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After defeating the Penguin, the Joker, and the Riddler, Batman fell to his most powerful, insidious enemy: Lorenzo Semple Jr., the Television Script Writer. Semple was responsible for the TV series Batman, which demoted the Caped Crusader to Campy Clown. Fans of the printed page Batman protested the desecration of their hero, but the cries of outrage were lost amid the nation's giggles...
...COLOR PURPLE, by Alice Walker, sold at the Penguin Bookstore...
...Opus meet up with some of those commies we've heard about. Like the ones we saw on the recent Wendy's ad where the participants in a Soviet fashion show march around with the same drab peasant attire passing for every look. Better yet, let the penguin take some lessons on open-mindedness from Rambo...
...Fionnula Flanagan, and how does she have the audacity to write, produce, and star in her own movie when she has the talent for none of these things? Why, furthermore, did Burgess Meredith (alias The Penguin) direct this play in New York, and why did it run longer than two days? And most of all, why does Flanagan insist on showing off her bestockinged legs, when there is so little to show off? These questions, like many Irish mysteries, can only be answered by some form of blarney, of which there is also plenty in this film...
...core of Alfonsin's program is a new national currency. The 104-year-old Argentine peso is being replaced by the austral, which at the moment is worth 1,000 old pesos or $1.25. Since the currency bears the same name as one domestic airline, whose emblem is a penguin, the austral was immediately nicknamed the "pinguino," the Spanish word for penguin. To maintain the value of the austral, the government vowed that it will no longer simply print money to cover expenses. In addition, it proclaimed a freeze on all wages and on the prices of 31 food items...