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Los Angeles has benefited enormously from the new influx of Asian Pacific people. The city is fast becoming the greatest cosmopolitan metropolis of the world: a gateway for trade and peoples from all over the Pacific. This commerce and immigration will eventually eclipse the magnitude of the movement that crossed...
Just absorbing hundreds of thousands of immigrants, all at once, would be a tough enough task for the overburdened overlapping local governments. (For instance, of L.A.'s 550,000 schoolchildren, 117,000 speak one of 104 languages better than they do English?including 35 kids fluent only in Gujarati, a...
He strides through Metropolis with a heavy, sexy gait, as if John Wayne had just discovered his libido. A three-day beard prickles the lantern jaw. His hair has lost that Wildroot sheen, and the brilliant red cape has turned a dirty maroon. Even the cape's bold insignia...
In comic books, on TV in the '50s and in two hugely successful movies (1978 and 1981), Superman has triumphed over nearly every species of injustice. The villains of Metropolis bang their clenched fists against his chest and go away whimpering. Preternatural varmints from the planet Krypton attempt to...
In the earlier stories, the rivalry was played mostly for romantic-comedy laughs. The first two Superman movies were at their most engaging when they updated the screwball sensibility of old Hollywood, casting Super Clark (Christopher Reeve) as a gently bumbling Fred MacMurray type and his inamorata Lois Lane (Margot...