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...about the ransacking of Cheng's home, her confinement to a tiny cell for 6 1/2 years and the murder of her daughter, Blake Hardy wrote, "I think that was horrible what they did to you, and for no reason at all! I feel that you are a very brave and courageous lady." Warren Driessen was blunt: "Sometimes I bet you would like to punch all those people." The children were struck by Cheng's assertion "I would rather die than tell a lie" and her refusal to confess to trumped-up charges...
...admire your courage." Declared Nickie Borley: "I would have died if they put me through that kind of pain." Said Jacquie Hollingsworth: "I'm not sure that I would have stood up for what I believed in, like you did, but then again, I'm not half as brave as you are." Nearly all had questions: "Do you have nightmares?" "Do you still have scars from the handcuffs and the kicking?" "Did you ever get a proper apology...
Cheever believed that most people, not just writers, live lives that are charmed with a daily interaction between reality and imagination, and that what impresses us in a writer is not the mystery of the interaction, but the slant that the writer applies to the mystery. Raymond Carver's brave experiments are well worth reading...
COMMISSAR. A tough officer of the Soviet Army gets pregnant and, in the company of a Jewish family, finds humanity. This brave, Soviet-made parable was banned for 20 years. Its liberation is glasnost's greatest gift to movies...
...those who have played camp roles. No one confused Robert Preston with his outrageous queen in Victor/Victoria, Tom Courtenay with his prissy, mincing backstage assistant in The Dresser, or William Hurt with his flamboyant spinner of dreams in Kiss of the Spider Woman. All three were thought to be brave, tour de force performances...