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...pure evil. He was the anti-establishment good guy. He was sarcastic; he was crass; he was human. He didn't have a weird family tree. No "Han, I am your father" for him. He didn't even have any fun Jedi powers. He just had a junky ship, a blaster and a bunch of one-liners. Fisher recently confessed in Newsweek that "I had a crush on Mr. Ford before it became a trend." If that ship, that blaster and that grin were enough for then-19-year-old Princess Leia, they were enough...
Since the resignation, he has assumed the duties of keeping the Crimson ship in shape until a successor is named...
...hearted or abrasive, as in "Real Estate," a photograph that depicts three insects hanging onto three separate branches stuck into three separate, walled-off areas of plots of land. In "Heroes," three insects stand atop white platforms of varying heights, their arms outstretched in a victory pose, while in "ship of fools," three insects look out into the distance from the bow of an oyster shell, while another tires to pull a drowning companion aboard...
...quoting: it informs the structure of Lucas' script so that Episode I gets lost in a world of juicy but ultimately soulless revelation. Every five minutes a new character makes its incredibly propitious entrance into the Star Wars saga--R2-D2 is the droid that saves the queen's ship from destruction and C-3PO was Darth Vader's boyhood engineering hobby--Tatooine just happens to be the most convenient planet for a pit stop...
...climax, what will that climax be? Will Yoda retreat to Dagobah, will Ben Kenobi pick up Darth Vader's old lightsaber, so he can someday give it to Luke? Such cloyingly nostalgiac satisfactions pale compared to Luke's arcanely scored hatred for Vader and to Han's martyr-ship in the carbonite chamber! The satisfactions of a prequel turn the the Star Wars universe into an introvert, a narcissus...