Word: heroicize
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...eating roots. He favored James Bond and Daffy Duck in his collection of some 20,000 videotapes. He was a lush who once showed up at a meeting so drunk that his father had him thrown out. Nobody had heard him utter anything more than "Glory to the heroic Korean People's Army!" He had a Howard Hughes-like obsession about germs, was so paranoid that he would have rivals purged, so ruthless that he was accused of masterminding a plot to assassinate a South Korean President and to down an airliner. He wore shoe lifts...
...attract! The problem is not just that Jackson, normally as good an actor as they come, is to Roundtree what George Lazenby, who played James Bond in the deservedly forgotten On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), is to Sean Connery. It's that instead of updating the heroic Shaft of the '70s to fit the ambiguous racial climate of the new century, the makers of this disgraceful film have pulled the character inside out and transformed him into a thug. If this Shaft were a real-life member of New York City's Finest, he wouldn't be tracking...
...rather unworldly. They are similar in dress, zip code, outlook and philosophy to the Berkeley free-speech activists of the early 1960s, except that the cypherpunks have a bigger megaphone: the Internet. They can encrypt free speech and software as well, so various uptight authority figures cannot stop their heroic data...
Strauss hands the narrating chores to Eng, the twin on the right-hand side of the pair, who gradually emerges as a convincingly persuasive and heroic presence--intelligent (he reads Shakespeare while Chang sleeps, sometimes resting the book on his brother's forehead) and refreshingly matter-of-fact about his preposterous physical fate...
...Against Princeton, Ewing was heroic. Hit with his fourth foul with 9:26 to play, Ewing nimbly and carefully frustrated the Tigers' big men like a kid playing precariously in an attic full of breakables. He helped hold Young and forward Mason Rocca to just three field goals in the last 10 minutes of regulation. But with 2:57 remaining in regulation and the Crimson clinging to a one-point lead, Ewing caught Rocca on the arm as the latter went up for a put-back, and Ewing was done with five fouls...