Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suspense as he pursues his harried hero to a brilliant climactic confrontation with the enemy in the Swiss Alps. And he gains much in terms of audience identification with, and genuine concern for, a man who, like the rest of us, would cheerfully have allowed the heroic cup to pass him by, but grips it with enviable firmness when there is no other choice...
...sublimity, all Newman's sculptures look imposing. Here they might as well be garden gnomes. Not so with the work of David Smith, represented by ten sculptures across the lawn. But then Smith's work was always conceived in terms of landscape or, more exactly, the heroic domination of landscape by icon; it is essentially outdoor and declamatory sculpture. Thus the silver tracery left by Smith's disc grinder on the stainless steel only comes alive in sunlight; spotlights kill it. Smith's constructions of forged and welded iron, like Wagon II, 1964, also force themselves...
Thirteen years ago, Rudolf Nureyev, the first Kirov refugee, astonished Western audiences with his heroic bursts of explosive movement, animal magnetism and sheer showmanship, not to say showboatery. Baryshnikov is a dancer of equal authority but far different style. He is short, and his slightly chunky body seems to belong to a superb athlete as well as an artist. He floated Makarova overhead as though she had no more substance than a chiffon gown. His phenomenal double turns in air and grands jetês were done with a breathtaking ease that did not call attention to itself...
...America's abundance," she has written, "was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests." Of Greenspan's new job, Rand, 69, said last week: "I think it's an heroic undertaking...
...what's going on in the Mediterranean now is anything but farfetched. Spain marked the end of a peculiar epoch in modern history, a time when intellectuals dared to commit themselves to political causes, to believe passionately in them and to fight for them. It was an heroic era, and Rossif's film is in part a memorial to that heroism. Showings begin at 7 and 9:30, admission...