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...power line behind his home outside Houston, and the impatient youngster tried to unsnarl the mess by poking at it with a rake. Zap, crackle, pop. The line short-circuited, burned through and fell, sparking and whipping, onto a chain link fence. That was a job for Superman -but he didn't show. Fortunately another stellar hero lived next door, and Scott Carpenter, 38, came to the rescue. While a second neighbor held the wires down with a board, the astronaut laid into the 120-volt cable with a wooden-handled ax, soon cut it free of the fence...
...wasn't just whistling Dixie. The Deacon Squad, far from a superman quintet during the House campaign when it lost twice and won another by only two points, was never pressed by the Stiles five...
...Superman conveys many of the best parts of Shaw's humanistic cynicism without dissolving completely into the philosophical ramblings that he enjoyed so much. Not that Shaw curbed his didacticism in this play; he created a long episode of Don Juan in Hell specifically as a setting for what he called a "Shavio-Socratic dialogue." But Shaw could preach without becoming soporific. John Cunningham's commanding performance as Don Juan helps prevent the scene in Hell from going entirely limp. And Frank Lucas's portrayal of a civilized, romantic Lucifer is as delightfully incongruous as his depiction of Mendoza...
...times, Man and Superman may seem interminable to the audience, but cutting has made this performance considerably more terminable than Shaw meant it to be. The cuts do not interfere with the basic plot or with the essence of Shaw's philosophizing. They do, however, eliminate several good lines and at least one amusing complication. Some of the missing passages would have livened up the interlude in Hell. But even a truncated Shaw is better than no Shaw at all, and Man and Superman can survive considerable deletions without losing the master's spirit or even his verbosity...
...Giants had done all they could to stop him: his left arm was bandaged and swollen; there were purple bruises over and under both eyes and on the bridge of his nose. Brown only grinned. Said Giant Halfback Frank Gifford: "That Brown. He says he isn't Superman. What he means is that Superman isn't Jimmy Brown...