Word: superheros
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...Favorite Harvard Superhero" struck a divisive note, as I adamantly supported choice "D: Action Man," while my roommate chose a tamer "C: Domna," (Not surprising considering the alternatives: Harry R. Lewis '68, Rudd W. Coffey '97 and Men U. Man, a second year law school student...
...truth, the growth is just getting started. Employment at Universal Studios will swell from 5,600 to 20,000 by 2001 as the company adds everything from superhero theme-park attractions to a 16-screen theater complex and dance clubs, hotels and restaurants. Disney is building six new attractions, including a cruise line and Disney's Animal Kingdom, and 8,000 jobs to run them. Many of those slots have a future: Al Weiss, the president of Disney's Florida Park complex, started as a part-timer who closed out cash registers at the Magic Kingdom...
...mere idea of it fascinated me: Is it a cappella's answer to the League of Justice on the old superhero cartoon "Superfriends"? Is it so exclusive that I'd never even heard of it? Right away, members of the a cappella community made it difficult for me to discern whether I had stumbled upon a typical administrative body or I had sniffed out a cappella's deepest, darkest secret. Crooners refused to comment on it. They denied its existence. They told me it was really no big deal...
...turns out, Capt'n Neato-Man ("All the good superhero names were taken") put the ad in the paper to find his sidekick, Horatio. "We put it in the secretarial section to throw off the commies," he confides. His mother is on the lookout for something else altogether, but Larry resists both of them; he's looking for a real job, having been fired from McDonald's ("The epitome of the American Dream!" breathe the Captain and his mother), and he's waiting for his true love to come along...
Adam Green is the split-personality Capt'n Neato-Man, who switches personae from mama's boy to bully to sexy, self-assured superhero in the three-way tug-of-war over "Horatio." At the heart of the story is the question, "Will Larry agree to give up his identity and become 'Horatio'?" Towards the end, the script dips into banality, pitting Larry against the Cap'n in the worn-out opposition between the "Get a real life" and "Live your dream" schools of thought. Overall, however, great lines ("You can't have sex without love!" "What are you, kidding...