objects," round irregular lumps of pottery which look like man made rocks...
...taking Europe-bound passengers to the airport, share details of the trips they have already made this year or plan to. Owners of French and Italian restaurants find that many of their patrons have deserted them for restaurants in France and Italy; Los Angeles Restaurateur Paul Bruggemans, eyeing his semi-deserted Le St. Germain, says, "Europe is the big bonanza." "We are seeing a tremendous bounce back of vacations in Europe," says Richard Roberts-Miller, president of Chicago-based Thomson Vacations, a big worldwide tour operator. "Those who haven't traveled for a couple of years are going...
...rather haunted--by the ghost of his father--who, ironically enough, died while paying Hamlet's father. But Alexander never becomes Hamlet and his mother never truly becomes the deluded Gertrude. Instead, Alexander withstands his father's appearance, and his mother fights for her own escape. Through the semi-occult figure of Grandmother Helena's former lover, the grizzeled Jew Isak (Erland Josephson), the escape proceeds and the magic becomes more pronounced...
...film sometimes wobbles in tone, and there is a certain strain involved in turning Donald and his criminal opponent into allies against rightist paramilitarists. But like all of Ritchie's best work (Downhill Racer, Semi-Tough), the film is full of shrewd throwaway behavioral observations. Sonny, for example, has a daughter (Kristen Vigard) who is a little compendium of spacy teen-age confusions; one minute she is watching porn tapes, the next she is trying to catch falling snowflakes on her tongue. Michael Leeson, who wrote scripts for the TV series Taxi, uses that show's mixture...
...become famous playing one character, he has stepped into a kind of prison. Now, he says, "I'm relieved and excited that this is the end." But Hamill, says Lucas, is "going to have to play Luke Skywalker characters for a long time, just as Harrison played so many semi-Han Solo parts. Mark's a very good actor. Eventually people will realize that he can do something else...