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Codi certainly does not imagine herself a heroine when she arrives in Grace. "I felt emptied-out and singing with echoes, unrecognizable to myself: that particular feeling like your own house on the day you move out." Codi believes that the brave one in the family is her sister Hallie, three years younger, who has gone to Nicaragua to help peasant farmers. "I'd spent a long time circling above the clouds, looking for life, while Hallie was living...
...brave movie star who knowingly subverts the values implicit in his own image. It is a brave director who will guide him through a performance that satirizes the grand manner of one of recent movie history's most revered auteurs and, in the end, devastates the great man's macho posturings. Obviously, Clint Eastwood, who both plays John Wilson -- read that as John Huston -- and directs White Hunter, Black Heart, has more gumption than, say, Dirty Harry Callahan. After all, the short-fused San Francisco cop only had to face down outrageous criminals. Having committed this iconoclastic vision of Huston...
...figures suggested that on the average, the 3,000 people living there would make more tending to tourists and hunters than from ranching and farming. Writer Douglas Coffman, who helped Scott, saw even more: a chance to recapture a bit of the original American heart, something brave and wild. Coffman, who is writing a novel about the return of the buffalo -- the fulfillment of a prayer in an old Indian song -- even tracked down the site near Jordan, Mont., where the Smithsonian's William Hornaday in 1886 found the last of the wild bison. He killed 25 of them, took...
...weeks ago, a brave 19-year-old patriot drove a bomb-laden car into an Iraqi Army barracks, killing over 30 soldiers and herself. Such resistance seems to be growing stronger with each day, as more repatriated Kuwaitis sneak past the border troops, and as the resistance groups become more organized...
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