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...Ford's best roles yet, allowing him greater scope than Han Solo in Star Wars or Indiana Jones or the hot rodder he portrayed in American Grafitti or the chilling Army officer in Apocalypse Now. But he is right when he says that John Book is not a stretch from his other characters: it is an extension. Some people, he complains, say, " 'Well, Witness is really acting. It's great you're getting a chance to play a real person.' " In fact, he says, with some asperity, "my ambition was to play real people in Star Wars and Raiders. Doing...
...navy, too, hardly presents a threat to any of Peking's neighbors. Though it has an impressive force of 100 diesel-powered submarines and at least two Han-class nuclear-powered attack subs, China does not have a navy capable of projecting power worldwide. The conventional subs cannot venture far beyond coastal waters and are highly vulnerable to sonar detection. Nonetheless, China's navy has been receiving the lion's share of modernization funds. Its current manpower of 360,000 is more than double its 1970 strength, and the number of Chinese combat vessels has tripled...
...Wars, The Magnificent Seven, The War of the Worlds, The Right Stuff, Strange Invaders, Eddie and the Cruisers and Plan 9 from Outer Space mixed and mismatched as if by a mad scientist in his Late Show lab. And its Japanese-American hero? He is only the avatar of Han Solo, A. J. Foyt, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Christiaan Barnard, Bruce Lee and Bruce Springsteen. A state-of-the-art spaceship flying at the speed of light without narrative coordinates, Buckaroo Banzai is the very oddest good movie in many a full moon...
...fall he was finally given the go-ahead for a 70-day journey along the more than 6,000-mile route that Communist troops trekked on foot to escape Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist army in 1934-35. With his wife Charlotte, an interpreter and General Qin Xing Han, deputy director of the military museum in Peking, Salisbury made some concessions to age, skipping a few miles here and there and using mostly Jeeps or minibuses. The author, now at home, expects to complete a book, The Long March: The Untold Story, in time for the 50th anniversary...
These celebrity women are not changing or challenging the notion that the older woman is not a viable romantic interest; they have simply beaten the system which devalues the middle-aged woman by being fortunate enough to look like they aren't middle-aged women. Ms. Han writes that Joan Collins "had the right idea when she posed for Playboy--to show the American public that a 50-year-old woman can and should be as sexually desirable as a girl." With the body of a girl and the face of a thirty-year-old, Ms. Collins has demonstrated only...