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Shenanigans like these earned them the nicknames Batman and Robin, and may once have made fair copy. (The film was extracted from L.H. Whittemore's book about the pair's exploits in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in the late '60s.) On screen, though, their heroics look lame. We expect our cops to be either a good deal meaner (Hackman in The French Connection, Scheider in The Seven-Ups) or at least stronger fantasy projections of unwavering strength and authority, like Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry. Greenberg and Hantz here are neither real enough...
...deceptive; it is just obvious. And Ramos, whose Batmen and Playboy Bunnies go as far as pop ever went in unctuous, opportunistic triviality, seems to be in the show merely to illustrate an amusing feedback loop between pop and commercial art. In 1962, at the peak of the Batman revival, Ramos got some mileage from painting the masked hero of Bob Kane's comic strip. Four years later, a Batman comic returned the compliment by illustrating a pop exhibition in the Gotham City museum; on the wall were paintings clearly meant to look like Ramos...
...rays) in the corridor leading to the radiology unit. Bare hospital walls were covered with giant murals of characters from children's books and television programs-Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat, Charlie Brown and his friends, and the Flintstones. The X-ray machine was labeled "Batman's Superanalyzer," and nurses were given brightly colored smocks...
WHEN ROTC WAS last an issue at Harvard, the Class of 1977 was busily finishing eighth grade, no doubt reluctantly putting aside Batman comic books for the rigors of algebra and civics. Also in 1969, the Indochina War entered Year V of massive American involvement; 500,000 GIs roamed the Vietnamese countryside, spreading waste and devastation, while American warplanes pulverized much of the rest of Indochina...
...height of the American intervention--the Right's arguments may carry the day. If, however, America's war crimes have not lost their stark, searing vividness, ROTC will once again be turned down. In some sense, the dispute's outcome hinges on when the Class of '77 stopped reading Batman and started reading about MyLai...