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...there it is, against the library's back wall, between two racks of magazines: hundreds and hundreds of comic books thrown together in one enormous heap that is truly awesome. Batman and Superman are there, and so are a legion of other familiar super heroes: Spiderman, the Incredible Hulk Wonder Woman, The Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Captain America, and the Mighty Thor...
...Sack Cheri lobby. Posters of the movies alone presage man burning in eternal hell. Caveman, with a cartoon Barbara Bach performing oral sex on a dinosaur's tail; Superman II (just when you thought it was safe to go back in the air...?); Heaven's Gate (now weakly billed as "the most controversial film of the year!"--if I threw up and then demanded a paying audience that would be controversial...
Good vs. Evil is in. Since they perceived the "national mood" as desperate, the studios give us heroes and Super-heroes restoring order to chaos. The champions of American mythology--comic book characters--are back in action. Blond-haired, blue-eyed Flash Gordon battles sinister Orientals in outer space. Superman defends Truth, Justice, and the American Way. The public wants the old heroes, the old stories: ancient themes provide the grist for almost all American movies. Whether this does indeed say anything important about America's collective unconscious is an elastic point, and one easily stretched to banality...
Eastern Air Lines, working with a Miami-based company called In-Flight Communications, has begun an advertising program that makes no such claim. Eastern on many flights has shown one-minute ads for Lanier dictating equipment and the familiar Hertz television film clip of O.J. Simpson flying like Superman through the air toward his rent...
...Ronald Reagan, and nearly midnight in Algiers, where Deputy Secretary of State Warren M. Christopher was trying to nail down the last elements of the deal to free the 52 American hostages. Christopher picked up the phone that connected him directly to the White House. Using his code name, "Superman," he was immediately put through to the President, and, in comparing notes on the latest impasse in the bargaining, the two men came up with a ploy. When he hung up the receiver, Christopher ordered his State Department plane readied for takeoff at noon, Washington time, the next day, when...