Word: fearlessly
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EACH night the television relays messages home from U.S. defense personel in Saudi Arabia. Their faces are shyly grinning, or blushing with embarassment as they talk to the camera. They are fearless--or courageous despite their fear. Perhaps most impressive is that these U.S. service men and women are exactly...
That Fossey impulsively embraced a heart of darkness is obvious. Yet the wild shadows in Hayes' biography are illuminated by what he calls a "miracle of will." Its origin is Fossey's desperation to escape her own loneliness. It made her fearless; it triggered her outrage and outbursts and was the source of her fierce attachments...
...wouldn't let it stop him. When not singing or acting, Blades unwinds by painting watercolors ("mostly faces") or reading (George Orwell and Hunter S. Thompson). His goals include writing and directing a film set in Panama, making a documentary feature and recording an all-instrumental album. Meanwhile Blades' fearless muse is once again pointing him toward uncharted musical waters. "I already know something is brewing," he says. "Some people will be surprised." And a few more walls will come tumbling down...
...treatments, from acupuncture to cocaine-blocking medications like imipramine and desipramine, but there are no quick fixes. In the end, all crack addicts, rich or poor, must put themselves back on their own feet -- a slow process that calls for professional counseling, steady support from family and friends, fearless self-examination and not a little pain...
...greeting card. The saving grace is Joan Allen in the title role. Winner of a Tony Award last year in Burn This, Allen becomes a strong contender to repeat with a performance that displays much the same virtues: an inviting vulnerability, an approach to romance simultaneously fragile and fearless, a wit at once acerbic and diffident. While Wasserstein (Isn't It Romantic?) has written mostly whiny and self-congratulatory cliches for the surrounding characters, she has given Heidi -- or Allen has found -- a complex, self-aware and poignant life...