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...fact, as Lucas has said many times, he laid out the story for the entire saga in the early 70s, when another American military engagement was turning sour. Thus Palpatine was more Nixon than Bush, and the slaughter of the innocents in the Jedi Temple is an echo of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam...
...more readily sell the movie to a global audience." But that global audience is us. Studios wouldn't spend so much money making and marketing these familiar products if we weren't buying. Summer has long been our most escapist season, when we kick sand in reality's sour face and swim in the fantasy that movie magic makes so persuasive. What has changed in the past few years is that instead of escaping into novelty (that shark! that spaceship! that dinosaur!), we now flee to the familiar. Perhaps it's because the repetition of a fairy tale...
...leans into her literature textbook, pen in hand and 7-11 coffee at her side. She just finished up Machiavelli’s “The Prince,” which applies beautifully to her failed relationships with men—the latest a classic hook-up gone sour. “He basically understands man as what we all are,” she says, looking up from her textbook. “We all make mistakes. But how we deal with it is the way of a fox or a beast...
Before the weather turned sour Saturday afternoon, Princeton and Yale showed up on the Charles River with every intention of raining on Harvard’s parade...
...average Russian about Boris Yeltsin’s “shock therapy” approach to privatization in the early 1990s, and you’ll get anything from a sour frown to a brief sampling of the more colorful metaphors Russians use to describe the activities those they don’t like perform on their mothers...