Word: superheroics
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...talented messenger beat the man with the money. The saver of souls beat the savior of the Winter Olympics. The son of a mechanic with crooked teeth beat the corporate titan with a superhero chin...
...series of awkward events, and you might as well face it with a quirky sense of humor. Lucy shows that you can revel in your inner you and still get a hubby with a foreign accent. 2. Helen Parr (aka Elastigirl; aka Mrs. Incredible): Not just a metaphoric superhero, Helen Parr is also a literal one. She proves that there are all sorts of advantages to being flexible—like saving the day. 1. The Wife of Bath: Said to be one of the first feminist characters in literature, Chaucer’s Wife of Bath knows...
...those who grew up watching him on TV, Evel Knievel was much more than a self-promoting daredevil with 38 broken bones to his credit: he was a flawed superhero. Sure, the motorbiker's bravado was insane; he jumped cars, buses, canyons and the fountains at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace (above)--a feat that landed him in a coma for a month. He also liked to drink and was once jailed for assaulting a writer with a baseball bat. Yet whether he cleared his intended target or behaved nicely was beside the point. Evel, who changed the spelling...
...audience systematically: with each film, Smith introduces himself to a new people, often piggybacking on a local event that will attract worldwide attention. For Men in Black II, he toured in South Korea during the World Cup; for Hitch, he hit Brazil during carnival; for next year's fallen-superhero tale Hancock, he's trying to get into Beijing during the Olympics...
...Pasamonik, a consultant on the exhibit: "There was a kind of diffused anti-Semitism at the time, and it was better to use a good American commercial name to reach the wider public." Even as Robert Kahn had become Bob Kane and Jacob Kurtzberg worked as Jack Kirby, their superheroes reflected some of the identity they were masking, evoking Jewish concepts such as tikkun olam (repairing the world through social action) and legends such as the Golem of Prague, the medieval superhero of Jewish folklore who was conjured from clay by a rabbi to defend his community when...