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Daily Life Strategies for
Teens: Daily Calendar~2001 - (Jay
McGraw) "Do or do not; there is no try." -YODA, IN STAR WARS . .
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Dakota Grand: A Novel~2002 - (Jasper Kenji) on his writing teaching/mentor Scott: "...he'd seemingly dedicated much of his little free time trying to make me a better writer, an Obi-Wan for the kid from Atlanta who he thought might have been the last Jedi."
Daring to
Dream/Holding the Dream/Finding the Dream (Three Complete Novels)~1999 - (Nora
Roberts) "...Persistence." Kate flipped a finger from Ali's chin to
her nose. "Pays. What would happen if Alexander Graham Bell
had given up before he put that first call through? If Indiana Jones
hadn't gone on that last crusade?"
Dark Night of
Recovery: Conversations from the Bottom of the Bottle, The~1999 - (Edward
Bear) Tyler asks Bob if he's finished The Empire Strikes Back (book),
Bob has not but has come to the scene where Luke tries to get his X-Wing out
of the swamp and doesn't. After Yoda lifts the fighter with little
difficulty, Luke says, "I don't believe it" Yoda says,
"That is why you fail"
Dark of the Night~2002 -
(Dee Davis) "...Pierce pushed his glasses to the top of his head,
making him look an odd cross between Benny Hill and Yoda."
Dark Tower: Book II: The
Drawing of the Three~2003 - (Stephen King) Eddie
Dean looks through the door for the Lady of Shadows and it reminds him of
steadycam shots in movies. Most especially the Death Star trench in Star Wars,
although he calls it that ****ing crack. But then that's Eddie. (Thanks
to Sir Roland of Gilead for this reference!)
Dark Tower: Book V
: Wolves
of the Calla~2003 -
(Stephen King)
[1] There is a robot messenger named Andy who is described as tall
and lanky and with a prissy robot voice that Eddie Dean thinks sounds like
C3P0 from Star Wars.
[2] "The heroes face
off against the Wolves who wear armor, throw these self-tracking bombs modeled
after the Snitches in Harry Potter, and more importantly, wield lightsticks
which Eddie Dean from our world recognizes as real working lightsabers from
Star Wars."
He points this out to his younger friend and asks him if he saw SW before
being pulled into the gunslinger's world in 1977.(Thanks
to Sir Roland of Gilead for these references!) [2]
Page 233:
"Star Wars, too," he muttered.
Dark Tower: Book
VII: The Dark Tower~2004 -
(Stephen King) [1] Roland
and Eddie traveled into the When of 1977 to meet Stephen King and at one point
Eddie is on a payphone outside a movie theatre playing, you guessed it, Star
Wars. He thinks to himself that if he never see Vader and Luke again,
that would be all right with him. [2] The
firesticks some of the lowmen carry are yellow-bladed lightsabers complete
with the same swooshing and humming of the movies. (Thanks
again to Sir Roland of Gilead for these references!)
Darth Maul, Shadow
Hunter~2001 -
(Michael Reeves) "So the scam transfer went
all right?" he asked I-Five. "For the seventh time, yes
it went all right. We have precisely one hour and twenty-six minutes
before it's discovered and rectified by the auditor droids. Perhaps
another four minutes before they are able to pinpoint the location of the
credit tab and, depending on how busy the local police are, anywhere from six
to fourteen minutes before they arrive to take the bearer of the tab into
custody for the attempted grand theft and illegal use of communication
protocols THX-one-one-three--"
Dave Barry's Greatest Hits~1997
-
(Dave Barry) "The
reason I bring up the subject is that this particular morning I inadvertently
said it directly into the ear of my son, who is almost four and who sometimes
creeps into our bedroom during the night because of nightmares, probably
caused by the fact that he sleeps on Return of the Jedi sheets with
illustrations of space creatures such as Jabba the Hut, who looks like a
6,000-pound intestinal parasite."
Dave Barry in Cyberspace~1997 -
(Dave Barry) on websites,
HUMAN TESTICLE CONSUMPTION: Chewbacca Ate My Balls
Dave Barry Is From Mars and
Venus~1998 (Dave Barry)
"... In my experience, when a woman looks at herself in a mirror, even if
her hairstyle is really nice, she sees Chewbacca. Men, on the other hand, tend
to feel positive about their hair."
