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Reichert's life has left other scars. Born in Minnesota in 1950 of German stock, Reichert is the eldest of seven children. When he was 11, his family moved to the town of Kent, south of Seattle. Like Ridgway--two years older and growing up nearby--Reichert spent his childhood playing in the fields and woods. His father worked in a warehouse, and the family was always short of money--but not discipline. "My father was the old iron German fist," says Reichert. "There was a lot of conflict there." But as the eldest of a large family, Reichert acted...
...also on us, because she has pinpointed what we like about not only Spider-Man and his geeky-sweet alter ego Peter, but most of the masked marvels we've followed from the comics to the screen. We don't want our superheroes to be invulnerable Supermen--Clark Kent's sad-sack persona is as essential to fans as Superman's ability to turn steel girders into pasta ribbons. It's not enough that superheroes fight our battles. We need them to suffer our heartbreaks, reflect our anxieties, embody our weaknesses...
...Superman. But then neither is Superman, in the hit WB TV series Smallville, in which a teenage Clark Kent (Tom Welling) discovers the powers that will someday make him the Man of Steel. He moons over an unrequited crush and battles villains who are really externalizations of teen emotions and self-discovery, as on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Part of the charm of Welling's Clark and Tobey Maguire's Peter, in fact, is that they have a little bit of the feminine in them: they've learned from Buffy and pop culture's other fatal femmes, who make fighting...
Other award recipients include Alvaro M. Bedoya ’03, the Harvard-Rwanda Project, Nadia S. Johnson ’03, Kent K. Lam ’03, Scott S. Lee ’03, Alexander B. Patterson ’04 and Courtney A. Roberts...
This week Kent M. Keith ’71 released his first full-length book, Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments, published by Penguin Putnam, after a Mother Teresa quotation led him back to his own college-age prose...