Word: fearless
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...Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. and Gilles Mora, it's an enjoyable reminder that Sheeler was in the first ranks of American photographers. As a painter, he now seems less adventurous than quasi-abstractionists of the same era, such as Arthur Dove and Stuart Davis. As a photographer, he was fearless...
...where he's in a white gown, white face paint, and he's wearing a hat that's an ice bucket, and there's a midget dressed exactly like him on his shoulder," he says. "And he's acting like it's Shakespeare! But it threw me. He's fearless, and I think every artist should embrace a certain amount of that...
SKINS. Chris Eyre, director of Sundance favorite Smoke Signals, returns with another fearless survey of the afflictions of Native American reservation life: poverty, alcoholism and inadequate education. Lakota police officer Rudy Yellow Lodge and his self-destructive Vietnam vet brother Mogie, raised with Mount Rushmore looming above them, deal with their history and their anger at one another. Having created tragicomedy that is unstintingly political, Eyre put his money where his mouth was—this past month, his “Rolling Rez” tour took a mobile theater and screened the film free of charge at Indian...
...Once proclaimed “King of the Quarterbacks” by his local newspaper during his high school playing days in Lawrence, Mass., Murphy frequently outperforms those with even the cleanest bills of health. Whatever hardships the diabetic in Murphy has encountered have usually given way to the fearless side of him, the side that literally leaps over obstacles as a hurdler for Harvard’s track teams...
...account of the family Rezmovitz, who lived in a part of what was then Hungary and is now Romania. "Jewish fanatacism shone in his face," says his grandson Andor. Abraham was known for thumping children with a stick if they failed in their recitations. But he was also fearless: once leaping into a whirlpool on the River Tisza in his flowing black caftan to rescue a drowning child. On another occasion, when a local bailiff came to extract a bribe and ended up trying to run off with a tefillin, a sacred phylactery, Abraham attacked him mercilessly...