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Tobacco Road. The people in a small Georgia town throw their tobacco products into the main street after Jeeter Lester and his family persuade them to give up smoking, chewing and dipping...
...right. There's no way you can take Superman seriously for more than two hours, and in Part I, director Richard Donner couldn't quite figure out how to make the transition from rock 'em-sock 'em plot to a little self-deprecating dialogue or visual humor. Richard Lester masters this problem early on, and with good performances from his stars, gets you to root for the good guys at the same time that you laugh at them...
Fans across the country were dismayed. The rituals of baseball are a mainstay of American life, and some lifelong habits were disrupted by the strike. Said Lester Wilson, an optometrist from East Point, Ga.: "An old man like me, baseball's all I get a kick out of. I'm sick about it. I won't have anything to do at night...
Jumping from one job to another has become endemic in the American economy. In 1980 the average U.S. manufacturing firm lost 4% of its workforce every month. What this means is analyzed by Lester C. Thurow, professor of economics and management at M.I. T. and a member of TIME'S Board of Economists...
...when one of the combatants gets thrown, the trajectory is measured in city blocks. In short, there is wit, even a sort of weird plausibility, in the action sequences that was not present in the first film. Since the major change in the credits is the substitution of Richard Lester for Richard Donner as director, it seems logical to single out the man who did A Hard Day's Night and The Three Musketeers as the one responsible for making Superman soar...