Word: superealism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...star of the 50, however, and perhaps of the meet thus far, was Harvard's super-psyched Geoff Seelen. Seelen surprised everyone who thought he was a backstroker by ripping off a 21.37 in the trials to sneak into the top eight. The man he displaced, much to the delight of cheering Crimson partisans, was mammoth Princeton junior Alan Stein, who settled for ninth...
What O'Leary achieves with actions, super-freshman Hanes does with words. Not only does he have the egocentric villain character nailed ("Natalie, I believe I've found myself overqualified for life as we know it."), but the kid knows how to play off the audience like the great comic actors. Hanes is raw material, and when he goes into the Elvis-takeoff tune "Stud" (my favorite song in the show, complete with background choreograpy in the finest Motown tradition), you'll know he doesn't spend his Saturday nights watching "Mannix...
...first step has been to demythologize the images of Black Macho manhood and super-womanhood. Black Macho starts with the identification of the black male as a helpless cripple, who stands idly by while his woman totes laundry and cleans kitchens to feed his children; she gets raped or seduced by the white man, and generally perverts the normal family structure to encourage her dominance. Gradually his rage grows, he longs to assert his control over himself, his woman and his race; finally, he explodes. But when he does it is in terms of spontaneous and largely ineffect ive outbursts...
Ever want to invite friends in for a private screening of a hit movie? That lias long been a favorite entertainment form of super-rich folks who can both obtain films and keep home screening rooms to show them in. But now Magnavox and RCA are betting heavily on a new device they say will make this possible in any of the 70 million U.S. homes that have a television. It is called the videodisc...
...Green Line is expected to carry the load for us," Bertagna said, "and they were just super...