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...different than the American version? I noticed one comic where Batman was fighting a man who could change into a praying mantis, a drill bit, a pterodactyl...They took it back to the '40s, where there wasn't any deep psychological exploration, just a slam-bang fun thing. There's this one villain called Lord Death Man, and his ability is basically to die. But much more importantly, he comes back to life and starts to haunt Batman's dreams. All kinds of wonderful weird things happen that don't get explained...
...entertainment format. In bad times, we still need our good times, maybe more than ever. At least that's what the companies that sell TV, movies, video games and other recreational commodities are counting on as the economic crisis deepens. "People are feeling like they're depriving themselves of fun they would be having by buying a new car or taking a trip," says Tom Adams, president of Adams Media Research. "So they feel fully justified in continuing to spend on more cost-conscious kinds of entertainment...
...year's budget and Viacom's Paramount Pictures is shrinking its slate from 25 movies a year to 20. But how bad the industry is hurt and which sectors are hit hardest will depend in part on an important calculation that consumers make - how much is an hour of fun worth...
...channeling the energy and the idealism of these students he gives this activity a prestige, a relevance, a here and now, a charisma that ultimately legitimizes and galvanizes these young people, which leads them to thinking that they are not only doing something which is a great deal of fun, but something that is a social mission...
...other university sporting events—“tragic.” But Hill also said he remained undaunted by the more restrictive policy. “Yale is an industrious bunch, and no mere regulations can be wielded against us that will quash our ability to have fun,” he said. “We might even allow some Harvard students to have fun with us.” Hill said he observed tighter restrictions at the Harvard-Yale Game two years ago in Cambridge than at either of the home games he has attended...