Dave Barry Is Not Taking This
Sitting Down~2001 - (Dave
Barry) on Mick Jagger: ". . . He's only a little older (than Barry) if
you calculate it in human years; but he has been living rock-star years, which
take a much greater toll. In person, he looks like Yoda wearing a Mick Jagger
wig. But he seemed like a pleasant enough person. . ."
Dave Barry Turns 40~1991 - (Dave
Barry) " I mean my son is 9, which means that most states consider him to
be more than halfway old enough to drive, and we are talking about a person
who still sleeps on Return of the Jedi sheets. So I am definitely in favor of
raising the minimum driving age."
Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible:
Master the Finesse Swing and Lower Your Score (Dave Pelz Scoring
Game Series, 1.)~1999 -
(Dave Pelz) "...have to go get it. You have to earn it. And in the words of the
greatest mind in golf, Yoda, "Try not. Do, or do not. There is no
try." Good scoring to you! . . ."
Dawn and the Big Sleepover~1996
-(Ann Matthews Martin)
"... three, came racing into the backyard with a tennis ball, giggling.
Beside her was their Labrador retriever, Chewy (short for Chewbacca).
"Ugh! Is that what took over after we became extinct?""
Dawn and the Older Boy~1997 - (Ann
Matthews Martin) More mention of the dog Chewbacca, the big black lab, owned
by the Perkinses.
Deal With It! A Whole New
Approach to Your Body, Brain & Life as a Gurl~1999 -
(Esther Drill) "... I HAVE THE BLACKEST HAIR IN THE WORLD!!! If I didn't
shave all the time people would mistake me for Chewbacca! My arms are hairier
than my boyfriend's. I tried to bleach my arm hair one time but it didn't
work. ..."
Death Gate Novel:
The Seventh Gate~1995 - (Margaret Stein)
Page 287 An old man atop a dragon (in a dragon battle) is talking to Alfred
during the battle and says, "Red Leader to Red One! Come in Red
One!" then, "Break off the attack, Red One...Go rescue the
princess! My squadron'll take over!", "How do you like my
ship?" (while patting his dragon on the neck) "Made the Kessell run
in six parsecs!" As the old man departs Alfred says, "Goodbye,
Zifnab!" and as the old man gets further away Alfred hears him faintly
say, "The name's....Luke!"
Death Without Weeping~1993 - (Nancy
Schepre-Hughes) "...Brother Damiáo seemed no larger than a
seven-year-old child and as ancient and otherworldly as Yoda..."
Debian
GNU/Linux For Dummies~ - (Michael
Bellomo) "... different models of CD-ROM drives, from high-end to
low-end. It's best to get the exact model, such as "The Cheapskate
THX-1138" not "A member of the Cheapskate family of cards."
..."
Deep Breath of Life: Daily Inspiration for Heart-Centered Living~1996 (Alan Cohen) Chapter: Will Power title quote: "..there is no try. Only do." -Yoda (in The Empire Strikes Back)
Deeper: Adventures on the Net~1998
-
(John Seabrook) "To them it
is a black and reactionary force. You saw Bill Gates as some sort of oracular
Yoda perched on a misty summit of cyber wisdom to whom even a lowly journalist
can gain access via the miracle of cyberspace..."
Deep Wizardry: The Second Book
in the Wizards Series~2001 - (Diane
Duane) [1]
"...Oh, really, Neets, don't it's incredibly tacky-" "That
sounds real weird," Nita said, "coming from someone with little
Yodas all over her pajamas." "Oh, stuff it, Nita," Dairine
said. Nita turned her head and smiled. [2]
"...He said one quick syllable and, in another clap of air,
vanished. Dairine just stood there in her pajamas with Yoda all over
them, staring at her sister. "Whales," she said. "Dairine,"
Nita whispered, "how long have they been out here?" [3]
"...or tell the truth-" Nita nodded, looking from Kit to
Dairine, while Dairine modestly polished her nails on her Yoda pajamas.
