And its influence has even spread to that great bastionof sobriety and conformity, that very fortress ofgood taste and sensible living, the officials' room at Catterick racecourse, North Yorkshire.
For anyone who has been wondering how Superman, our bastionof truth, justice and above all else, good , could be driven to the point he is currently at, he is kind enough to spell it out to Bruce.
It is therefore a good sign that the court, often seen as a stern bastionof Turkey's secular fundamentalists, has now shown itself to be sensitive to outside opinion in this way.