Word: wanly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cultural distance may also contribute to another problem many refugees cite--the difficulties they face in finding academic positions in America. Ta Wan Tai, a research associate at the Law School who came from Vietnam in 1975, says the only way a foreign scholar can get a permanent appointment is through the regular tenure route. At "a university of the highest prestige" like Harvard, he adds, "one scholar cannot easily carve out a niche...
...will be altogether different in look and tone from the existing trilogy, says Lucas. They will be more melodramatic, showing the political intrigue and Machiavellian plotting that led to the downfall of the once noble Republic. They will have only enough outward action to keep the plot moving. Obi-Wan Kenobi, the elderly Jedi who was played by Alec Guinness in the Star Wars series, and Darth Vader will be seen as younger men, while Luke Skywalker may make a brief appearance as a baby in Episode...
...considerably vaguer. Their main theme will be the necessity for moral choices and the wisdom needed to distinguish right from wrong. There was never any doubt in the films already made; in those the lines were sharply drawn, comic-book-style. Luke, who will then be the age Obi-Wan Kenobi is now, some place in his 60s, will reappear, and so will his friends, assuming that the creator decides to carry the epic further. Hamill and the others will get first crack at the roles-if they look old enough...
...seeks to eliminate in Kampuchea the last remnants of Chinese influence in the region. To counter the Soviet presence, China backs the Sihanouk-led coalition of rebels who oppose the puppet government of Heng Samrin that Viet Nam installed in Kampuchea in 1979. China's Vice Premier Wan Li expressed his support directly to Sihanouk in a meeting in Peking last week. The Chinese have given him $100,000, Sihanouk said, to be divided among the three factions of the coalition opposed to Viet Nam's occupation of Kampuchea...
...escape it. They can arc not only out of a place but out of a time. They fly in a couple of hours from one season to another: from Chicago's December, say, to Florida's moral equivalent of high summer. Then they fly back into the wan, smudged month that they left, and they are tan. In deep winter, they are exotics walking among all those gray faces at lunchtime like Queequeg on-the streets of Nantucket...