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...might have made had he lived into the 1980s, an entrancing combination of pure cinematic movement, good-humored lack of pretense and allusive fantasy. And he has been collaborating with the man who is Disney's logical successor. For with the old master, George Lucas shares certain values - Wasp, smalltown, morally conservative - and certain talents - for technological innovation, cost-conscious super vision of team creative effort and responsible merchandising of motion picture offshoots. Lucas also holds to Disney's vision of a community of creative film makers living and working together in a Utopian atmosphere. The Disney studio...
Although in general the clubs are not discriminatory. Finnie admits that achieving racial integration is a problem. The clubs "represent a tradition that is WASP and elite, which most Blacks are averse to." Finnie says, adding that many Blacks feel pressure from other Blacks not to join clubs. Anti-Semitism in the Bicker system seems, however to have disappeared, Finnie says...
...Sorbonne and washes her face every day with Ivory soap. His voice swoops into baritone breathiness as thoughts pop into his character's mind with the urgency of revelation. Hers is the voice of well-bred reason-behind every line of dialogue there's a Wasp sting. Each actor built a solid reputation in off-Broadway theater; the first film for each was a sophisticated sci-fi horror show (Altered States for Hurt, Alien for Weaver) that exploited the performer's patrician features and willful wit. Now the makers of Eyewitness have conspired to play these...
...hesitant about breeding them; after a sexual encounter, one of the behemoths often succumbs to la grande mort. Most animals, Wallace relates, accept occasional rejections. But some take them quite seriously, and no one, even in a Woody Allen movie, is more tragically affected than the male solitary wasp. He enthusiastically copulates for as long as several days. But when the female signals that she has had enough by turning away, he makes no amends or entreaties. His biological function fulfilled, he dies...
...perfect free market economy. Compare the benefits of segregation--freedom to hate as one wishes--with its disadvantages. Grab some passing minority-group member by the elbow, and ask if he'd enjoy living in a system that guaranteed his political freedom but allowed some rich white WASP to, say, exclude him from Harvard...