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...deserves an award, it is Ali; his charisma makes the film. A preacher whose fans are his congregation, he exhorts children to "Quit eatin' candy ... We must whup Mr. Tooth Decay." He hectors in poetry: "If you think the world was surprised when Nixon resigned,/Just wait till I kick Foreman's behind." Some reporters, like George Plimpton, suspected that Ali's smiles camouflaged his fear of the big, punishing champ...
...State Madeleine Albright declared at the start of her first overseas tour that "the Albright Express is launched." The new Secretary faces a challenging agenda. In Europe, she aims to develop a consensus among U.S. European allies on NATO policy toward Russia, soothe Moscow's worries over the July kick-off of NATO's eastward expansion and size up the chances that an ailing President Boris Yeltsin will be able to see an agreement through. Then, on a whirlwind tour of South Korea, Japan and China, she will stress American strategic interests in Asia while walking a tricky three...
Playing a woman can be pretty grueling. At the end of every Pudding show the entire cast performs a ten-minute long, fully choreographed kick line in high heels...
Which isn't to underplay the movie's aesthetic triumph. With its unprecedented blend of narrative innocence and stylistic sophistication, of pseudomythic solemnity and high-tech kick, of abject weirdness and cunning familiarity, Star Wars helped set the standard for what a modern commercial movie can be at its best (ingenious, kinetic, exhilarating). Unfortunately it also provided a template with which countless imitators have since shown what a modern commercial movie can be at its dreariest (mind numbing, mechanical, pointlessly assaultive). For good or evil, Star Wars has been to the past two decades of American moviemaking what Ronald Reagan...
...pilots finally functioning as a team, Star Wars has declared its intention: to be a celebration of communal subversiveness. The Jedi Force is itself a kind of cosmic team spirit. So it's appropriate that the movie come back into theaters to give kids of all ages the communal kick of a big-screen experience. Some early viewers have applauded the new material; others (the true believers) have booed it. But all cheer when the Millennium Falcon zaps into hyperspace; it is a video game a thousand people can play at once, and a time machine into movie memory...