Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...controversy that surrounds him, there are plenty of reasons for Null's popularity. Much of his health regimen is pretty sound stuff, a common-sense soup of exercise, herbalism, diet and more, all served up in an easy-to-understand style. What's more, Null does not seem motivated by profit. He leads a health-support group in Manhattan and charges nothing for enrollment, and despite fierce bidding for his manuscripts, he often chooses small publishers, and then may defer royalties to help make the project affordable. Null, says Bob Marty, producer of the PBS shows, is "a pretty generous...
Dovey believes this has some historical basis because, in the past, "working-class women had to spend long hours doing [hard] work making the stuff for the upper-class women to wear...
...quest in Hollywood for the magic of childhood. Sometimes that quest was successful. Without Luke Skywalker and Hans Solo, there would be no Indiana Jones. Sometimes it was not. Without stormtroopers there would have been no Starship Troopers. But successful or not, that mad attempt to find the stuff of childhood and put it in a bottle defined much of the movie scene for the past 20 years...
...Fans are essentially interested in Lucas' imaginary universe, but because the magic of that universe depends on the richness of Lucas' imagination, Lucas has to do more than just make up more "stuff." Unfortunately, the point of a prequel is to explain a story already told; it relies on the inertia of another story. It is simply more "stuff." It does not truly enlarge the Star Wars universe...
...need of a good laugh, listen in on some of the arguments between Trekkers and Lucasites. I've heard everything from "the Enterprise can kick the crap out of those dinky Star Destroyers" to "Worf isn't half the man Chewbacca is." Pretty silly stuff, but again, fans have to fight for the honor of their faves...