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...Supraman...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: The Banality of Evil | 3/4/1980 | See Source »

...Supraman opened last week at the Law School. It calls itself a parody, and, in a way, it is. The singing is often off-key and almost always bad. The acting is below the level of most House shows, an aesthetic limbo-dance of no mean difficulty. The lyrics and music were written by a dozen people in their various permutations; they are predictably uneven. Consider this snippet from...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: The Banality of Evil | 3/4/1980 | See Source »

...Supraman...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: The Banality of Evil | 3/4/1980 | See Source »

...Supraman...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: The Banality of Evil | 3/4/1980 | See Source »

...coming in for a landing. He is now wearing his flying cape, which is stretched out with wires so that it appears to billow in the wind. The changes made, he goes back into the air, accompanied by cheers from local residents who are hanging out of windows. "Hey, Supraman, why cantcha get the cat?" someone shouts in that rich blend of gravel and adenoids known as Brooklynese. "Thattaboy, Supraman!" yells another when he actually touches the dusty beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Onward and Upward with the New Superman | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

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