Word: heroicizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there's a heroic generosity about the man that I find enormously appealing. He literally never passed a beggar in the street without giving him money." The softhearted populist is Oscar, not Elvis, and the quote is from English playwright David Hare, whose play about Wilde, The Judas Kiss, opens in New York City this week. Starring Liam Neeson, Hare's play examines the aftermath of the episode when words finally failed Wilde: the trials for "gross indecency" (1890s British legalese for homosexuality) that ended in his imprisonment and ruin but also assured his permanent status as a gay-rights...
Walsh got a less-than-par start from one of hisaces in Saturday's nightcap, and was forced torely on a last-ditch rally in the sixth to avert asweep. Jamieson, who had tossed seven andtwo-thirds heroic innings against Columbia inCambridge last weekend, never found his grooveagainst the Bulldog lineup...
...only major effort to outflank the Germans on the Western Front by sending the navy, and later a large force of the army, to the Mediterranean. At Gallipoli in 1915, this Anglo-French force struggled to break the defenses that blocked access to the Black Sea. It was a heroic failure that forced Churchill's resignation and led to his political eclipse...
...dynasty could not contain the spiraling social and economic unrest, and had mortgaged China's revenues and many of its natural resources to the apparently insatiable foreign powers. It was, Mao later told his biographer Edgar Snow, a time when "the dismemberment of China" seemed imminent, and only heroic actions by China's youth could save...
...admit that at the time I didn't quite know what a prostitute was, but I did know how they were portrayed. They were heroic: beautiful, sexy, rich and independent. They were women on the move, and I wanted to be just like them. At a time when earth-mother chic was just beginning its resurgence, I wanted elegance. My friends begged their parents for Birkenstocks, while secretly I hoped for red stiletto heels. I practised smoking everything from carrot sticks to toothpicks, hoping to find just the right nonchalant gesture to send a curl of imaginary smoke up past...