Word: slater
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Supergirl is Kara (Helen Slater), Superman's younger cousin and a fellow émigré from Krypton, who grows up in Midvale, U.S.A., as Linda Lee. In her preppie uniform she is an ordinary schoolgirl, but put her in red cape and tights and she is revealed as California Girl, apotheosis of the workout ethic. Kara must save the world from the malefic Selena (Faye Dunaway), high priestess of Endor and part-time palmist. In this task, Supergirl is aided by her Krypton father Zaltar (Peter OToole), who, as in every other Freudian fable from Oedipus Rex to Star...
...think of them; and Opposition Leader Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who took time from their election campaign for private interviews with TIME." Kelly was accompanied on his rounds by TIME Photographer David Rubinger, 60, who immigrated to Israel from Vienna before World War II. Reporter Robert Slater, 40, whose interviews ranged from Israel's Finance Minister to Jerusalem housewives, arrived in Israel from the U.S. in 1971, "with no plans to stay indefinitely, but I'm still here...
...headhunters up to one-third of an executive's salary, and so profits for recruiters are also high. Search firms earned some $1.2 billion in fees last year, or about 20% more than in 1982. Their total earnings could climb to $1.5 billion in 1984. Says Robert Slater, managing director of U.S. operations for New York City-based Spencer Stuart & Associates: "This is the most significant increase in business that I can recall...
...Kara, who fled the doomed city of Argo, a floating chip off their old home planet, Krypton, and landed in Midvale, Ill., where she assumed the identity of a Midwestern teenager. Got that? Anyway, with her muscle-bound relative away on an intergalactic mission, Kara, played by Newcomer Helen Slater, 20, is kept busy battling megabaddies like the evil witch Selena, portrayed by Faye Dunaway, 43. To prepare for her flying scenes, Slater talked with Christopher Reeve, who starred as the airborne hero in Superman I to III. Says Slater: "Once you get past that feeling of being helplessly trapped...
...best if you just do it," said a deadpan Prince Charles, 36, when confronted with pie-slinging Subject Kati Slater, 15, during a visit to a newly opened West Indian community center in Manchester, England. She did indeed do it. And Charles got it in the princely puss. Steve Starkie, who was standing near by, found it amusing-until Charles proved that he too can dish it out and left Steve foaming at the mouth. The Prince was, as one British newspaper put it, "His Royal Pieness...