Word: flew
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...When he flew over Metropolis back in 1939, he was merely a mild-mannered reporter with amazing superpowers. Now Clark Kent is back, but as the Yuppie of Steel. When he is not chasing stories as a star journalist for the Daily Planet, he writes novels, attends evening parties and shares his inner feelings -- can we talk? -- with his friend and colleague Lois Lane. His superbody has been redrawn along Rambo lines to reflect the iron-pumping fad of the '80s. Nor does Superman come quite as cheap as he used to. Last week a new, updated version of Superman...
...time is Williams' declining years, and the prevailing tone is graveyard jollity, dancing at the abyss. Like authentic conversation, Nightingale veers abruptly from revelation to chitchat; at one moment Williams self-justifyingly remarks that much of life is made of trivia. The talk ranges from bitchy quips ("I just flew in from Hollywood. I was there too long: four hours") and camp badinage ("An advantage of being homosexual is that I don't have to pay all that alimony") to a tearstained, self-blaming recollection of his sister Rose's lobotomy. Eerily, even at his most private and abandoned moments...
...Dean Who Flew The Coop...
After her triumph in Washington, Aquino flew to New York City, where she met with business leaders in an effort to spur new investment in the Philippines and delivered an address in the TIME Distinguished Speakers series. At week's end she went to Boston to give a speech at Harvard and accept an honorary degree from Boston University, then visited her former home in suburban Newton, Mass., where she and her husband lived in exile for three years. She was scheduled to address the United Nations on Monday...
Last July Prime Minister Peres of Israel flew to Morocco for peace talks with King Hassan II, and before anyone knew the contents of the negotiations, Syria broke off diplomatic relations with Morocco and the P.L.O. declared it would oppose to the end any outcome. Some interested observers of this overture were candid and clear about the relationship between terrorism and peace, even a hint of peace: "Now," Royal Air Maroc stewards told a New York Times correspondent, "we will have to start worrying about hijackings and terrorist attacks." The fundamental fact of the Middle East today is that those...