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Disney may have figured that it had a couple of surefire hits in its pipeline with “The Marvels” and “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” a sequel in that already superannuated series.

But President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is modernizing this superannuated city, fast.

In the opening pages of "The Passenger," we are introduced to an otherworldly character called The Thalidomide Kid who stands three feet tall, is covered with scars, wields flippers for hands "sort of like a seal has" and engages with the doomed heroine via a burlesque of costumes, superannuated puns and double entendre.

The simultaneous inward intensity of feeling and outward diffidence, the emotional and moral dangers of simulation, the hot alien beauty of the city ... it superannuated ‘The Day of the Locust’ and gave either a template or at minimum an inflection to the fiction that came afterward.”

“The Crown” depicts him and Charles holding a private meeting in which a frustrated prince lobbies the prime minister for help in pushing the queen to abdicate because she is superannuated and poses a threat to the monarchy’s survival.