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...nearly gagged trying to say some of Lucas' lines. " 'I thought I recognized your foul stench when I was brought aboard, Governor Tarkin,' is not everyday conversation," says Fisher. "There were times when I issued a threat to tie George up and make him repeat his own dialogue," adds Harrison Ford, 35, who plays Han Solo, the cynical mercenary captain of the Millennium Falcon. "I told him: 'You can't say that stuff. You can only type it.' But I was wrong. It worked." The only actor whom Lucas allowed to change anything...
...first two hourlies. A senior advisor was dispatched to counsel Smith. They got to talking and Smith said that he was having a bit of trouble commuting, that he was really taxing a friend of his, a teacher from Buckingham, Brown and Nichols who drove him to school everyday. The adviser told him to work harder and relax more...
...Mediterranean is not north and south but east and west-the Spanish and Ottoman empires caught in endless "cultural conflict." At the end, there is an affirmation of the Annalistes' guiding philosophy: not history tending toward abstraction but "toward the very sources of life in its most concrete, everyday, indestructible and anonymously human expression...
...amazed European journalist noted, "an organization miracle." For a country where snafus are accepted miseries of everyday life, last week's national elections in Indonesia - following a tense campaign in which a dozen were killed and hundreds were arrested - went off with remarkable smoothness. Almost all of Indonesia's 70 million eligible voters trooped uneventffully to the polls to elect 360 members of a new parliament - in addition to 100 members appointed by President Suharto.* At week's end, the ballots were still being counted, but Suharto's military-backed Golkar, a "functional group" of professionals...
DiFruscia offered a more everyday sort of fantasy, "3 Distances and 12 Words (Part II)," for dancers, vido and film. I'm not sure what effect the media contribute to the work. The video sets hardly command one's attention, and the taped narrative leaves a vague impression beside the vividness of the dance action. (Words with dance are curious--the way words make sense springs from a rhythm so different from the logic of dance that they pass by like soap-opera dialogue, which probably is half their purpose.) In the second section, with the projection equipment shut...