Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...narrative void. One reason Psycho continues to disturb is that Screenwriter Joseph Stefano gave Norman Bates and his hapless victims some emotional resonance. Even if you never screamed while watching Psycho, you could appreciate it for the sense it gave of seemingly ordinary people drawn into a swamp of frustrations and aggressions. De Palma's movies no longer explore these tensions; they have become exhibitions of a master puppeteer pulling high-tension strings. In Dressed to Kill, the marionettes on-screen still respond to De Palma's manipulations. Moviegoers may not, especially those who hoped that De Palma...
...will train 50 members of the federal government's newly created Senior Executive Service, a corps of 8000 super civil servants plucked from the swamp of Washington bureaucracy by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. For 13 weeks Laurence E. Lynn Jr., professor of public policy and director of the Public Policy Graduate Program, and Hale Champion, the K-School's new executive dean, will reveal to their charges the long-forgotten charms of the balanced budget and efficient administration. In just a few weeks the K-School will begin its fifth summer of three-week executive programs...
...monster's cave like a side of beef. "I hung seven days upside down in that snow cave," he says. "I had to do it for both the first and second units-all for about 90 seconds worth of film." Real snakes were used in the Dagobah swamp scenes Once when Hamill brushed away a snake from his dinner bowl in a scene with Yoda, the reptile slithered down the Muppet's costume onto a very surprised Frank...
What he can do is persist and prevail over most obstacles. When he thinks he is right, he is as stubborn as Chewbacca. When Luke doubts that he can raise his spaceship from the swamp, Yoda stamps his foot. "So sure are you?" he demands. "Tried have you? Always with you it can't be done. Hear you nothing that I say? Try not. Do! Do! Or do not. There is no try." Remembering Lucas' childhood, his father, George Lucas Sr., recalls a blank stare when he tried to persuade his son to do something...
...journey of our life. He must go into it alone and alone face the evils that there reside, the dark forces that are within himself. Yoda knows that, and he tells Luke to leave behind his lightsword when he steps into the tree cave in the Dagobah swamp. Luke refuses and in a dream-like sequence soon finds himself using it against what seems to be the figure of Darth Vader, whom he decapitates. Vader's mask breaks away and reveals Luke's own face; the symbol of evil was in Luke. Later, when he battles the real...