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...What a pop singer could look like. Physically not a heroic figure (his song-publishing company was called Dwarf Music), Dylan nonetheless had a compelling presence: the voluptuous lips nearly hidden by his harmonica holder, the untelling eyes under a brakeman's cap. He didn't have as much influence on performing styles as Mick Jagger - he was a static figure, while Jagger's stage-sprawling struts set the fashion for rock-band lead singers - but he notarized the dress-down look for pop performers...
...picture covers (1942-43) the underground had only 600 members (more joined later) so there wasn?t much they could do but try to save their own skins. But he seems to feel that it was better that there was a resistance - something on which to build a heroic myth after the nation?s abject surrender - than if there were not, and after seeing this film, one has to agree. Somebody had to do something, even if it was largely symbolic. And they did, at least, tie up a lot of German troops as they slipped through the shadows...
...obviously put up with Haskin?s intrusion to get out the message that we all must care for our wounded. Our representatives sent them there; we need to nourish them when they return, in whatever shape. Jeremy?s folks seem an extraordinary loving family, every bit as ordinary and heroic as he, His mother, especially, is a warm mountain of caring. "It?s never going to be what it was," she says...
...cutting costs and improving productivity. So, if the truly "normal state of affairs" prevails in France, some watered-down version of Villepin's employment measures may well creep through at some point in the future. France is spectacularly good at saying non. Naysayers are often fêted in heroic, Joan-of-Arc terms; when the student demonstrations exploded in March, Paris Match ran a thrilling cover photo of two young people locked in a dance-floor embrace in front of a cordon of riot police. But behind the scenes, more quietly and with no discernible romance, France...
...responsibility for oversight. Many in the media saw the warning signs and heard cautionary tales before the invasion from wise observers like former Central Command chiefs Joe Hoar and Tony Zinni but gave insufficient weight to their views. These are the same news organizations that now downplay both the heroic and the constructive in Iraq...