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...pelvis- wiggling Boitano gooses every woman in sight. Gary Beacom, whose skating blends performance art and circus theatrics, does an uproarious first-act | number in which herky-jerky movements suggest every skater's nightmare: impending spills onto the ice. In the second act Beacom crawls and skitters like Spiderman, then skates from end to end of the arena while encased in black, including a hood that blocks his vision. Valova and Vasiliev join Underhill and Martini for a campy imitation of peasant dances to a revved-up Slavic-sounding recording called Morning Gymnastics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Spectacle for Thinking Adults | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...many years ther was a grim silence, as Adam West and Burt Ward went on to open shopping malls and Batman Comic fans grimly hid their books behind issues of Spiderman. There was no hope in Gotham...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: A Bat Out of Hell | 4/30/1986 | See Source »

...monitors were inspired by a 1977 Spiderman cartoon and introduced in New Mexico six years later. Now the contraptions are catching on. Oregon's Linn County is using ankle transmitters to enforce curfew restrictions on repeat drunk-driving offenders. Kenton County, Ky., employs the devices to monitor fathers under house arrest for not paying child support. Lake County, Ill., has ordered $51,350 worth of equipment in an effort to cut prison costs and relieve overcrowding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spiderman's Net: An electronic alternate to prison | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...there it is, against the library's back wall, between two racks of magazines: hundreds and hundreds of comic books thrown together in one enormous heap that is truly awesome. Batman and Superman are there, and so are a legion of other familiar super heroes: Spiderman, the Incredible Hulk Wonder Woman, The Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Captain America, and the Mighty Thor...

Author: By Michael W. Miler, | Title: THE INCREDIBLE COMIC CZAR | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

Crimson sophomore Chris "Spiderman" Hancock also snatched victory from the paws of a Bruin with a blistering 50-yd. kick in the 200-yd. butterfly. After catching up with Peter Voss, Hancock used his long, spindly arms to touch at 2:03.94, while Voss settled for second...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Aquamen Prevail; Schramm Sets Mark | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

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