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Macho Man Meets the Million Dollar Man
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costumes, just as visible in Glitterland are Wall Street and West
Berlin.
University of Southern California
Jill Hall
Endnotes
1. Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling," Mythologies,
trans. Annette Lavers (1972 New York: Farrar, 1987) 18.
2. Barthes, 19.
3. All wrestling quotes are from the telecast of the October, 1989
Saturday Night Main Event in Cincinnati, Ohio whose main match
was between The Million Dollar Man and Hulk Hogan.
4. Barthes, 23.
5. Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Berkeley:
California UP, 1985) 110.
6. Barthes, 25.