Word: heroicize
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Cyberspace plays a central role in the cyberpunk world view. The literature is filled with "console cowboys" who prove their mettle by donning virtual- reality headgear and performing heroic feats in the imaginary "matrix" of cyberspace. Many of the punks' real-life heroes are also computer cowboys of one sort or another. Cyberpunk, a 1991 book by two New York Times reporters, John Markoff and Katie Hafner, features profiles of three canonical cyberpunk hackers, including Robert Morris, the Cornell graduate student whose COMPUTER VIRUS brought the huge network called the INTERNET to a halt...
...minds of Quarterly editors, Hillary is a far more heroic figure--high-profile, untarnished, apparently strong. She made the transformation from frowzy brown hair and Coke-bottle glasses to faux blonde locks and contact lenses. She also has brains, wit and a great resume...
Some people think wrestlers are crazy. Some think they are heroic. But everybody knows they're tough...
...idea infused with the conviction thatAmerica's long heroic journey must go foreverupward...
...draw it on the left. The left had an entrenched political party (Communist) and clear foreign enemy (the Soviet Union), association with which was a prima facie reason for excommunication. But the task of the right is not impossible. In the '50s and '60s, William F. Buckley led a heroic and successful effort to purge conservatism of its anti-Semitic and neofascist elements. More recently, the Republican Party excommunicated David Duke...