Word: antiheroics
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...specialness in no way invalidates it. Like Henry James before him, Fowles has created rarefied creatures free enough to take on the toughest question that life offers: How to live? In suggesting that today's seemingly infinite variety of choices need not produce a catatonic or nauseated antihero, Fowles has created both a startlingly provocative novel and a courageous act of willed humanity...
...facing a lone inquisitor who is under no restrictions on what he can ask about those presidential years. A public that may have grown quite weary of Richard Nixon can hardly deny its fearful fascination with, and continuing curiosity about, the man who became and still remains America's antihero...
Nicholas is the definitive antihero; he is also the definitive cliché. No wonder Fabre's life is a rubble of rejection slips. Unfortunately, the people who made Love at the Top have not demonstrated the same critical wisdom as Fabré's prospective publishers. They are swept away by the power of such insights as material success corrupts; bedfellows make strange politics; and cash calms many qualms. Director Michel Deville (Benjamin) preaches his simplistic, satiric sermon with the help of a number of attractive women (Romy Schneider, Florinda Bolkan, Miss Birkin), who lend the movie a certain...
Fuller's resounding tenor voice, and the startling facility with which he simultaneously seems cheerfully villainous and cheerfully solid--the salt of the earth, with which even the least courageous of British imperialists could hope to manage to rule the waves--make him an ideal antihero: he'd stand out even more if the rest of the cast, right down to the chorus, weren't so fine. Joshua J. Zimmerberg wheezes through his old retainer's role in high style. Kerry McCarthy is as good, as Rose Maybud, the soprano. And Douglas H. Hunt, as Fuller's foster-brother, trying...
...then was the first man to verify beyond doubt reaching the North Pole on a journey over the ice? Revising history is frequently a comedown for the hero (and antihero) worshiper. But for the record: it was not one man at all but a U.S.-Canadian team led by one Ralph Plaisted of Minnesota. The party arrived April 19, 1968, without so much as a mush. They were riding Ski-Doos...