If Boba Fett serves as a lightning rod for anything more significant than admiration of his arresting costume and four gritty lines of dialogue, perhaps it is as the embodiment of our third-wave, superpowerless anxiety, which long predates the events of September 11, 2001.

The team ominously hummed “We shall overcome” as they came back onto the field after the break.

You’ll want to repeat this three or four times to get the best result.

Mattresses were either spring or made of old straw, and sometimes contained little creepy-crawlies.