And Nita stared at her, and then started to laugh, so hard that she got the
hiccups and fell..."
[4]
"... her head and smiled, thinking that Dairine had become easier to
tease since she'd decided to be a Jedi Knight when she grew up. Still, Nita
went easy on her sister. It wasn't fair for a wizard to make ..."
[5]
"... tells you.' Not night like when it gets dark. `Knight'! Do what the
knight tells you! As in the Junior Jedi here-" She went over sideways
again and strangled her last few whoops of laughter in a convenient pillow.
"It was ..."
Defiant Hero, The~2001 - (Suzanne
Brockman) "...don't you just go over there? We weren't really going to
do anything tonight anyway. I can do my Yoda imitation for you tomorrow"
She shook her head. "I shouldn't let you out of my sight" "Oh,
hell. What happened? . . ."
Despite Everything~2002 -
(Aaron Cometbus) "...of vintage kitschy junk. Racks of Yodas, Jolly Green Giants, Huckleberry
Hounds, and My Little Ponys. Boardgames, pulps, mannequins, paintings, comics,
records, clothes, and lunchboxes. 3-D gloves . . ."
Destroying the World to Save It: Aum
Shinrikyo Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism~2000 - (Robert
Jay Lifton) Talks about the Heaven's Gate cult that integrated Star Trek &
Star Wars into their lives.
Devil's Teardrop: A Novel of
the Last Night of the Century, The~2001 -
(Jeffrey Deaver) all
pages are from the Dutch translation novel. [1]
page 15: somebody got a Death Star and a Millennium Falcon as a gift. [2]
page 15: They are having a party and they are going to watch the fireworks on TV
and play Star Wars-monopoly. [3]
page
48: this line: And a Vader fig. Followed by this discussion: "May
the Force be with you. Our mascot of the day, my grand children love those
movies" Parker let the fig stand on the examine table. "I
wished it was Obi Wan Kenobi." Who?" Lukas looked puzzled. "Don't
you know who that is?" Hardy and parker couldn't understand that somebody
didn't knew of Star Wars. " Just somebody from a movie" C.P. Ardell
explained to Lukas. [4]page
157: Star Wars money [5] page
201: the floor was filled with toys, on the old TV there was Nintendo 64
connected and on the walls where Star Wars posters. Luke Skywalker. And Darth
Vader... [6]page
295: Some kid is holding a gun and Parker wants to trade the gun for a
Millennium Falcon space ship. (Thanks
to Sander for this reference!)
Digital Guerrilla Video: A
Grassroots Guide to the Revolution~1999 - (Avi
Hoffer) "Now how do we address this area of guerrilla training? Do we
send you to work with Yoda for a year and promise you'll make better video?
Well, it does take a certain discipline and practice to get ..."
Direct Response Fund Raising:
Mastering New Trends for Results~2000 - (Michael
Johnston) in the preface: "You won't be able to accurately predict the
future because as I like to remember the wise words of an 800-year-old Jedi
Master-Yoda-who once said, "Difficult to see. Always in motion is the
future." But maybe, just maybe, you'll find the solution ..."
Dirt, The:
Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band~2002 - (Tommy
Lee, Vince Neil) "Tommy was in his Indiana-Jones-hugging-a-dominatrix
phase of dressing"
Discourse as Structure and
Process~1997 - (Teun A. Van
Dijk) Van Dijk uses an example from the Return of the Jedi novelization in his
discourse analysis.
Discovering
Grammar: An Introduction to English Sentence and Structure~2003 - (Kerry
Nietz) page 101. c) Inflection morphology: number: one Wookiee; two Wookiees
possessive -s: The Wookiee's hair is very long. d) Wookiee as head of a
noun phrase: all eight Wookies, these Wookiees. e) Movement: passive The
Wookiee helped Han Solo. Han Solo was helped by the Wookiee.
Conclusion: Wookiee is a noun.
Dismal Mountain: An Owen
Allison Mystery~2001 -
(John Billheimer) "... clothesline rope, Owen wriggled into the crawl
space and clasped the searchlight over his head with both hands like a Jedi
knight wielding a light saber. Then he thrust the light into the drain- pipe
and shoehorned his shoulders in after ..."
