I would add (writing as someone who voted twice for Clinton) that although Clinton won the popular vote in both 1992 and 1996, it wasn't a majority either time - only a plurality.

Bentsen was old (67 when nominated for the vice presidency) and looked much older. In 1984 no one else other than Gary Hart emerged in the Democratic primaries to challenge Mondale for the chance to run against the incumbent; it's a shame that someone like Mo Udall (who ran in 1976) didn't try again. As for the 1988…

Respectfully, a minor clarification: "The big-screen adaptations, especially Nicholas Meyers’ first two films in the series, have also influenced Discovery."

Yes, there are good reasons why the initial theatrical release of Blade Runner (which I saw) was a flop. If it weren't for people like Syd Mead, no one would remember it. Of course the designers, effects crew, et al. weren't tasked with making a coherent story out of that script - which had difficulties from the…

Big difference between Harvey Mudd (as in College) and Harcourt F. Mudd.

Alfred Bester > Anton Chekhov?

Whether S.M.-G. said that spontaneously, or whether someone wrote it for her to say, one thing I'm sure of is this: A person discovers that he or she is a hero in the moment when it becomes necessary to do something heroic; one doesn't grow into heroicness.

Well, the same could have been said for George Lucas (who hadn't directed since 1977) when he directed The Phantom Menace, and look how well that turned out……

His sitcom Something Wilder was on during 1994-95.

Even if I hear good things about this series, I can wait just about forever to see it on some other platform (rather than pay for CBS All Access). I would assume many others who've been fans of one or another version of Star Trek feel the same.

Personally I don't see any correspondence between the art direction/set decoration of Star Wars and that of Star Trek the Motion Picture; likewise for the much different The Wrath of Khan and its successors - what about those suggests Star Wars?

I recall when psychedelia became the flavor of the day, 1968-69 or so, when I was in junior high - for example, when the Rascals (not long after their classic "People Got to Be Free") came out with "It's Wonderful," or when Tommy James and the Shondells went from "Mony Mony" to "Crimson and Clover" in the same short…

Wait a minute - by "טראנס" do you mean "trance" or "trans"? Or something else?

There's more than one version of "Help Me Rhonda"?

As far as I know, "Silly Love Songs" was the only track that McCartney revisited and attempted to improve (make more interesting musically) with a second studio version some years later: the version done for Give My Regards to Broad Street. I like to think that even he recognized its weaknesses, although he did leave…

Yes, but when EMI issued the Beatles catalog on CD in 1987 - the first time many of us heard the original UK albums, or even learned their titles - it adopted the USA album sequence for Magical Mystery Tour, presumably with the remaining Beatles' assent.

I think most(?) readers here know that in the UK Magical Mystery Tour was an EP that included only the six tracks from the TV special, whereas in the USA it was a standard LP that added "All You Need Is Love," "Baby You're a Rich Man," etc.

I was nearly 11 when Sgt. Pepper was released, and this is what I remember too. The impact the album had at the time was so substantial that it still makes up a large part of the album's standing today, much like the impact that the excitement surrounding The Wrath of Khan in 1982 had on that film's present-day…

I don't think it was necessarily overlooked because of the lyrics - and in any case, the last verse begins with "I used to be…", and therefore it shouldn't carry the stigma of (for example) "I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man" from two albums earlier.

I note that none of the writers mentioned "Getting Better," which to me is an absolute classic - I've grown to appreciate its perfection more and more. Its intro (including the start of the first verse) might be the greatest first 10 seconds of all Beatles tracks.