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...Treasury Secretary under President Carter. His determined advance convinced Wall Street that Sperry's days as an independent company are numbered. In just two days last week, speculators sent Sperry's stock price up $16.25, to $71.25. Some investors think Sperry will find a so-called white knight to deliver it from Blumenthal's clutches, but the company is running out of candidates. During the past year, Sperry is rumored to have held merger talks with ITT, General Dynamics and AT&T, among others. An equally likely possibility is that Burroughs will eventually win Sperry's hand, but only...
Here was the film I had been waiting for all my life: a steamy crime thriller set in the lush Florida everglades, with a low-key knight of hard-talking, hard-hitting idealism taking on the odds and somehow pulling through. It was going to be another Key Largo, the 1948 John Huston picture that pitted Humphrey Bogart against Edward G. Robinson, struggling with wits and pistols in the claustrophobic setting of a hurricance-cursed Florida Keys resort hotel, with life, death and Lauren Bacall all on the line...
...Batman is not welcomed by a grateful populace. "Think of the noise that came from what Bernie Goetz did," Miller told Los Angeles Times, "and imagine if there was a very powerful, terrifying figure doing that on a regular basis." Television screens stream across the pages of The Dark Knight, constantly reporting--and creating--the public reaction to Batman's sensationally violent exploits...
...Dark Knight, printed in a 45-page format on heavy paper, is intended to be a cross-over work, to break out of the adolescent market and into the big-time of popular adult fiction. It might even, in a medium stretch of the imagination, be called literature...
...Frank Miller is a master of this peculiar form and has achieved greatness. The Dark Knight is a meditation on comics themselves and the heros that populate them. Is Batman a sociopath? Is Superman a facsist? It may revolutionize the industry...