Word: superhumans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...punish the seemingly invincible Drago, and various cries of "Kill him!" escape from alleged human beings. Rocky (and Stallone), I think, is no longer "da bum from Philly who don't talk too good." The audience really believes this cartoon of men named after Greek myths who have superhuman strengths and superhuman purposes. Stallone/Rocky no longer plays the aspiring Sigfried. He is no Wotan himself entering the Valhalla of mass popularity...
Celeste also jetted to Washington to get help from federal banking authorities. Edwin Gray, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which oversees the FSLIC, promised Celeste "an unprecedented, superhuman effort" to complete the paperwork necessary to bring as many as possible of the closed Ohio thrifts under federal insurance. Fed Chairman Volcker also pledged support. Said he: "The job now is to get the institutions opened rapidly and in an orderly fashion so that we don't have a repetition of the situation...
...British journalist, "I don't believe in regretting my fate, but it is sometimes very hard. I have not seen my son and daughter for 17 years, and I have a grandson and granddaughter whom I have never seen." Svetlana's telling final cry: "Sometimes it's an almost superhuman effort not to drop everything and to run and get a ticket to go and see them. Sometimes I don't care what the regime is. I just want to see my grandchildren...
...absence of such a structure, the Chief Executive must exercise a lonely and nearly superhuman monitorship of the whole system-an undertaking that is beyond the limits of individual knowledge and energy. Vision without discipline is a daydream...
...Bedelia, as Shirley, gives an admirable performance, the lines do not give her a chance to express the complete range of her character. She is stifled by Friedman's stiff unemotional dialogue. Unlike Rocky, with whom the audience seemed to sweat and also cheer. Shirley is a cold, almost superhuman character who seems to know exactly what she wants and how to get there. We watch her plow her way through personal conflicts, the male dominated world of the race track, with a hard-nosed determination that asks for no compassion. Shirley always wins her races, and we always know...