Word: vader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stop Making Sense, directed by Jonathan Demme, was recently declared Best Documentary by the National Society of Film Critics--a bizarre joke very much in this film's spirit. "David Byrne" is a fictional creation as fully formed as Darth Vader or Norman Bates; the movie is more meticulously composed than most Hollywood hits. It could as well be called Best Thing of Undetermined Species. By Richard Corliss...
...sleek, elliptical velodrome on California State University's Dominguez Hills campus, it was the equipment that seemed a bit crazy. An overflow crowd of 8,000 gaped at competitors wearing aerodynamic early-Darth Vader helmets and rubberized skinsuits that were banned in international cycling until 1981. The special U.S. bikes, developed at a cost of $1 million, feature relatively small front wheels and spokeless, solid rear ones made of Kevlar, the material used in bulletproof vests, which reduces air turbulence. The result: a 1-to 3-sec. saving per km. Said Chester Kyle, a professor of mechanical engineering...
What is more, the U.S. would be able to protect itself without the threat of committing mass murder. Like Darth Vader spinning helplessly but harmlessly away from the doomed Death Star in his crippled TIE Fighter, the Soviets would be mightily frustrated in their losing battle with American ingenuity, but they would not be incinerated...
...grudge, a vendetta. It's his dark, Darth Vader side," says Alberto Saldamando, executive director of California Rural Legal Assistance. Of all the social programs growing out of the Great Society, there is none that Ronald Reagan dislikes more than the Legal Services Corporation, an independent organization that channels federal funds to legal aid lawyers for the poor in civil cases. Reagan's animosity dates from the late '60s when as Governor of California he was unable to restrict some state social programs because of legal aid lawsuits. Even after it became clear two years ago that...
...time: "Neither the past nor the future." The place: the planet Krull, under enemy attack from metallic meanies who could be the second front of Darth Vader's army. The hero: Prince Colwyn (Ken Marshall), risking his world to save the flame-tressed Lyssa (Lysette Anthony). His hearty crew: a wizened wizard named Ynyr (Freddie Jones), a sad-faced Cyclops (Bernard Bresslaw), the scabrous brigand Torquil (Alun Armstrong) and Ergo, the inept conjurer (David Battley). The villain: a reptilian Beast who looks like the Alien from the Black Lagoon...