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...horrible even for language. Then there is the matter of avoiding guilt-Why suffer it?-the guilt of not being among the victims in Hiroshima, and the guilt of identifying with the victors as well, the knowledge that the destroyers of the world never came from any planet but our own. Better to hold all that destructiveness at one remove. The U.S. keeps a plane in the air with the capacity to trigger the missile system if ground controls are destroyed. It calls the aircraft Looking Glass. And the power of the nation's weaponry is disguised in initials...
...stopping a runaway train, nor punching out bank robbers. He's in bed with a gorgeous woman, worrying about things that have nothing to do with truth, justice, or the American way. Superman II is more than just another adventure for our favorite hero. In addition to saving the planet, and perhaps the universe, he confronts his own past, throws a dinner party for two at his North Pole bungalow, and--horrors!--exposes himself in more ways than one to Lois Lane. Superman has passed through intergalactic puberty. The Caped Wonder has come...
...makers of the sequel to Superman have drastically expanded their character and given depth to the world he must protect. Things used to be so simple; after a long day of reporting for the Daily Planet. Clark Kent would find out that his shapely cohort had managed to get herself stuck in a shark tank in Saudi Arabia. After checking into the nearest phone booth, he would emerge, leotards and all, leap tall buildings and so forth, to arrive at the scene of the crime just in time to save poor Lois. There would always be a moment of sexual...
...TRIO--Zod, Ursa, and Non--are none other than the criminals-in-chief of Superman's home planet, Krypton. At the end of Part I, they were imprisioned by our hero's father and doomed to float about the galaxy in a funky outer-space jail cell. Freed, they decided to take over earth and rule forever, needless to say, in a most unpleasant manner...
DIED. Barbara Ward, 67, British economist and author who made the case for Western aid to developing Third World countries in such books as The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations (1962) and Progress for a Small Planet (1980); of cancer; in Lodsworth, England. A onetime assistant editor of the Economist and the wife of the Australian diplomat Commander Sir Robert Jackson, Ward became an influential adviser on international economics to U.N. Secretary-General U Thant and to Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. The technologically and economically advanced nations "are remaking the face of the earth," she once wrote...