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Word: superman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...told, should be spent doing things that build our minds and our resumes. If we find ourselves in a semester where all we are doing is minimal schoolwork, we feel aimless, identity-less. If we aren't already contributing hundreds of hours to some kind of project, our Superman friends try to bully us into stage-managing their phone-a-thons. Most busy undergrads claim that they enjoy the activities that they pursue instead of sleep. How very convenient. That way, they can work and have fun, all at the same time. I would imagine that most of us enjoy...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Staring at the Ceiling | 3/17/1998 | See Source »

...College offers. All I'm saying is that those of us who enjoy playing "Doom" shouldn't feel like sinners. If you aren't the kind of person who loves a particular activity enough to dedicate large chunks of your time to it, then trying to follow the Superman model can be a super-efficient way to make yourself miserable--if not from spending too much time on something you don't like, then from feeling guilty and inadequate for not having such an easy-to-focus passion. Believe it or not, it is possible to achieve great things while...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Staring at the Ceiling | 3/17/1998 | See Source »

...seemed obvious to many Americans that they were poised, collectively, to lead the world. And the future American, wrote a Jewish dramatist named Israel Zangwill in a play famously titled The Melting Pot, would be the supreme alloy of obstructive difference: "the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1923-1929 Exuberance: A Passion For The New | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...neither bird, nor plane nor Superman, folks. It's a 3Com PalmPilot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Palm Pilots Organize Busy Lives | 2/10/1998 | See Source »

...ship is secret becomes an increasingly ridiculous assertion with the advent of each new film. The bad guys in each movie must all have flunked out of elementary bad guy school, where dealing with James Bond is a more important part of the curriculum than even sections devoted to Superman and proper income tax return techniques. They were most assuredly all absent the day The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was shown and Eli Wallach's priceless gem of wisdom was studied: "When you gotta shoot, shoot, don't talk...

Author: By Jonathan B. Dinerstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: When Bond Flicks Are Formulaic, Everyone Loses | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

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