Word: goliath
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...pride captured perfectly, if unwittingly, the country's paradoxical fate: having prevailed over a superpower, Viet Nam has yet to come wholly to grips with itself. The nine aging Politburo members who waved stiffly from a reviewing stand could relish the memory of how they had stripped the American Goliath of $150 billion, 58,022 lives and, for a while, some of its self-confidence. But ten years after its moment of glory, the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam has little else to cheer about. Its army, the world's fourth largest (1.2 million men), remains...
...brought to it a renewed sense of design. Caravaggio's work moves from clutter toward the irreducible: tracing their signs for energy and pathos in the dark, his bodies acquire a formidable power of structure. Sometimes it is very clear; the figure of David holding up the head of Goliath (the Goliath is a self-portrait, a striking rehabilitation of a "monster" as heroic victim) has the abruptness of an ideogram. Elsewhere it is subtler: the geometry of his Saint Catherine consists of two triangles, one formed by the saint's gleaming upper body and dark skirt, the other...
...United States Football League's scrappy new hero, Doug Flutie has been cast in the role of David trying to lift Goliath. After losing $100 million in its first two years, the league is pinning its latest hopes on the star power of Flutie, Boston College's miracle missile launcher and now New Jersey's , littlest General. But the U.S.F.L. started its third season last week long on pricey players, short on revenues and looking down the barrel of its own decision to take on the towering National Football League with a switch to a fall schedule in 1986. Even...
...loved him in the Old Testament. Well, here he is again, ladies and germs: the guy who put the kibosh on Goliath; the main squeeze of the lovely and talented Bathsheba; the papa of Solomon, an extremely influential person in his own right; and, last but not least, a close personal friend of the Man Upstairs. A King of Israel once, a prince of comedy now. Let's hear a really warm welcome for (buh-duh-dump-dump) David...
...call him a giant. His teeth, not Bathsheba's, were like a flock of sheep that have been even shorn. With her it was merely flattery. But everything about Goliath was larger than life. I have to chortle even now at the violent transformations he underwent when it finally began to dawn on him why I was there .. . How he howled and roared when he finally recovered from his initial moment of shock. You'd think he'd been speared in the liver. For forty days he had asked of the Israelites that they send down...