Word: heroicize
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...connecting him to painters in the stream of French and Belgian Symbolism: Gustave Moreau, Puvis de Chavannes, Fernand Khnopff. Burne-Jones' morbid hypersensitivity was what made him a genuinely advanced figure in Symbolist eyes, and it is the trait that is bringing him back into popularity today, now that "heroic," confrontational Modernism is losing its mandate in our fin de siecle...
...unusual shapes. The billowing roof of the chapel at Ronchamp, France, resembles a nun's wimple; the studios of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard push out of the building like huge cellos. For the state capital of Chandigarh in India, he created a temple precinct of heroic structures that appear prehistoric...
...doubles, co-captain Tom Blake attempted to make a heroic return from a nagging hamstring injury that has sidelined him for much of the year, but the fairy-tale did not play itself out. Blake teamed with freshman Scott Clarke, and the duo struggled en route to an 8-6 loss to Hisham Hemeda and Sherif Zaher...
That's why Baxter and his colleagues are betting that the public will be more excited by yesterday's heroic tomorrow than today's more jaundiced one. Given that the nation's most prominent exemplar of earnest, old-fashioned futurism is Al Gore, it's not a bad wager...
...TRUMAN SHOW (June 5). Truman Burbank is the only man on earth who doesn't know he's the star of a popular 24-hour soap opera. As Truman, Jim Carrey inhabits director Peter Weir's bogus universe with a heroic gentility. But will Carrey's rowdy fans skip Truman? Or will the audience that might appreciate an adult parable stay home because, hey, it's just a Jim Carrey movie? One industry savant says not to worry: this canny film will reach both groups and gross $200 million...