Word: heroicize
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...homosexual bond between the two men -- at least until they fall into an unseemly squabble over who actually discovered the source of the Nile -- but also provides an unusual erotic scene between Burton and his fiancee. It is perhaps superfluous to add that neither antihero achieves a heroic...
Though Bob Rafelson's film has epic scope, its attitudes are anything but those of the conventional epic. Yet somehow it conveys, as few movies ever have, the miserable realities that underlay the 19th century's heroic age of exploration. Since it bravely takes up a subject remote from the interests of most of the modern audience, the film itself has about it the air of a grand, ferocious folly. Precisely because it is a high-risk venture in a low-risk movie climate, it deserves one's startled gratitude...
Moskowitz's vividly imposing red windmill alludes to Mondrian's great early paintings of that motif. The side of the Yosemite cliff in The Seventh Sister, 1981, recalls Clyfford Still and, through that, the American Romantic tradition of heroic landscape. Such works do not escape the second-handedness that comes with quoted images, but at least they are quite without smug prophylactic irony...
...burned- out Noonan left the White House in 1986, her nemesis, chief of staff Don Regan, denied her the courtesy of a farewell chat with the President. As the real Reagan kept drifting beyond her grasp, Noonan found solace in the mythic President whom she likened to "a gigantic heroic balloon floating in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade...
...that period, before television converted moving images into visual tranquilizers -- pain and time killers sold over the airwaves without prescription (or proscription) -- they were stimulants to heroic-romantic imaginings. Self-transcendence, if you will. The movies were especially potent in the way they worked on the deprived sensibilities of provincial youngsters. Sneaking out from under parental disapproval, sheltering in the dark under the big, glowing screen, innocently absorbing its fantastic representations of faraway realities, surrendering to the belief that those realities must be true (unendurable to think that the whole world was as constricted as one little corner of Sicily...