Word: wings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Left-wing education expert Deborah Meier took on five noted education specialists in a panel discussion on assessing public education last night at the Graduate School of Education...
...wasn't an inspired game," freshman wing Brett Chodorow said...
...register Scientology as a religion, considering it a profit-making enterprise that is bilking its members of their savings. German officials explain that it is precisely because of the Nazi past that they are hard not only on Scientology but on all "radical cults and sects, including right-wing Nazi groups." People have gone to jail in Germany for displaying a swastika or denying the Holocaust. And most Germans, 70% of whom tell pollsters they think the church should be banned, consider Scientology a subversive organization. "The federal government," says Peter Hausmann, its spokesman in Bonn, "will continue to combat...
...forget it). I can engage in a conversation about the Trilogy with a true fan for only so long before he or she exposes my shortcomings, such as my inability to recite the names of the fat, scruffy pilots in those X-shaped planes (I know, I know, X-wing fighters) who look like they came out of Somerville's local Dunkin Donuts. In short, I was not literally raised on Star Wars; I did not eat, sleep, and drink Star Wars when I was a kid (Star Wars cereal, Star Wars bed sheets, Star Wars whole milk...
...Mark Hamill). Also, the film grows sluggish at times; I didn't remember it taking this long for Luke, Obi-Wan, and the droids to leave Tatooine. The special effects (those from the original version) range from the sublime to the ridiculous. The final scene in which the X-wing fighters speed through the trenches of the Death Star is so real it looks like it was filmed on location, while the plastic Storm Troopers and the inflexible curmudgeon C-3PO look hardly more believable than their action-figure derivatives...