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...early 80s. First movie: the hero discovers his secret powers. Second movie: he shares he secret with his girlfriend. The third movie is about how it's not so super being a hero. Success, that cruel muse, threatens to transform him into a corrupt cartoon of his earlier, purer self. Recall that, in Superman III, a blend of kryptonite and tobacco tar split the Man of Steel in half, into good Supe and bad Supe. Christ battles antichrist, and they're the same person...
...Bobby Kennedy's dream - even more than John Kennedy's - is the one that has never died for liberals. Since Bobby never had the chance to govern, his image carries a purer, more transcendent hope than even that of his elder brother. And Democrats have kept trying to revive that hope: with Teddy Kennedy in 1980, Gary Hart in 1984, even Bill Bradley in 2000 - each a bold challenger of the party establishment, each of whom failed to displace the heirs (Carter, Mondale, Gore) of the same stolid establishment forces that stood in Bobby's way in 1968. Finishing Bobby...
...used in the early 1990s when mills were introducing technology from the athletic-wear industry. But in Prada's hands even those fabrics were not used in a traditional way: nylon replaced leather for bags; it became shiny, luxurious and embroidered for evening coats; or it was woven with purer yarns like cashmere to give it a stiffer hand. "I like to mix it up and make things in the opposite way than they were meant for," she explains. "Sometimes I ask [fabric mills] to mix up new combinations for the most normal fabrics?like something more stiff or more...
...food in Quincy, I would have still quarter-boarded,” Neill says.This fall, Neill is taking a semester off. He plans on returning to the Co-op next semester, and his motivation, like that of Vollmar, Zapf-Belanger and most Co-op residents, comes from something far purer than a couple thousand dollars.“I wouldn’t live at Harvard and not live in the Co-op,” explained Neill. “I think the opportunity to let a community evolve outside of the House system produces something with much more...
...don’t know what has happened to the old motto, “Just let ’em play.” I am beginning to long for the days of purer games, where results were determined by great performances and the game itself...