Word: yoda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Benjamin R. Kaplan '99-'98 is not Yoda. He is neither short, green nor bald. He does not have pointy ears. But just as Yoda facilitated Skywalker's rise to stardom, Kaplan hopes to facilitate the fortunes of students by becoming president of the Undergraduate Council...
Kaplan's campaign signs may contain jesting references to Yoda or the Kaplan SAT program, but Kaplan himself is serious about reforming the role of the presidency...
...lawn is a sensory-deprivation chamber. The garage is less a garage than a World Wide Web command post. Hiding among the overstuffed sofas and comic- book art in the living room are a video-game power glove, the latest issue of Rolling Stone and a Yoda mask. The dining room is dominated by a psychedelic poster from an old Don Knotts movie. But the master bedroom, which Leary refers to as his "de-animation room," is the strangest place of all. Amid the clutter of bills, floral bouquets, newspaper clippings, medical journals and stash boxes is Leary's deathbed...
...NORMAN MAILER STILL ROCKS BACK and forth on the balls of his feet when he talks. He still leaves the impression of a compact nuclear device as drawn by Herblock--shaking slightly on its launch pad, Yoda-shaped and oracular, although somewhat mellowed by the years. He is capable now of an occasional shrug that says, "Who knows...
...automatically presidential timber. Nixon thought the moderate side of Wilson-his pro-choice stand, for instance-would be attractive to Democratic voters. And Wilson? "He was the would-be Jedi knight," recalls Ken Kachigian, a close Nixon adviser who was there, "kneeling at the foot of the master, as Yoda spouted wisdom...