Word: supermanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most popular-if least socially significant-of all the shirts are those featuring Batman or Superman emblems, or one of a host of cartoon characters that include Porky Pig, the Road Runner, Daffy Duck (who is smoking a joint), Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. There is even a superman undershirt dress, which the wearer can presumably don in the nearest available phone booth...
...movement did not originate solely with Superman. Buck Rogers, Frankenstein, or even H. G. Wells. A great wealth of horrifying supernatural material has always filled the world's myths. Sigmund Freud, because he raised the unconscious to the conscious level, may well be the seminal figure. Of course any Science Fiction worth its metaphysical salt extends outward to the blackest realms of the universe where our planet is lost among other planets, and our galaxy among other galaxies. But Science Fiction is also a voyage inward to the realm of the unconscious where identities merge into the one-ness...
...every three families) or the Cuba that is building and providing housing free for everyone? The Cuba that was "only" 20-30 per cent illiterate or the Cuba that is now close to 0.0 per cent? The Cuba that printed 1,000,000 books in 1958 (mostly dime novels, Superman, and bad pornography) or the Cuba that printed 23,000,000 volumes in 1968-mostly textbooks but also history, economics, and best-selling editions of the European classics...
...four, the dark, hulking Reed is the most remote from the author's conception of a Nordic superman. The closest to the true Lawrentian is Glenda Jackson, who made her reputation as Charlotte Corday in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Marat-Sade. Playing the repressed, inflammable Gudrun, she is a total re-creation of the impassioned, nearly liberated woman whose yards of shapeless clothes could not conceal her unrelieved sexual longing, and whose prudish conversation was almost always alive with allusions...
...black men, they must approve the new recognition won by black artists. But as artists, they dislike the white man's current celebration of them merely because they are black. As one artist put it: "The black artist is a man, baby, not some kind of plastic superman you can make tap dance to Whitey's tune." Said another scornfully: "If they want black art, just take a canvas, paint it black, call it Nigger Number One, and they...