Word: super-human
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Meanwhile, Clark and Lois are sounding each other out like a pair of high school sophomores at a kitschy Niagra Falls motel. Overwhelmed by his own super-human passion, the man with x-ray vision gives in to his partner's advances. There's only one catch--as a home movie of Supermom reminds her son later that evening--you can't mess with the locals and keep your Kryptonian powers. Don't be too quick to criticize, though; if you saw Margot Kidder in a bathrobe, you too might forget about the dire state of world affairs...
...must have been emotionally raped; we are measured, above all, by our work; we are encouraged not to bond, neither to each other nor to women. We are desexualized, desensualized; neuter brains, success machines. We are not supposed to enjoy touch, but supposed to be pure, powerful, intellectual, super-human. The prototypical perfect male is Mr. Spock of Star Trek, possessed of deep dedication and dominated by love (but always higher love: love of beauty, love of knowledge, love of truth), raped of every normal animal feeling...
...more years than one cares to calculate, the inhabitants of the Oval Office have gloried in the myth of super-human exertion. The more meetings, the more phone calls, the more crises, the longer the hours, the better it got. Lyndon Johnson, for instance, worked an early shift of eight hours, took a two-hour nap in the late afternoon, then stepped into a cold shower that pummeled him back to consciousness, after which he worked eight more hours. Richard Nixon by that measure was rather lazy, but he was so intimidated by his predecessor that his staff strove frantically...
...panel also says that "there is little doubt" that Hartman's criticisms of the department "were felt and resented" by the senior faculty. "Indeed," it adds, "it would require almost super-human forebearance for them [the attacks] not to have been so regarded...
Kissinger had virtually a free hand in setting affairs of state from the time Nixon first began to get mired in Watergate. Even before that, Nixon had relied almost solely on Kissinger for high-level advice. His string of international coups that brought him super-human status--despite his previous role in charting an immoral war that killed thousands of people in North Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos--began with, ironically enough, his sensational "Peace at Hand" trick mastered just in time to deal George McGovern the final death blow right before the 1972 election. Since then, Kissinger had shuttled back...