Word: flesh-and-blood
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...hero! What an idea! Not an older person who was formerly great, like a De Gaulle or a DiMaggio or a Golda Meir, but an active hero in old age. Fiction gives us such characters from time to time, but reality is too real. The flesh-and-blood old hero may need a special logic to return to the field of conquest. Try this on for size: So much of space exists in the past (dead stars shine). Why shouldn't someone be able to retrieve the past in the future and be young again by being...
There just aren't many flesh-and-blood bad guys left. Radovan Karadzic and most of his Serbian followers certainly qualify, but there was surprisingly good news here last week when Dusan Tadic became the first Serb to be tried and convicted of crimes against humanity...
Egan's performance took all of these troubling factors into account; his Coriolanus was neither purely good nor purely evil, so that the play became a tragedy about a flesh-and-blood human being rather than a superficial historical figure...
...first act, however, it's difficult to tell whether this is going to even be a comedy at all. C.C., played a little over-dryly by Celeste Finn, brings little life to the introductory scenes. She sticks out of her dysfunctional family like a mannequin amidst real flesh-and-blood people. Perhaps the most refreshingly honest moment in all of Act I comes when she turns to her former-lover-turned-brother-in-law Ed, who is begging her to star in his play, and admits, "I really can't act, Ed." Sometimes honesty is the best policy after...
...slight young woman who was elected commander in chief of the students, and whose rallying cries rose above the protesters in 1989. This flesh-and-blood "Goddess of Democracy" escaped the square on June 4, just before the tanks rolled in. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed, and many wonder if the decision by Chai and other leaders not to retreat ultimately led to the bloodshed; she maintains its magnitude could never have been precicted. After hiding for 10 months, Chai eventually reached France (she's saving the details of her escape for a forthcoming autobiography), and was granted political asylum...