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...from work, playing a corpse in a college play, sliding down a fire pole-all were margins used by individual candidates in last week's relentless victories. Gerry Sikorski, the fellow who plastered red and blue signs on nearly every fence post and telephone pole along the two-lane highways in his Minnesota district, lost. The thought of the cleanup may have beaten...
Superman pulls out of his funk at the end of the show of course; his overwhelming desire to do good triumphs in the face of Freudian psychoanalysis. During a song called "Pow! Bam! Zonk!" Superman trounces his foes, returns as Metropolis's hero, and wins the love of Lois Lane--who has been drooling after him throughout the entire show...
Laura Hastings' '80 Lois Lane, on the other hand, sparkles with freshness and originality. She has added comic dimensions to the character which never existed in either the "Superman" television series or in the comic books. Lois is at once the ardent feminist--"I'm not a girl," she declares, "I'm Today's Active Woman"--as well as the lovesick, horny girl who purrs the song "Oh, How I Wish I Weren't In Love With Superman...
...Commune near Canton. Country people fare quite well, at least in fertile farming areas. Like all the other peasants in Hao Mei village, the Ch'ens own their own house, a fairly new whitewashed brick building in a row of ten attached tile-roofed dwellings on a narrow lane. Their home, which they share with three daughters, 11, 9 and 4, consists of a small entry hall, large liv ing room and sizable bedroom, small kitchen and back court with privy; they bathe in a communal facility. The tile-floored, high-ceilinged rooms are hot in summer, but they...
...remember that majority will or consensus exists, and, indeed, these seem to crystallize less and less often nowadays. When truckers dislike a nationally mandated speed limit, they turn into an instant faction and willfully protest the law with massive slowdowns. Los Angeles motorists, irritated by an experimental expressway lane for car poolers, defeat it not with persuasion and argument but by circumventions and defiant traffic blockages. It has become commonplace to see popular sentiment disdained, frustrated and sometimes decisively defeated by willful factions of minuscule size...