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...Supergirl who appeared as a result of Cub Reporter Jimmy Olsen's making a wish over a Latin American idol. No sooner was she dispatched back to pre-Columbian limbo than it turned out that Krypton had not exploded all at once and that Superman's cute cousin Kara had also rocketed to earth as another Supergirl, a.k.a. Linda Lee. (Why all the females in Superman have names beginning with L remains unexplained, and might make a promising subject for a Ph.D. dissertation...
Acting in the revue serves as an outlet for pent-up emotions, says Kara M. Walsh, who spent two years with the Harvard Square cast. "I used to live in a very small town, and I really hated it because you couldn't be what you wanted to be without people saying something," she says. "You went to Rocky, and the people there didn't say anything...
...most grueling, yet exhilarating days of Michael Dukakis' presidential campaign. For 18 hours the Massachusetts Governor barnstormed across eastern Texas, drawing attentive crowds and displaying his fluency in Spanish and Greek. Now, after midnight, Dukakis stood with his exhausted 18- year-old daughter Kara on the airport tarmac in Dallas. For the first time all day, the candidate noticed that Kara was teetering on high heels. "Why do you wear those foolish shoes?" he asked, baffled that his child would choose fashion over function. "Why don't you wear running shoes or something sensible like that...
Michael and Kitty Dukakis are almost a comically exaggerated study in contrasts: he is reserved, analytical and parsimonious, while she is warm, emotional and a bit extravagant. They raised three children: John Dukakis, 29, Kitty's son from her first marriage; Andrea, 21, who just graduated from Princeton; and Kara. John, now running the Dukakis campaign in the South, sees a gradual softening in his father's demeanor: "My mother has really helped him to express that it's not an invasion of privacy to show people that he cares for them...
Supergirl is Kara (Helen Slater), Superman's younger cousin and a fellow émigré from Krypton, who grows up in Midvale, U.S.A., as Linda Lee. In her preppie uniform she is an ordinary schoolgirl, but put her in red cape and tights and she is revealed as California Girl, apotheosis of the workout ethic. Kara must save the world from the malefic Selena (Faye Dunaway), high priestess of Endor and part-time palmist. In this task, Supergirl is aided by her Krypton father Zaltar (Peter OToole), who, as in every other Freudian fable from Oedipus Rex to Star...