Word: dd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Matt Murdock (the blind lawyer who uses his secret "radar sense" to prowl the rooftops as DD) became a real character, a pathological vigilante with a conscience. Miller was questioning the superhero, the great convention of the comic book form: the citizen, gifted by fate, who selflessly puts on longjohns to fight evil. At least the villains use their laser-beam eyes for material gain--what do the heroes...
...McDonald, like Donald Duck... all of them are icons, all are interchangeable in the Fun House this country has become. For an instant, Eco and I shared an unconscious, a kind of delirium in which Ronald (Mc)Donald produces Donald and the RR of our president makes for the DD of the Donald Duck that, for once at least, Reagan himself thought he was like...
...collided with the jagged obstacles and barbed wire that the Germans had embedded along the beach. The heavily burdened invaders had to scramble out into neck-deep water, or worse. A number of amphibious craft loaded with artillery turned back. Armored units had an even harder time. Their Sherman DD tanks were outfitted with devices that were supposed to keep them afloat while they lurched ashore, but of the first 32 launched, 27 sank in the choppy waves and plunged to the bottom, taking most of their helpless five-man crews with them...
Although Iroy said he may call on the head of the program Amy Singer, to testify today, Singer yesterday denied that her program had spent $16,000 on McDonal's treatment. Singer said she only explained court procedure for the witness and dd some supportive counseling...