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...this week's cover stories on Return of the Jedi, the third installment of the Star Wars saga, San Francisco Correspondent Dick Thompson crossed the Golden Gate Bridge to San Rafael to explore the mysteries of the film's wondrous special effects in, of all places, a common cinder-block warehouse. There, and at a similar illusion factory in Van Nuys, Calif., Han Solo's Millennium Falcon spaceship first blasted into hyperspace, and E.T., C-3PO, R2-D2 and Jedi's furry Ewoks were born. Says Thompson, who has reported stories for TIME on subjects ranging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: May 23, 1983 | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...Jewish American Princess. Jews in America are almost expected to feel ambivalent about their heritage. On the one hand, there is the insecurity of knowing what happened to one's roots in Poland or Russia or Germany. On the other is the desire to take full advantage of a wondrous new world--thus breaking the last link in an ancestral chain--to produce the strange, hidden moral tumult of the assimilated Jew. Add the political movements associated with Judaism and anti-Semitism in today's Mideast obsessed world, and it becomes clear why American Jews are rarely heard joyously reaffirming...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Paths to the Past | 11/24/1982 | See Source »

...better suited for basketball but in love with baseball. As a calm, scholarly child in Washington, B.C., already too stiff to ask the Senators' players for autographs, Kuhn whiled away early 1940s summers manning the scoreboard for a dollar a day, just to have some part in the wondrous events at Griffith Stadium. "That old stadium had magic," he said. "When they tore it down, my world disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cashiering the Commissioner | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

...bred clergyman, especially the Episcopalian, is for some reason a wondrous curator of the lingo. He ascends his pulpit. "God doesn't want you on a guilt trip" he begins, inspired. "God's not into guilt. Bad vibes! He knows where you're coming from. God says, 'Guilt, that's a bummer.,' The Lord can be pretty far out about these things, you know." He goes into a wild fugue of nostalgia: "Sock it to me! Outasight! Right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: If Slang Is Not a Sin | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

...creature. In the 1981 television version, they just stared: the space creature was cut out of the picture. "It was a disaster," Spielberg recalls. "It looked worse than the super-8 movies I make myself." Says Stanley Kubrick, whose 2001 lost the introduction of the star child in its wondrous last sequence to some bad panning and scanning in 1977: "It's a very unsatisfactory technique. It destroyed the compositional elements and often looks like a TV football game when the camera follows the man without the ball and has to pan back to pick up the key action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Shapes of Things That Were | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

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