Tuesday, August 21, 2012

A4. In 1983, when Ronald Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a system of lasers and missiles meant to intercept incoming ICBMs, the plan was quickly labeled '_____ _____' by detractors, implying that it was science fiction. Reagan was reportedly annoyed by this nickname at first, but Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle told colleagues that he "thought the name was not so bad". "'Why not?' he said. 'It's a good movie. Besides, the good guys won.'" This gained further resonance when Reagan described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire". Fill in the blanks with a two-word movie name.

A. Easy one -- 'Star Wars'

14 comments:

  1. Star Wars
    docmurali

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  2. Theme A: Wizard of Oz. V.Ramachandran represents the brain, and soon you'll have heart and courage too. Star Wars has plenty of Oz connections.

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  3. Wizard of Oz is yet another musical, but since that isn't the answer, or at least not the complete one, I can only assume the answer you want is that all these musicals were made by the same person. Problem is, I don't know who that one person is! And isn't going to strike me eventually either. Ah well. I'll just focus on answering all the questions now.

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  4. Star wars ? pranab

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  5. Star Wars

    Julian D'costa

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  6. Mithu :--

    Star Wars.

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