Word: serialized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cape on and horn-rimmed glasses off, swoop down on crooks everywhere. The city is agog, and Planet Reporter Lois Lane is assigned to find out all about the flying miracle worker. As played by Margot Kidder, Lois is not the starchy spinster of the comics and the TV serial of the '50s. She is feisty and gutsy and reckless enough to need Superman' constant attention...
...earnest, with a strong overlay of spiritualism and Christian symbolism. The tone shifts abruptly when the action moves to Metropolis, which, along with evil, abounds with sight gags and fast back chat. Luthor adds still another tone, that of high camp, somewhat reminiscent of TV's old Batman serial. On their own, the Luthor scenes are funny, but they almost seem to have been brought in by mistake from another movie...
...their best to dismantle old family relationships and left in their place all kinds of jerry-built structures and subtle gradations of involvement?permanent dates, semimarriages, platonic living together, genteel common-law shackups and serial polygamy. This profusion of mating arrangements brought on wonderfully baroque confusions of protocol: How to seat the husband and two ex-husbands of the bride's mother at the wedding banquet? How to invite a homosexual couple for the weekend? There were few rules that applied to other new customs, such as living in coed dorms, coed jogging (should the man speed ahead...
Investigators in Rome were having no luck getting information from Corrado Alunni, 30, a prime suspect in the kidnap-murder of former Premier Aldo Moro. Alunni has brushed off every question by reciting the terrorist version of name, rank and serial number: "I consider myself a fighting Communist and a political prisoner in a state concentration camp and do not intend to collaborate with this system of justice." Even so, the probe into Alunni's recent whereabouts shed some light on the sybaritic life-style that Europe's leftist outlaws can occasionally afford. Not long before his arrest...
...city rooms and law offices across the country, however, the publishing controversy ignited by her coup continued to rage, tending to obscure the fact that the book itself is all too often vague, unsubstantiated and poorly written. Newspapers and magazines that had bought serial rights to the book from the New York Times Syndication Sales Corp. were trying to renegotiate-or back out of-their agreements. They argued that 1) the Post's story on Haldeman's book had turned their expensive excerpts into damaged goods, 2) the Times had damaged them further by rushing into print after...