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...THIS WHAT SUPERMAN SEES? Terrorists and smugglers routinely hide weapons and drugs on their person. Now technology (developed by American Science & Engineering) enables security personnel to conduct a body search without ordering the removal of a single stitch of clothing. Are you sure you want airline employees to undress you with their eyes...
...criticism are tempered by his keen intellect and the immigrant's perspective on what he found in this country that was utterly different from what he left in Nazi Europe. As a young man, he is struck by the silliness of American attention to newspaper comic strips. He sees Superman as "something out of Nietzsche and vaguely associated with Nazi theories of a master race." But in the same strip he is able to see the positive side to this American absurdity: "I sensed America's ability to domesticate menace and shrink giants...
...light gray, the next room medium gray, and this final room dark gray, set with a few giant portraits like luminous beacons in the dimness. There is Frances Bean Cobain, almost frightening with her enormous eyes. Christopher Reeve, mounted on an elaborate wheelchair, somehow looks just as much like Superman as ever. The exhibition's final statement is a long, large strip of white upon which the figure of Bill T. Jones is repeated over and over again, in different moments of his dance. Frozen in motion, the language of his body is written clearly in the lines that Ritts...
...sweltering air of Ticknor Lounge. Cleemann reiterated a commonly held sentiment about the council as "aristocratic debate society superimposed on a high school dance committee." Kaufman, standing tall with his hands on his hips, exuded Midwestern charm. And Goodman played-stand-up comedian with his "Good Man" (read: Superman) signs and his green plastic mobile dinosaur with yellow mane and blinking red eyes...
...earlier work--a child searching for a lost father--and it lacks the energy and rude gusto of Anywhere but Here. As for Owens, he loses his company, but in the end he is doing just fine on a diet of nuts, fruits and cauliflower, a gentler superman...