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...bother, about Willow's chase through the forest (done better in Return of the Jedi), the impromptu ride down a mountain on a warrior's shield (done better in The Living Daylights), on the whole tussle of light and dark. The only twist here is that the crucial tug of wills is between two women, the good witch and the bad, over a female messiah. One matriarch fights another in an apocalyptic biddy...
...equally, is the power of the human mind to absorb, assimilate and assort all these phenomena. "Odd that a thing is most itself when likened," writes Wilbur, extolling the ability of language, metaphors, similes to capture the spectacle of reality. Even then, abstractions can be unsettled by the tug of the here and now. A bluefish swims beneath...
...their skating tug-of-pulchritude, Katarina Witt and Debi Thomas bared their claws and other whatnot. Referring to no one in particular, Witt observed, "I think every man prefers looking at a well-built woman to someone else who is the shape of a rubber ball." Thomas declared, "I think I have a great body." But the silly argument dissolved into stark drama. Thomas stumbled to a stunned third and Witt...
...groups participating in this political tug of war includes the student workers themselves. Since Gary Hart's presidential drive emphasizes "new ideas" and appeals for student activism, young people play key roles in shaping the candidate's policies, supporters say. Alan Khazei '83, resident scholar in law and public service at Currier House is a long-time Hart supporter. He coordinated 15 percent of the precincts in New Hampshire for Hart's 1984 victory and now works as a speechwriter and organizer in the newly revitalized drive...
DESCRIPTION: strength of George Bush and Robert Dole among likely Republican voters nationwide and in Iowa. Color illustration: Red and purple elephants in tug...