Word: lex
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Joker does not seem to have a parallel within himself. He doesn't learn anything or gain any control over himself. He simply defeats this film's embodiment of evil. So what if Batman and the Joker are complementary psychotics? Why the Joker, and not Darth Vader or Lex Luthor? In the end, Batman is nothing more than a clever comic-book idea that just doesn't go anywhere...
...like to look at it as if it were the same thing when Lex Luther placed the kryptonite around Superman's neck," sophomore George Polsky said. "This new format hurt us a little, just as the kryponite dented Superman's power. But we know we have a strong inner core...
...broke off from Superman in 1982 because their relationship, such as it was, "didn't seem to be working anymore." But they remain friends. After a recent rescue, she offered him some white wine and brie. Lois has won a Pulitzer Prize. And she is dating none other than Lex Luthor, the onetime mad scientist, now transformed into the "most powerful man in Metropolis." This is liberation...
...through his castoff, pregnant girlfriend, who has taken refuge under Arnie's mostly paternal wing. Arnie cannot keep faith with the past without summoning up its burdens. These arrive one day in the form of a familiar family hunting for a dream house along the gulf: Lex Graham, the ambitious colleague who undermined Arnie at the university; Lex's sleek wife, who is eager to resume the affair she and Arnie once conducted; and Lex's cherished daughter, a high school belle who has reached just the right age to have her head turned by Arnie...
...felled moments later by a mysterious snakebite. But such effects are fitted so neatly into place, their significance so finely chiseled, that one almost hears the click of the craftsman's tool. As a result, the energies of Spencer's narrative remain muted, her conclusion equivocal. Even Lex, from whom violence might have been expected (he once pointed a pistol at a triumphant Arnie on campus), drifts off in a paralysis of frustration and despair. The final chapters echo with questions like those Arnie addresses to the Buddha...