Word: heroicize
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...first order of business is to sort out just who or what failed: George Bush or conservatism? Or which mixture of the two? The Washington Post gave its answer when it reported "the end of the age of heroic conservatism" and announced the start...
...Defense Heroic...
Even his one venture on a grand scale was essentially retrospective in nature. Bush early on identified Saddam Hussein as the new Hitler, and he waged World War II against him, recapturing the exhilaration (and the values) of his heroic bomber-pilot days. The Patriot missile was celebrated as if it were the product of some modern Los Alamos. Bush visited the factory for a rally that resembled his trips to flag factories in the 1988 campaign. The Allies were invoked as they had been against the Axis. When victory came in Kuwait, Bush presumed that V-K day would...
...Stone is waiting in the wings to do just that: there are truckloads of Basquiat works in Beverly Hills. The plain truth -- that Basquiat killed Basquiat, that nobody but he was sticking the needles in his arm -- is not going to get much airing at this solemn farce of heroic victimology...
...Heroic Deeds...