Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple, the Kents, as they are driving through wheatfields in their truck. Because little Superman has a denser molecular structure, he shows his powers at once. His landing has blown one of the Rents' tires, and the superboy helps out his new, adoptive father by lifting up the whole rear of the rig for the wheel change. At school, Clark, as he is called, can kick a football into the next county. When he is 18, he discovers a magic crystal that Jor-El had put in his crib and is able to talk with the spirit...
Taken as a whole, however, Superman works, and works well. That is all the more surprising because, despite the years of hoopla over Cannes, real production work did not begin until January 1977, when Donner was brought in as director, Barry, 42, was hired as set designer, and Tom Mankiewicz, 35, was asked to do a third rewrite of the script (after Mario Puzo and the team of Robert Benton and David and Leslie Newman...
Some of the entries are predictable and disagreeable. Both Wagners were virulent anti-Semites, occasionally to the point of black comedy. Lamenting, as he often did, the decline of morality and religion, Wagner concluded, "The old Jewish God always ruins the whole thing." Roman Catholics stood little higher in their estimation and they loathed the French too. During the Franco-Prussian War, they summed things up by saying that France "has been undermined by the spirit of the Jesuits...
...Rather than replace McKinney, we're reviewing the operation of the whole graduate school," he said. "Probably the only person who isn't moving is the receptionist," he added...
...least Rocky had some genuinely moving scenes. Stallone gave a sensitive performance and audiences responded to his character's innocence and insecurity. The whole movie seemed so full of good nature, of child-like enthusiasm, that its many weaknesses could be forgiven...