Word: heroicize
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...toward the irreducible: tracing their signs for energy and pathos in the dark, his bodies acquire a formidable power of structure. Sometimes it is very clear; the figure of David holding up the head of Goliath (the Goliath is a self-portrait, a striking rehabilitation of a "monster" as heroic victim) has the abruptness of an ideogram. Elsewhere it is subtler: the geometry of his Saint Catherine consists of two triangles, one formed by the saint's gleaming upper body and dark skirt, the other by the attributes of her martyrdom: the sword tipped with a red reflection from...
...complicated matter. Lewis is probably the best athlete in the world, though definitely not the best liked. The problem is his disposition: people ask more of him than he requires of himself. He perplexed them last summer by prompting expectations he did not attempt to fulfill. That is, no heroic measures were taken or, even for the sake of decency, feigned. All he did was win four gold medals...
...suffering. His love scenes with the fresh-faced Suzanna Hamilton (Julia) are as tenderly pathetic as the tiny, dilapitated room in which they take place. He is dwarfed by a huge video screen as he sits hunched and writes in his diary, an action that seems both puny and heroic. Throughout the film, Hurt never loses that peculiar combination of hope and fatalistic dread that at the same time motivates and restricts Winston...
...suffering. His love scenes with the fresh-faced Suzanna Hamilton (Julia) are as tenderly pathetic as the tiny, dilapitated room in which they take place. He is dwarfed by a huge video screen as he sits hunched and writes in his diary, an action that seems both puny and heroic. Throughout the film, Hurt never loses that peculiar combination of hope and fatalistic dread that at the same time motivates and restricts Winston...
...five, Albert's 40-minute, four-movement symphony was the best, as much for what it represented as for its considerable technical accomplishment. A frank invocation of the spirits of Mahler, Stravinsky and Sibelius in its late romantic thematic materials, its grandiose orchestration and its heroic reach, RiverRun would probably have been laughed off the stage 20 years ago by Albert's colleagues as impossibly regressive. If anything, the grand-gestured RiverRun is not enough of a throwback, bashfully pulling back at crucial moments as though Albert, 43, did not fully trust his expansive instincts. The conservative spirit is scarcely...