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Article: The movie star behind the presidents.
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- Word Ways
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2004 Jeremiah Farrell. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Harrison Ford is a movie star of the first magnitude. Whether he knows it or not, he's also a wordplay star. His name, his movies, and his life connect him, in one or more ways, to all the American presidents but one. Perhaps more than any other person in the history of the Republic, he is presidential, so much so that several websites promoted him for president in 2000. If he had gotten elected, he would have been the 43rd president, and the sum of the alphabetic values (A=1 to Z=26) of the letters in FORD is 43. Some of his relationships to the other presidents are minor, some are major, and some are absolutely incredible. Two important, highly contrasting examples are ...