Word: supermans
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HOSPITALIZED. CHRISTOPHER REEVE, 42, actor; for a broken neck and injured spinal cord; in Charlottesville, Virginia. Reeve, who leaped to stardom in the 1978 big-screen version of Superman, was competing in an equestrian event when his horse refused a jump and Reeve was thrown to the ground, breaking two vertebrae at the base of his skull. Reeve is on a respirator, paralyzed below the neck, but reporting sensation in his chest. Doctors will operate this week to prevent further damage to his spinal cord...
...DIED." CLARK KENT, 56, journalist; in an attack on Kent's family and friends; in Smallville. Following the discovery by supervillain Conduit (a.k.a. childhood friend Kenny Braverman) that Superman and Clark Kent are one and the same, the Man of Steel has allowed the world to assume-for now-that Kent perished in the Conduit-led assault...
...lung cancer; in Manhasset, New York. Boston-born Friedrich first hit his stride during his 1960s tenure at the Saturday Evening Post. During his subsequent years in the pages of Time and in his own nimbly crafted nonfiction, Friedrich emerged as an elegant explicator of just about everything: Superman, insanity, the pop art of Hollywood, the high art of pianist Glenn Gould, the collapse of German democracy, the demise of a rose garden...
...himself--thought that he would ever have another shot at the White House. He had failed twice. The 1988 election sent him into the darkest period of his political career. Then came a bout with prostate cancer-an old man's disease and a reminder that not even the superman who took Nazi fire would live forever. Meanwhile, there was the incessant yapping that he had to endure from combative young pups in his own party, who saw Dole as an artifact of that embarrassing era when Republicans had been willing to compromise principle in order to govern...
...have no misconception that I'm a superman," Carnesale said. "My intention and expectation are to be looking for and acquiring help and assistance...