Word: batmans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sense that anyone could do whatever they wanted--the musicians were liberated from the composer's commands and the composer was free of any musical responsibility for his creation. Guy had sent the Jazz Band pages of the score with long thick line, short sprinkles of dots, "Batman Blams, " and curly Qs, and my skepticism increased. It seemed that Guy was like a child playing composer; now it was our turn for freetime...
RECOVERING. Bruce ("Batman") Wayne, 54, millionaire and caped crusader; from injuries received opposing evil; in Gotham City. A muscle-bound villain named Bane broke Wayne's back in a desperate fight last year, resulting in severe spinal trauma that put Wayne in a wheelchair. An alternate Batman has been filling in during Wayne's convalescence. Now walking with the assistance of two canes, Wayne is expected to suffer no permanent disability...
...spends his few remaining free hours watching Yankee games, The Simpsons and Batman cartoons--and All My Children. "(13-time Emmy nominee) Susan Lucci might actually win this year," he contends...
...Burton's movies are continually faulted for being visual feasts without plots. More like cartoons than live-action films, they are heavy on surreal style and light on story development. Luckily, his leads are generally more cartoonish than real anyway: Pee Wee Herman, Beetlejuice and Batman. But as "Batman Returns" hinted, even these films are too limiting for Burton. With "The Nightmare Before Christmas," Burton may have found the ideal vehicle for his sensibilities: an actual animated feature totally free from the constraints of actors...
What was that bizarre sight in San Francisco Bay last week? Darth Vader's helmet? A movie prop for Batman III? No, the vessel steaming across the water on a test mission was Sea Shadow, a 160-ft., 560-ton, welded-steel catamaran that is the latest thing in Navy technology: a Stealth ship. Designed by the same Lockheed "skunk works" that built the F-117A Stealth fighter, the ship has sloping angles and a special coating designed to make it nearly invisible to enemy sonar and radar. Such stealthy boats might someday guard the perimeter of carrier groups, covertly...