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...Marvel Comics fan knows, climbing the 1,454 ft. west face of Chicago's Sears Tower is a job for Spider-Man. Still, early-morning crowds outside the world's tallest building last week were amazed to see, high above them, Professional Stuntman Daniel Goodwin, 25, decked out in the bright red-and-blue costume of that nimble comic-book hero. With 40-m.p.h. winds whipping around him and 50 Ibs. of climbing equipment on his back, Goodwin made the ascent in some 7½ hrs. He hoisted himself on metal hooks that he wedged into the slots...
...story could be floated in about four comic-strip balloons. Lex Luthor (an agreeably tuned-down Gene Hackman only briefly abetted by Ned Beatty) is still egocentrically on hand. But he is pretty much a bench warmer for the forces of darkness. The heavyweight heavies now are Zod, Ursa and Non (an unrecognizable Terence Stamp, Sarah Douglas and Jack O'Halloran), whom experts in yesterday's trivia will recall as the trio of traitors the good folks of Krypton compressed to the proportions of a flat rock and sent skimming over the ocean of space at the beginning...
Despite all of its contrived social standards and comic unreality, undergraduate life is a pleasant memory for most members of the Class of '56. Alumnae fondly remember what one calls "the last years of liberal education, merely for the sake of education." Another cherishes the long-term friendships discovered on leisurely walks around the small quadrangle up Garden St., even though she realized later that "Radcliffe had done little to prepare me for theworld." With marriage as the primary goal in 1956, most recall looking back on the previous four years with a feeling of satisfaction. Merle M. Bowser made...
...this discontinuity between the image he desperately wants to project and a reality that is considerably less grand, Richard Pryor has created, in such otherwise indifferent movies as Silver Streak and Stir Crazy, what may be the current screen's most appealing comic persona. His style may come from the ghetto, but his screen character is an everyman offering a sometimes poignant, but always funny, commentary on male fantasies of knowledgeability and bravado...
...male sensibility. Cariou's philanderer is troubled by the directions in which his sexuality has driven him, puzzled by the ways in which marriage has ill used his wife as well as himself. Weston's worrier is rich and touching as it becomes clear that his comic fussings over his diet and his money are a way of raging against the dying of the light. Alda is perhaps hardest on the man he plays, showing that the very characteristic that has made him one of the country's most popular actors - sweet common sense - can sometimes prevent...