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...robots do against the dark, illimitable powers of the Galactic Empire? A universe of plenty-as audiences can discover beginning this week in Star Wars, a grand and glorious film that is the best movie of the year so far. Star Wars is a combination of Flash Gordon, The Wizard of Oz, the Errol Flynn swashbucklers of the '30s and almost every western ever screened...
...remarkable number of whom were festooned with Minolta cameras and crowned with Sony Walkman headsets, must have had doubts. Protest is an industry, organized, priced, packaged and advertised, for maximum impact, on the Capitol Mall. Since the rhetoric of campaign politics portrays the President-to-be as a supercolossal wizard for everything that anybody ever wanted, it is logical that the protest industry should focus blame on him for everything that anybody couldn...
...Easter Bunny at the White House egg roll? Was she a Munchkin? If so, did that mean the President was the Wizard of Oz? Was his daughter, who was brought into the fray, in any way like a 600-pound gorilla? And where was Ursula Meese? Such was the level of debate last week over the Administration's approach to ending discrimination against women...
Honegger came out swinging at a press conference called by her new-found allies in the women's movement. "This is the Munchkin with the Wizard of Oz," she said, holding up a dignified picture of herself at the White House with the President. And to set the record straight, she said that Ursula Meese, wife of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, had been the Easter Bunny at the egg roll. So she had; Honegger's turn as a bunny was in a staff picture taken to cheer Press Secretary James Brady after he was shot during the assassination...
That woman is Agnes Nixon, 55, the acknowleged doyenne of daytime drama, the wizard of such ongoing washboard weepers as One Life to Live, Search for Tomorrow, All My Children, Another World, As the World Turns and The Guiding Light, each of which she either created or once served as head writer. And now there is the freshly minted college town of Corinth, the setting for Loving, ABC's first new soap opera in eight years and Nixon's first new soap in 13. Loving, which airs daily at 11:30 a.m. E.D.T., is only five weeks...