Word: heroicize
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...theater so fascinated with failure? Could it be the sense of inferiority the American stage occasionally displays towards the European? The jealousy of the theater towards the mega-successful cinema? An expression of the neurotic personalities typical of live performers? Perhaps the theater cannot represent the heroic or estimable man without having him bursting into song or a nice two-step. Bobby, raised on the Rifleman and Gunsmoke, discovers that the last of the working class heroes is dead; not only have cowboys disappeared, but their ideals are bankrupt in the urban jungle. The modern hero, such...
...site last fall (at a cost of $400,000). It does not spoil the memorial, as the art mandarins had warned. The three U.S. soldiers, cast in bronze, stand a bit larger than life, carry automatic weapons and wear fatigues, but the pose is not John Wayne-heroic: these American boys are spectral and wary, even slightly bewildered as they gaze southeast toward the wall. While he was planning the figures, Sculptor Frederick Hart spent time watching vets at the memorial. Hart now grants that "no modernist monument of its kind has been as succcessful as that wall. The sculpture...
...plan. Now he is in California trying to sell Hollywood capitalists on his latest project: a movie about the last years of D'Artagnan and the aging three musketeers. The creator of the 1984 Soviet film Kindergarten describes his new script as a "sparkling tragedy" about the "relationship of heroic people with the Establishment. I think the majority of humanity are unrealized musketeers." He talked to Jack Nicholson about playing D'Artagnan, but is prepared to take the job himself if necessary. Says Yevtushenko with a hint of sparkle: "It's absolutely my part, but it is difficult to direct...
...sheer quantities of capital ($2.8 billion) and steel (1.3 million tons) and humans (110,000 employees) that he must commit to producing 2 million vehicles a year. Iacocca likes it best when he can make managing a car company seem like a martial task, urgent and vast and possibly heroic...
However, Director Harold Becker does succeed in capturing the excitement of wrestling and athlete training. A la Rocky, Louden's training is exciting. His heroic--in fact, lunatic--efforts to reduce his body fat and muscle up for the big wrestling showdown with Shufe produces a strange thrill. He runs the miles to his room-service job in a downtown hotel, and foregoes any and all nourishment. He drop the weight so quickly that his nose bleed during practice. We feel his nervous anticipation as he waits in the locker room. His wrestling is not just a sport...