George Lucas is now not so much a director as chief executive-cum-potentate in charge of a vastly profitable franchise empire in which striking back is not an option.
At the same time it introduced upbeat new TV ads last fall, some of which struck right back at Apple, Microsoft posted 144 of its own employees in electronics chain stores around the world to talk with shoppers about Windows.
I placed the box on the parapet, and pushed it slowly, a little at a time, until it fell into the river, as if it were her, Lila in person, plummeting, with her thoughts, words, the malice with which she struck back at anyone, the way she appropriated me, as she did every person or thing or event or thought that touched her.
The Croatian tested QPR goalkeeper Cesar with a low free-kick early on and he won another from which Everton struck back.
But still it was a day of days, the greatest day of a summer in which English cricket struck back not only against the oldest enemy on the pitch but against the forces attempting to change the nature of the game in the cause of modernisation, some of them exposed in a documentary which went on limited cinema release on the very weekend of the drama in Nottingham.
Revenge is the name of the game in slasher films, though, which means Miramax struck back when Sony touted "I Know" as a movie "from the creator of 'Scream.'" The problem?
Such a rebuke, even if not full-throated as it could have been, marks the rising tensions between Trump and Congress, and between him and the GOP, which has increasingly struck back at him for deviating from its agenda, criticizing its leadership, and just making stupid moves.
But the thought which lingers, after Robben struck back with such nonchalance, is that this reconstituted England are not ready to strike fear into the continent's best this summer.
There's an eager market for songs in which women strike back.
