Word: demigods
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...details deserve further comment. Mr. Cole points out that Roger Clemens did not beat the Mets and suggests that "he's used to anemic American League hitters." I won't accuse Mr. Cole of deliberately neglecting to mention that the demigod Dwight Gooden fared even more poorly against Boston than Clemens did against New York. Second, Mr. Cole suggests that the Red Sox "would trade their whole team" for Darryl Strawberry, adding to the chorus of praise that always greets the most overhyped player in the history of baseball. If Mr. Cole cares to check, he would discover that Dwight...
...laserwriter is fairly simple--for a demigod, that is. It produces near typeset-quality printouts in less time than an image-writer or other dotmatrix printer can turn out draft-quality work. Far superior to daisy wheel printers, the laserwriter is also at least five times faster...
...shopping or glance through their wardrobe with the intention of looking like someone else. It's not anyone in particular--it's just the look that they're after. Oh, you know it all too well. It's the khaki pants, the shoes from L.L. Bean (a demigod to this crowd), gray wool socks (if any), a wrinkled oxford shirt under a white-dotted blue sweater (the most popular garment on campus), topped off with a dungaree jacket (collar turned up). Combined with name-brand shades (Vuarnets or Ray Bans or imitations thereof) replete with neckstrap, this typical B.C. student...
Every Labor Day the demigod of bad taste, Jerry Lewis, holds his famous telethon for muscular dystrophy. Every year this mawkish tribute to human misery makes money. But though Lewis is cheesy, he is still trying to reach some lowest common denominator of kindness. Without a reputation to enhance (except in France) and lacking the really big talents that would bring Nielsen points by their very presence. Lewis has to rely on a barrage of sympathy-grabbing images to make people even a little concerned. USA for Africa does the exact opposite, attempting to emotionally shield people from the problem...
...ideal, the symbol of civilized individualism riding west. The state of the cowboy myth became a gauge of American values, of the way that the nation envisioned good guys and bad guys: the wholesomely, vapidly manly Buck Jones-Tom Mix model gave way to a post-World War II demigod. John Wayne, who had none of the old sweet prissiness and was not afraid of the uses of power. Wayne gave way during the Viet Nam era to Clint Eastwood, the high plains drifter with an almost reptilian indifference to death suffered or inflicted. Cowboy: The Enduring Myth...