Document Zippo~1999 - (L.A.
Ruocco) "Another waiter episode: Stop playing Jedi mindtricks with the
waitress. She's HERE to serve you." Page 198
Dog~2001 - (Deborah
Samuel) In the studio notes (this is a photo book) there is a blurb about each
of the dogs, the author says, "You could always tell what Buddy was
thinking. As Lulu would prance by, he would roll his funny, Yoda eyes
and let out a big exasperated sigh, as if to say, "there goes Lulu
again". "
Do I Look Like a Daddy to
You?~2001 - (Quinton
Skinner) "Don't be shocked in the delivery room if your child looks more
like Yoda than the rosy-checked vision of your dreams. There are a lot of
reasons for this."
Don't Check Your Brain at the
Door!~1992 - (Josh
McDowell, Bob Hostetler) Chapter 2 The Luke Skywalker God "Exposing the
Impersonal Force Myth..." Two pages starting with, "Luke Skywalker,
having just escaped from the Sandpeople, stands in the Spartan dwelling of
Obi-Wan Kenobi on the planet of Tatooine. Luke has just learned that
Obi-Wan was a Jedi Knight who fought in the Clone Wars with Luke's
father. Obi-Wan gives him a lightsaber that once belonged to Luke's
father and, in the course of the conversation, mentions "the
force". "The Force?" Luke says. Obi-Wan responds,
"The Force is what gives the Jedi his power. It's an energy field
created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us, it
binds the galaxy together" The concept of the Force, which occurs
throughout the immensely popular Star Wars movies, has a familiar ring to
it. That is because "The Force" is what many people imagine
God to be. They picture God as a faceless, formless "energy,"
an impersonal "force", that mysteriously surrounds and guides the
universe. But that's a myth." goes on to explain that God is
not that impersonal...etc.,
Down and Dirty Birding: From
the Sublime to the Ridiculous-Here's all the Outrageous but True Stuff You
Ever Wanted to Know About North American Birds~1996 - (Joey
Slinger) "...Jizz...means ` `general impression," as long as that
implies it was filtered through the sort of mystical wisdom that a Jedi Knight
would bring to bear on the subject. You might hear a birder say, "It had
a Henslow's jizz,""
Down and Dirty Sex
Secrets: The New and Naughty Guide to Being Great in Bed~2003 - (Tristan
Taormino) Sometimes characters that movie stars portray are even more
appealing, and lend themselves to titillating sexual scenarios-Han Solo and
Princess Leia, Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, Romeo and Juliet. Fantasies
are all about suspending disbelief and using your imagination..."
Dragon Doesn't Live Here
Anymore: Loving Fully, Living Freely, The~1993 -
(Alan Cohen) a quote on the Reflections Chapter (page 116) "...Weapons
will do you no good in that cave, Luke...you will find only what you bring
with you..." - Yoda
Dream Catcher~
(Stephen King) [1] Page
192: The old Kansas Street Gang, the Crimson Pirates with their plastic swords
and battery-powered Star Wars rayguns. [2] Page
570: Jonesy’s phone with the Star Wars sticker on it (how they had all
envied that phone), and Beaver’s jacket of many zippers, and Pete’s
sweater with the NASA logo on the breast.
Dream a Little Dream~1997 - (Antoinette
Stockenberg) [1]
Isabelle's night-light-a black glazed bust of Darth Vader--was on, its dim red
light beaming from the fallen Jedi Knight's eyes and chest piece. Elinor and
her mother had both thought it was a terrible concept for a night-light
..." [2]
"... she could be drawn back into the consuming intensity of his magnetic
field. Forget King Arthur; William Braddock was a Jedi Knight. At the door a
good-sized crowd-for Fair Castle, any- way-of six young men and women stood in
the rain ..." [3]
"... dropping her somewhere along the way. A fireman might be able to
do it. Superman, yes. But an aging Jedi Knight? It made her want to award Will
the castle on the spot- except that the castle had become such ..."
