Word: phantoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard CollegeAfter four years and $120,000, the College is making seniors pay for their own meals Memorial Day weekend. Cheapskates. The Phantom Menace Despite lousy reviews, latest Star Wars installment doesn't disappoint, Jar-Jar, though, needs a tranquilizer gun. Cabot House Wins fifth straight Straus Cup for intramural excellence. Has to be something about the long, muscle-building hike to civilization. Miss Universe Pageant Kicks out contestant for being pregnant. Would they have punished the Mr. Universe on the other end of the transaction? Susan Lucci After years of frustration, "All My Children" star finally takes home...
...last column, I considered writing some great ideological manifesto that would be my parting salvo against injustices here and elsewhere. Instead, I went to see "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace." I decided to use the Star Wars "phenomenon" as a lens through which to examine some of the joy and wonder I've tried to write about in this space this past semester. Warning: if you haven't seen "The Phantom Menace," spoilers ahead...
George Lucas has said on many occasions that he made "The Phantom Menace," along with the other "Star Wars" films, primarily for kids. What has left unsaid is that children do not have to be limited by age: the movie is for the childlike joy and wonder left in all of us, if only we look for it within ourselves. It is so easy to abandon these things as the detritus of a journey to "maturity"; however, being older and "wiser" does not mean that we're any closer to the truth. When we are children, we often...
...front of the line enter the store and stumble out with a signature scrawled across a CD or on a poster or even on their skin. Some leave crying tears of joy. At a multiplex across the street, Fox is holding one of the first screenings of The Phantom Menace. You can see a flicker of hesitation on the faces of a few Phantom ticket holders. I thought I was in the red-hot center, the flicker seems to say. What's going on over there...
...Will take place up to a decade after Phantom Menace (true...