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...this Olympic year, every product is trying to latch on as the official sponsor of international good will, team spirit and lots and lots of money. Ordinary North American supermen--Dan and Dave--have Reebok pumps. Couldn't we all be great athletes like them if we had them...
Teachers have to be more than supermen (and women), and if they can't take the heat, Weld has got an early retirement program to help them get out of the kitchen. No extra incentives for people to take on this crazy job of supereducator were mentioned...
Spike Lee: "A lot of these relationships aren't based on love, but on sexual myths -- that the white woman is the epitome of beauty and that black males are sexual supermen...
...read an early version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence noted, "The story I have to tell is one of the most splendid ever given a man for writing." He also downplayed his own participation in that story, adding, "I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself...
...both sides, the twelve-year Olympic hiatus has heightened the mystique of the competition. For American athletes -- and even more for American fans -- distance and legend have transformed the Soviets into supposed supermen and super-women, selected when barely out of the cradle and taught like emotionless automatons to excel. This exaggerated notion has some basis in fact. The Soviets have a nationwide network of specialized sports schools for even the youngest potential stars, leading to intensive adult training guided by methodical, scholarly study. High-tech training wizardry is rumored to be compounded by steroids and other chemical help: indeed...