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...plan works, it won't be the first time Lee has remade his trade. Before Lee, being a superhero was pretty straightforward: good was good, evil was evil, and neither was very self-aware. But Lee conceptualized characters, like the Hulk and the Thing, who were literally uncomfortable in their own skins, reluctant superheroes who didn't always feel or act nobly. For his creations, being a superhero was a job; one Spider-Man found Spidey trying unsuccessfully to cash a check in his name (no id). With humor and an ear for the vernacular ("It's clobberin' time...
...admit I'm concerned about that one. The wealth effect of the sky-high market has been a wonder drug. Plunging share prices would erode people's security and sap consumer confidence. It could, well, kill me. On the bright side, though, I've got a better health plan than the President. Dr. Greenspan has an interest-rate antidote for every bug I catch. He gave me a quarter-point injection last week, and I expect two more by spring. They're painful but usually effective...
ANALYSIS Independent voters here might just as well throw their vote away. The primary is ostensibly open, but when it comes to awarding delegates, Democrats and Republicans alike plan to count only the votes of registered party members. The overall vote results are thus a nonbinding "beauty contest...
CAMPING WITH KIDS It's not too early to plan your family's summer vacation, especially if you'd like to be among the 291 million people who will visit America's national parks this year. February's Sesame Street Parents magazine has done some of the homework for you--studying safety, quality and variety of attractions--and has come up with six top family-friendly parks: Acadia, Cape Hatteras, Crater Lake, Great Smoky Mountains, Rocky Mountain and Yosemite. Log on to www.sesame.org/parents/ and search the site for more vacation tips...
Many years ago, Lyle (Jeff Bridges) and Vinnie (Nick Nolte) pulled a complicated race-track scam. It made the former rich, the latter guilt-ridden. Unaware of the statute of limitations, Vinnie now belatedly launches into a more muddled plan of blackmail and retribution, requiring the complicity of the chief victim of the original crime (Albert Finney), who has made slightly pretentious peace with the past. Derived from a not-very-successful Sam Shepard play, this is a shaggy, overstuffed film. But the actors (including Sharon Stone as Lyle's drunken wife and Catherine Keener as a wise innocent...