Word: solos
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...City, Mo., that summer of Star Wars. I was an incipiently tortured child who had crushes on most of the boys in the neighborhood. That was confusing--to me as well as most of the boys in the neighborhood--but my mounting uncertainty found a clarifying counterpoint in Han Solo. When I was playing with the neighbor kids, I would adopt a sarcastic, daring Solo persona. I didn't quite get Lucas' hieratic Jedi myths or his nearly liturgical lightsaber duels. But Solo's weapons--his blaster and his mouth--those I got. I would charge through our house shouting...
...remember the first time I saw it, but I do remember that I forced my mom to take me so many times that she eventually began to sleep through it. Sometimes I would poke her before one of the more exhilarating moments--Han Solo killing the bounty hunter Greedo; Han making the jump to light speed in his jalopy, the Millennium Falcon; Han doing just about anything--and her eyes would momentarily flutter. I was so astonished she could sleep through the movie that I was worried something might be seriously wrong with her. But it also felt vertiginous, even...
...favorite part of the film was when Solo and Skywalker break into Detention Block AA23 to rescue Leia. The movie is coiled so tightly at this moment that I would nearly burst from my seat. Han, Luke and Chewbacca dispatch the Imperial soldiers with laser fire, and then Solo answers a beeping intercom...
Mann blasted a solo shot high over the foul pole in left field to lead off the seventh inning of Game 3. It was his 24th career home run, the second-highest total in the Harvard annals...
Salsgiver kick-started the output by golfing a low fastball over the left-centerfield fence in the second inning. The solo shot was Salsgiver’s first home run of the season, and the team’s first hit of the game...