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Today, our generation must take a stance and stand united-those who feel the pains of oppression as well as those who, because of a privileged position in this society, only see the oppression from afar. We must come together as a generation, come together to struggle against injustice and oppression, struggle together in a way which will mark a regeneration of the principles on which this country was formed. I hope that the young people who come together in such a struggle will be as various and diverse as our country is. Our legacy is too broad...
Other characters are the stereotypes of science fiction stories deliberately overturned. The lab assistant, usually a mousily intelligent character who worships the Professor from afar, is here the dumbest blonde on film and never wears a lab coat. Because she has a heart of gold and sleeps with the Doctor without making a big fuss, she gets her man. Dr. Frankenstein's fiancee is gorgeous, but a fastidious prude--until she falls madly in love with the monster. The monster, hideous and despised by human society, becomes a sex symbol. Peter Boyle, as the monster, has eyes that say everything...
...trying to see from afar. A body was rolling on the ground, and a man was bent over it, beating it. Three or four policemen and two or three passersby looked on indifferently. The woman shouted, writing on the ground....I was beside myself....'Can't four men handle a woman,'I said, 'must they beat her?' I was impressed with the apathy of the spectators. They were ordinary people. 'Don't get angry, Mister,' someone said, 'she's a whore'....The woman was obviously now going through a fit of hysterics. As they were taking her to the police...
After the funeral in Hyde Park, N.Y., when the crowd had drifted away and workmen were shoveling dirt onto the coffin, Eleanor Roosevelt turned around and walked back alone toward the grave of her husband. A distance from it, she stopped. For a while she stood there, watching from afar, saying nothing. Then she walked away...
...planet seem to be hot, rising clouds and gases that have been drawn into bands by Jupiter's rapid rotation. The darker orange-brown belts that run parallel to the light bands are probably troughs of cooler, descending gases. Despite the planet's tranquil appearance from afar, it hardly seems hospitable to life. Its atmosphere is apparently ravaged, not only by great bolts of lightning but also by winds with velocities of more than 300 m.p.h. In fact, Jupiter's great red spot, long a puzzle to astronomers, could be the vortex of a violent Jovian storm...