Dream Directory: The
Comprehensive Guide to Analysis and Interpretation, With Explanations for More
Than 350 Symbols and Theories~1997
(David C. Lohff) In the Chapter, Theories and Theorists:
"...Another great example of a Jung story is that of Luke Skywalker in
the Star Wars films. In the last film, Return of the Jedi, Luke goes
through his hero quest to become a Self. He does this by going alone on
his quest. He finds a mentor, the aged Yoda. Yoda leads him
through a training that concludes with an initiation. Do you remember
the crucial scene? Luke is alone in a cave, fighting a black-cloaked
figure that represents evil. But, when unmasked is himself. Then
Yoda prepares to die, having completed his work.
Dream Power: How to Use Your Night
Dreams to Change Your Life~2001 -
(Cynthia Richmond) on finding spiritual symbols in dreams, some examples
were: "King Arthur Myths; Yoda, the wise character from the
Star Wars movies; Jiminy Cricket, the character who represents the conscience
in Pinocchio..."
Dreams, Symbols & Homeopathy:
Archetypal Dimensions of Healing~2003 -
(Jane Cicchetti) "... further than our latest movies, whether the hero is
a super karate star or captain of a submarine or a Jedi knight, the
theme is the same-the hero's journey."
Dr. Who: Dust Breeding~2001 - (Mike Tucker) Incorporates backwater desert planet, hyperdrive, and a character named 'J Binks'
E
E-Business Essentials~2001 - (Mark
Norris, Steve West) "... developed by the Internet Purchasing Roundtable
and maintained by the OBI Consortium. OBI WAN True first name of Ben Kenobe,
Jedi knight. One-way hash A one-way transformation that converts an arbitrary
function amount of data into a fixed-length hash."
E-mail to the Front: One Wife's
correspondence with Her Husband Overseas~2003 - (Alesia
Holliday) "...to grab the cookie box from Connor! There I was,
standing in the snacks aisle in shock, while a crazed Yoda clone in support
hose and orthopedic shoes tried to wrestle a box of Nilla Wafers from my son..."
e-RPG (V2): e-volving RPG
Applications for a Connected World~2002 - (Brad
Stone) on mapping: "For example, you might tell it to scan for the
word Luke and replace it with Jedi Master. The Map directive is no
different."
Eclipse~1999 - (Mary
Summer Rain) [1]
". . . watches us pass by him during the day. My cabin is full of all
sorts of "little people" like miniature Yodas arranged with fairy
figures as though they're sharing an afternoon conversation among Lilliputian
crystal and amethyst standing stones" [2]
". . . peopled by all sorts of them in cubbies, peering out from vines,
sitting on window ledges, grouped in conversation with Yodas, and I even have
a small fairy fountain on my typewriter table beside the computer desk. The
interest in fairies . . ."
Electronic Commerce: Principles
and Practice~2001 (Hossein Bidgoli) "...1982 JEDI is formed to combine
dictionaries." (EDI - Electronic Data Interchange)
Elusive Embrace: Desire and the
Riddle of Identity, The~2000 - (Daniel
Mendelsohn) describing a newborn: "...a yellow woolen hat on his head;
sitting atop his wizened face, it gave him a jaunty air. He looked like Yoda
on a bender. His torso was naked, and there still clung to it bits of the
cheesy white substance that . . ."
Elvis Presley Boulevard: From
Sea to Shining Sea...Almost~1988 -
(Mark Winegardner) [1]
on the Gatlinberg Wax Museum: "Nearby, during
the signing of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams looked like Yoda,
Benjamin Franklin like he'd been surprised by a sudden, heroic erection
digging into his right thigh."
[2]
"... sequel to end all sequels!" one shouted. "It's not Rocky
XII. It's not Superman IX. It's not even Another Returning Jedi. " "Halleluia!"
cried another. "It's guaranteed to break all box office records. It's
guaranteed to break all box offices." "
Encounters: A Psychologist
Reveals Case Studies of Abductions by Extraterrestrials~1997 - (Edith
Fiore, R. Leo Sprinkle) "...DR. FIORE: What are their eyes like? GLORIA:
They look like Yodas. They almost don't look like they can be real. But they
are. They look like a jellyfish. And their eyes ..."
