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...Slay, 30, and Fay Dunson, 27, have been married only 18 months and, without going on an austerity budget, they have already saved $11,000 toward a down payment on a house. Both work for Xerox near Los Angeles, and they jointly earn $48,000. They take frequent "little jaunts" to San Diego, San Francisco and Las Vegas and a longer holiday in the East once a year. Recently, they bought a new second car; they rent an expensive two-bedroom duplex complete with spiral staircase and a swimming pool for residents of the complex. "Fay is the fiscal conservative...
...hound gloom, Lucas is a romantic-an innocent romantic. That innocence and that feeling for romance are what make Star Wars so fresh, so much fun and, finally, so fantastic. Lucas believed everything he put on film, and somewhere under the celluloid, he is Luke Sky-walker-out to slay the dragon, rescue the princess and find the Holy Grail. Black is black, white is white, and good will conquer evil, at least in his screening room...
Simone Weil died Aug. 24, 1943, in a Middlesex, England, hospital. The death certificate satisfied the requirements of science: "myocardial degeneration of the heart muscles due to starvation and pulmonary tuberculosis." The needs of the law were fulfilled at the official inquiry: "The deceased did kill and slay herself by refusing to eat whilst the balance of her mind was disturbed." Neither statement could satisfy those who knew Simone Weil as a philosopher, teacher, factory worker, soldier, writer and friend. Her mind was not a scale to be tipped between sanity and insanity but a fixed crystal that gathered every...
...study of medieval romances consumed him as an undergraduate, and even as a boy he dreamed of someday helping an oppressed people to free themselves. The Arab campaign gave Lawrence his own modern Crusade, Mack says, and the Turks became the dragon for this latter-day St. George to slay...
...clever enough at fending for himself alone on the island, but human companionship brings out the worst in him. When Friday (Richard Roundtree) and some cannibal friends wash ashore on "his" island, Crusoe dispatches them one by one. Soon only Friday is left, and Crusoe is about to slay him when the black man instinctively adopts the one pose that will save him from the white man's wrath: he becomes abject. He pretends to have been the prisoner of his traveling companions. Crusoe, mollified, saves Friday for servitude...