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...placing of a baboon heart into the chest of little Baby Fae caused indignation in many quarters. For some, who might safely be called eccentric, the concern was animal rights. Pickets outside Loma Linda University Medical Center and elsewhere protested the use of baboons as organ factories. Dr. Leonard Bailey, the chief surgeon, was not impressed. "I am a member of the human species," he said. Human babies come first. It was unapologetic speciesism. He did not even have to resort to sociology, to the argument that in a society that eats beef, wears mink and has for some time...
...issue was made out to be the public's (read: the press's) right to know. There were reiterated complaints about withheld information, vital forms not made public, too few press conferences. It is true that in its first encounter with big-time media Loma Linda proved inept at public relations. But how important can that be? In time the important information will be published and scrutinized in the scientific literature, a more reliable setting for judging this procedure than live television...
...easily as bend steel bars, would certainly have demanded a salary several orders of magnitude greater than the cost of a nubile unknown. A second coast-to-coast star search would generate gobs of favorable publicity. And the same people who enjoyed watching Charlie's Angels or Linda Carter bounce around as Wonder Woman are a sure bet to see this movie...
...what's the first thing you would do? Take out a want ad? Hire a P.I.? If you happen to be Supergirl, you would utilize your most enviable superpower, the ability to change hair color at will and enroll in a suburban girls' school under the alliterative alias Linda...
...good super-hero film, then "Supergirl" is by far the worst of the four Super films. But if you feel, as most of Hollywood seems to, that stupidity, capriciousness, and a big bust are the prerequisite of being a female hero, Supergirl supererogates even the execrable standard set by Linda Carter's Wonder Woman. And that's a pretty big suit to fill...