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...comic books, on TV in the '50s and in two hugely successful movies (1978 and 1981), Superman has triumphed over nearly every species of injustice. The villains of Metropolis bang their clenched fists against his chest and go away whimpering. Preternatural varmints from the planet Krypton attempt to bend his will to theirs and end up with splitting headaches. But now, perhaps, the Man of Steel has finally met his match: his own rotten self. See Good battle Evil in a schizophrenic clash that makes for the most entertaining and affecting Superman...
...woman who wears it is fresh and casual, and, although breathtakingly lovely, not obviously paired with a lover. Such a wild flower, as LaMicela explains with a poet's shy pride, might ride her bicycle alone down a country road some misty afternoon. She might glide round a bend, only to find the road blocked by a herd of cows. The cowherd, struck by her beauty, might shoo his beasts away, and she, touched by his courtesy, might hand him a flower from a bouquet she had gathered. Cut: and the noise you hear is millions of women stampeding...
...will not all such social programs cost too much in an age of soaring budget deficits? Others may bend to political fashion, but Pepper never wavers: "I would rather live with $200 billion deficits and have more people living, than the reverse. And if we don't spend the money fighting cancer and arthritis and poverty and poor housing and all the rest, they'll just spend it on the military or something else." In Pepper's view, that settles that...
...region recognize that a lasting solution to the perpetual state of warfare requires the active participation of the Palestinians themselves. By the same token, surely Arafat must by now realize that no nation, let alone Israel, can afford to deal with a Soviet-equipped pseudo-military organization unwilling to bend in its insistence on total control over the West Bank and Gaza...
...discussions of Palmeri and the seminal Black jazz-funk alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman. Throughout the book, he stresses the importance of alienation in the creation and development of art and the plight of those who go unappreciated by their public. But he is severe on composers and artists who bend to the will of their audience and waters down his praise for popular musicians such as Keith Jarrett or Philip Glass...