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Margaret Thatcher should serve as an example to America [June 20]. She represents many of the virtues that have faded in our nation. She is hardworking, thrifty, self-reliant and not afraid to believe in herself and her ideals. Britain's Iron Lady is as classically American as Superman...
...unforeseen problems. One example: eradication of sickle-cell anemia genes might make an individual more susceptible to malaria. Other clergymen are deeply concerned that scientists, despite their disclaimers, will eventually seek to make more changes - in short, to usurp the creative function of God by building a kind of superman...
...defrocked prelates, debating the fate of modern man with irony and rant. This line of dramatists began not with John Osborne but with Bernard Shaw, and at the end of a ranter's play the theatergoer should echo the fond last words of Shaw's Man and Superman: "Go on talking...
...film is stocked with sprightly gags-from the opening credit sequence, with its Rube Goldberg series of mishaps, to the evil Superman getting a wicked charge out of setting the leaning tower of Pisa aright. Director Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night, Petulia) paces the jokes to his trademarked sprung rhythm and sees that they are deftly executed by his engaging cast. Vaughn may lack the top-dog malevolence needed for an archvillain, but he communicates the fun he had playing the role. O'Toole, whose cheerleader beauty has too often been camouflaged...
...might say the same for Christopher Reeve. Superman is a role that offers as many pitfalls as opportunities: surrender to parody and the part becomes as two-dimensional as newsprint; emphasize the stalwart heroism and the audience falls asleep. Reeve brings both a light touch and sufficient muscle to Superman. And when he goes bad, he is a sketch of vice triumphant, swaggering toward the vixen Lorelei for a sulfurous kiss. It is largely to Reeve's credit that this summer's moviegoers will look up at the screen...