Word: superhuman
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...role elucidating Eleanor's fragile inner workings, and the sheer force of her performance sets her apart from the other players. Gasser's performance as Eleanor and Kim Shaw's portrayal of Agnes, the former wife of the dead Albert, are also very good. But not even superhuman acting could save Nichols' gimmicky and cliched script...
Instead of admitting to his little outburst of normality, Reagan and his staff sought to maintain his superhuman status. Just as he tries to fool the country with fountain-of-youth hair color and make-up, the 75-year-old chief set out to snow the public by denying he had ever uttered the phrase...
...Sweetser performed the near-superhuman task by surging past the Yale swimmer in the race's final moments to give Harvard a victory in the event and a 75-65 triumph overall against the high-flying Eli, sending a highly-partisan capacity crowd of 2000 home dissapointed...
...punish the seemingly invincible Drago, and various cries of "Kill him!" escape from alleged human beings. Rocky (and Stallone), I think, is no longer "da bum from Philly who don't talk too good." The audience really believes this cartoon of men named after Greek myths who have superhuman strengths and superhuman purposes. Stallone/Rocky no longer plays the aspiring Sigfried. He is no Wotan himself entering the Valhalla of mass popularity...
Celeste also jetted to Washington to get help from federal banking authorities. Edwin Gray, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which oversees the FSLIC, promised Celeste "an unprecedented, superhuman effort" to complete the paperwork necessary to bring as many as possible of the closed Ohio thrifts under federal insurance. Fed Chairman Volcker also pledged support. Said he: "The job now is to get the institutions opened rapidly and in an orderly fashion so that we don't have a repetition of the situation...