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When Star Wars ended, the rebels-the good guys-had just destroyed the Empire's Death Star and were giving their two new heroes, Luke and Han Solo...
Well, it took them long enough, but here they come. All the old friends and some favorite enimies have returned to brighten up this unhappy spring. There's Luke Skywalker, that gee whiz kid from Tatooine, and there's Princess Leia, that cosmic mankiller. There are Han Solo and his furry 8-ft. friend Chewbacca trying to get their beat-up old tub, the Millennium Falcon, to make the jump into hyperspace. And back, of course, are the Laurel and Hardy of the robot set, Artoo Detoo...
...forms entirely, as attested by a container fashioned in the shape of a rhinoceros. Its creator seized on the skin folds around the beast's neck to impose a bold, abstract pattern on a powerfully articulated form. From the tomb of Dou Wan, consort of the 2nd century Han prince Liu Sheng, comes the figure of a kneeling girl. The lamp she holds is pivoted so that light could be directed as her mistress might wish. Smoke from the candle within passes up through the girl's sleeve and on into the hollow body, so no soot would...
...secretly, in late 1968. His book, however, is virtually devoid of contemporary sinological research, not to mention eyewitness reporting. Louis draws on czarist-era studies to proclaim that nationalism is flourishing even in Manchuria, though the Manchus have virtually vanished as an identifiable ethnic group, largely because of overwhelming Han Chinese immigration for a century. At one point Louis admits this; at another point he claims, preposterously, that the issue of Manchu nationhood is being debated "heatedly" by scholars. He even concocts a bizarre drama in which the Tibetan Dalai Lama takes up residence in the Mongolian capital of Ulan...
Even by Jewish standards, Lapide, 56, a former chairman of the applied linguistics department at Israel's Bar-Han University, is not as heretical a Jew as he seems. He flatly denies that Jesus, resurrected or not, was either the Messiah of Israel or the divine Son of God, the major points of faith over which Jews and Christians fell into disagreement and outright hostility in the first centuries A.D. (Jews refer to these as centuries C.E., for Common Era). "I do accept the fact that he is the Saviour of the Gentile church. I do not think that...