Encyclopedia of Millennialism
and Millennial Movements (Religion and Society)~2000 - (Richard
Landes) Chapter 'Millennialism, the Apocalypse, and Star Wars' Page
159
End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning
of a Generation~1998 - (Tom
Engelhardt) pg 273 "The high tech design of Star Wars moved on to TV
cartoons, to video games, to Star Wars the embryonic weapons system, to Star Wars,
the newscast (with animated space weapons surrounded by the talking heads of
High Frontiersmen, government officials, sci-fi writers, and scientific
experts, and to Star Wars the proto-war." "...lacking visuals,
the nightly news reconceived the conflict in Star Wars-style graphic
design..."
Engaging Large Classes:
Strategies and Techniques for College Faculty~2002
- (Christine A.
Stanley) "... assigning names to each team; e.g., Fortune Tellers,
Soothsayers, Visionaries, Palm Readers, Wild Guessers, Princess Leahs, Sky
Walkers, High Priest Yodas, Futurists, Oracles, Crystal Bailers, etc. Step 3.
The professor will either conduct or invite another person to conduct a
visioning ..."
Engineer to Win:
The Essential Guide to Racing Car Materials Technology or How to Build Winners
Which Don't Break (3747 Ap) - (Carol Smith)
"... assigning names to each team; e.g., Fortune Tellers, Soothsayers,
Visionaries, Palm Readers, Wild Guessers, Princess Leahs, Sky Walkers, High
Priest Yodas, Futurists, Oracles, Crystal Bailers, etc. Step 3. The professor
will either conduct or invite another person to conduct a visioning ..."
Enron: The Rise and Fall~2002 -
(Loren Fox) "...
company's senior vice president of finance, proposed that Enron form another
partnership named Chewco Investments-after the Star Wars movie character
Chewbacca-to buy CalPERS' stake in JEDI. The key was to structure Chewco so
that it qualified as an entity that was ..." (there area 25 references to
JEDI or JEDI II)
Empire Falls~2002
- page 367 a young woman is having a conversation
with her father, she had mentioned one of her friends a Jones who was from
Indiana "Is there any chance we could go to Boston next
Sunday? The Van Gogh's only there two more weeks." "Ill
see if your uncle's willing to flip eggs next Sunday morning." He
paused. "Hey, is there any chance Indiana Jones is planning a trip
to Boston anytime soon?" "Next Sunday" She admitted,
trying not to smile.
Ericksonian Approaches~2001 - (Rubin
Battino) "... Children, for example, may better identify with animals or
super- heroes or fairy tale characters than adults. The Wookie or Yoda in Star
Wars may be perfect as a character. In general, the simpler the tale, the
better."
Ethical Architect: The Dilemma
of Contemporary Practice~2001 - (Tom
Spector) "... retrospective of his work at MOCA are all symptoms of the
transformation of this accomplished architect into a combination of Yoda and
Howard Roark."' What does such a deflation of the mystique surrounding
the Salk achieve?"
Evangelism Outside the Box: New
Ways to Help People Experience the Good News~2000 (Rick
Richardson) "...interest and hunger it points to, just as Paul did as
he looked at the many gods of the Athenians Yoda can be a great introductory
image of Jesus. Truth and power come to very surprising packages..."
Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell~1999/2000
- (J.D. Illiad
Frazer) - A
collection of the User Friendly comic strips - quite a few references
to The Phantom Menace.
Every Breath You
Take~1999 -
(Michelle Spring) "... I accepted. We sat in
a cheerful sunroom behind the kitchen, while the lanky boy watched Return o f
the Jedi in an adjoining room. Knowing something of the capacity of children
for interruption, I assumed we wouldn't have long to ..."
Everyone's Burning~2003 -
(Eric Spiegelman) - Star Wars is a recurring theme in the book, and the scene
that has been posted is all about the narrator selling vintage Star Wars
toys--a hand-blaster, storm
trooper rifle etc,. to buy cocaine.
Ewan McGregor: From
Junkie to Jedi~1999 - (Brian J. Robb) Obvious.
