Word: daredevil
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Gies' modest recounting of her daredevil acts makes goodness seem almost routine, the norm, in a time when monsters ravaged Europe. But that is Blair's point. In war as in peace, Anne's friends showed a bravery they might well shrug off as simple human decency. This harrowing, inspiring film--an antidote to Holokitsch--is their testament. It alerts us that villainy is the rank soil in which heroism can flower...
Broken Arrow, a bomb-ticking chase movie about a daredevil pilot (Travolta) who steals two nuclear weapons, shows how easily the two cinemas can coexist. It flies at the speed of Macho 2 while allowing Woo to unpack his full cinematic arsenal: overhead shots, plenty of steamy atmosphere (Travolta smokes a lot), Cuisinart editing of the action scenes, slow motion to prolong the jitters and, for dialogue scenes that other directors would stand flatfooted and watch, lithe little tracking shots. If film school were fun, Woo would be the nutty professor...
...discover that they were still second-class citizens in the eyes of the military. The Tuskegee units were continually passed over for combat assignments. According to Charles ("Chief") Anderson, who headed the group of African-American civilian flight instructors training the Tuskegee pilots, there were several suicides and daredevil fatalities among the intensely frustrated young flyers. Things began to change when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited Tuskegee in 1941 and, against the advice of her staff, took a test flight with Anderson. It was a well-publicized vote of confidence in the program. Soon the 99th Fighter Squadron was formed...
...agreeing to cut capital-gains taxes. As one Senate aide put it last week, "Dole does not have any concept of the political advantage of losing. There are times when you make your political point better by losing, or at least by risking losing." That pragmatism frustrates the new daredevil Republicans in the Senate. And it marks a distinct contrast with the style of Newt Gingrich, whose entire political career has been a near-death experience...
Kapuscinski is a writer who can make a point. A best-selling author in Poland, he is widely known in the rest of Europe and in America for The Soccer War, a collection of daredevil reportage from the Third World. Imperium too is a bravura performance, a kind of New Journalism about the Old World. As a youth in Soviet-dominated Pinsk, Poland, which is now in Belarus, Kapuscinski saw friends and teachers disappear -- part of Stalin's mass deportation and resettlement program that aimed to replace diverse nationalities with homo sovietus. This misfortune, as a dour professor in Baku...