Word: superhero
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...troupe performed "Superheroes: An Improvised Musical," which recounted the adventures of the weasel warrior, a make-believe superhero shouted out by an audience member at the beginning of the performance. The success of "Superheros" has made the improvised musical an annual IGP event. This year's musical--about the rise and fall of a band--ran for five performances during Arts First weekend...
...little while last Friday, however, what mattered most in New York wasn't the state of the campaign. It was the state of a man's soul--a man who has often been accused of lacking one. Giuliani has always enjoyed playing the crime-fighting superhero, but he has, famously, been a cold and merciless crusader--a bane to squeegee pests, jaywalkers, homeless people, welfare moms, police-shooting victims and city-council Democrats. But Giuliani's shell cracked open on Friday, when he announced his decision. His sharpness and arrogance fell away, and he was revealed as a man shaken...
...more jarring. Though Sacco hasn't made the logistics of the conflict much easier to comprehend, his detailed, personal reporting does show how nationalism can lead once friendly neighbors to burn one another's houses. And even though his drawings don't offer the drama that superhero comic books deliver, their relentless flatness captures Bosnia more convincingly than photographs or Christiane Amanpour. "With a comic, you can drop the reader in there," says Sacco, 39. "It's a continued image. A photographer takes one image, but a cartoon can show you an atmosphere...
...honest. I still play [in my made up superhero world.] Because that's what's fun for me. I have all the sound here in my bedroom so I can turn it up loud. I live alone and when I get bored or lonely, I make up scenarios in my head and I play 'em out." - Freddie...
...refuse of your teeming shore," she asks for underdogs. Horatio Alger, Class of 1852, spent his life writing about underdogs. And then there's "The Underdog Show," a cartoon that first appeared in the late 1960s, in which the lowest of the low (Shoeshine Boy) transforms into an unlikely superhero--a small, cute, furry dog who spends his time, as the memorable theme song goes, "fighting those who rob and plunder" with "speed of lightning, roar of thunder...