Examining Alternative
Medicine: An Inside Look at the Benefits and Risks~2001 - (Paul
C. Reisser M.D.) [1]
Chapter 'Going With the Flow': "One is that there are new energies which
we have never dealt with before in physics. Second, that we have within
our organisms sensory capacities for cognition of these energies, third, at
some level of the universe we are all connected, fourth time, space and matter
are all mutable. We can perceive events out of our fixed location in
space that's remote viewing. Some people can materialize and
dematerialize objects. If one can do it, eventually all will do
it." "This, for all practical purposes, was Yoda's sermon to Luke
Skywalker in The Empire Strikes Back." [2]
"...Similarly, qi gong, which is not a recent add-on but has been part
and parcel of traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years, literally
brings us back to the metaphysical teachings of Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back. (It may be no coincident that the Jedi master portrayed by Liam Neeson
in the 1999 Star Wars prequel, The Phantom Menace is named Qui Gonn
Jinn)"
(though
the pronunciation of qigong is chi gung or chi kung where Qui Gonn is
pronounced, Kwai Gone...still)
Executive Orders~1997 - (Tom
Clancy) The Command Center for the American Fighting Divisions that are
dispatched to the Middle East are referred to as Star Wars Center.
Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in
New Russia, The~2000 - (2000)
"... giving us complete editorial freedom, and for keeping us shackled to
a wretched and penniless existence; To Ilya Shangin, the Jedi designer, for
his brilliant drunken innovations, and for sacrificing his health to pull
all-nighters with us because we could never ..."
Explore: Stories of Survival
from Off the Map~2000 - (Jennifer
Schwamm, Clint Willis) [1]
"... college students, even a few of the medical
students I teach, go to see Star Wars or Return of the Jedi three or four
times, and listen to John Williams's scores, and buy the posters and books? A
fad, a cult ..." [2] color="#50855E"
"... sheep through the lower canyon, which is grazed to a dry stubble.
Here and there we found what Fred called jedi-bright rags affixed to posts or
fences to act as mystic scarecrows, charming the coyotes away from the
sheep..."
Exploring Leadership: For
College Students Who Want to Make a Difference~1998 - (Susan
R. Komives) at the bottom of page 108 a bit on the Star Wars trilogy,
example: "...In The Return of the Jedi, young Luke Skywalker seeks
to learn the secrets of the famous Jedi Master, Yoda. Luke is initially
incredulous that this small, green creature is The Master and further
disappointed not to be given . . ."
Exploring the Matrix~2003
(Karen Haber) "...Morpheus. Morpheus is Chewbacca with an advanced
degree: big, strong, tough, but also knowledgeable. He's mentor and protector
all rolled into one, a favorite social studies teacher...only with
muscles..."
Exploring the World of Lucid
Dreaming~1991 (Stephen
Laberge, Howard Rheingold) "...hulking luminescent figure there. It
does not attack me but changes into a dwarf-like figure, long arms, roundish
head, like Yoda. We face each other. I have stayed with the situation. No
attack comes. My fear goes away when I experience . . ."
Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther~1993 -
(Mark Roberts) Chapter 4 Opposition to Restoration Ezra 4:1, 24 on good
and evil and conflict: The Empire Strikes Back "... enough to entice
filmgoers back to the movies for the final installment of the Star Wars
trilogy, Return of the Jedi. Anyone who is familiar with drama (or with
Hollywood's ability to capitalize on a good thing) is not surprised by these
sequels to Star Wars. Like all good stories, each film is depended upon
conflict. Just when things seemed to be going well, then everything
began to unravel. The apparent triumph of good over evil did not last
for long, because the conflict, and thus the emotional momentum, had to
continue. This makes for good drama--but complicated living"
F
Fallen Western Star Wars: A
Debate About Literary California,
The~2001 - Nothing to do with Star Wars, but a perfect play on the
words. Description of the book: When
Dana Gioia, the author of "Can Poetry Matter?," published his
equally provocative essay, "Fallen Western Star: The Decline of San
Francisco as a Literary Region," he knew that certain quarters would be
up in arms. Prominent California literati were quick to defend the San
Francisco Scene and wrote articles attacking Gioia. Others attacked the
attackers. The entire exhilarating, sometimes hilarious exchange appears in
The "Fallen Western Star" Wars.
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