Word: heroicizes
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...again in August from a smoothly run G.O.P. convention. His selection of the energetically gifted Jack Kemp, whom Dole had reviled for years, was widely praised. But Dole's verbal and tactical missteps took their toll, confirming the electorate's fast-hardening negative verdict: Clinton was far from the heroic ideal, but Dole simply wasn't up to the job. Facing the hostility of many women voters, Dole tried modifying his antiabortion stance. He called for a "declaration of tolerance" in the G.O.P. platform's pro-life plank. "That's non-negotiable," he said, but quickly caved...
...just a festival of youth, in which college-age dreamers come to live in dorms, meet new friends and learn about the world. And, in doing so, they teach us about the four other Olympic qualities that the fairy-tale Olympian mythically has to conquer: excellence (in the heroic third-straight gold of 4-ft. 11-in. Turkish weight lifter Naim Suleymanoglu); integrity (in the radiant face of Jonathan Edwards, the British triple jumper who said he was thrilled to get silver and made you believe it); sportsmanship (in the tears of American Lindsay Davenport after she beat her "very...
While the more cynical might consider the movie's comic-book enthusiasm somewhat corny, "Independence Day" nonetheless provides a welcome departure from the standard, snide action fare because of its cheerful attitude. And at least heroic speeches are better than the facetious emotion of Schwarzeneggar's thumping his chest in "Eraser" and declaring that the real "you" is "in heah." Here is one movie that, with "Forrest Gump" innocence, will not make you furious when its box office gross exceeds the GNP of one or two small nations...
...conspiracy), and this week, in Phenomenon, John Travolta undergoes a mysterious hoisting of his IQ and psychic powers. The season has already been a sweltering one for blockbusters: Twister has earned more than $215 million at the U.S. box office, Mission Impossible more than $160 million. But ID4, with heroic humankind battling an army of soulless space lizards, may well be the biggest. Says Steven Spielberg, who evoked the wonder of interplanetary communication in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: "I could never make an evil, aggressive alien movie, but I would sure...
...painful beginnings was forged a classic example of what author Colin Wilson called "the outsider," which Frady describes as a "prodigally gifted but displaced loner who undertakes to compensate for his alienation from the world around him by resorting to extraordinary, and often tragic, exertions to reinvent himself in heroic proportions." In Jackson's case that translated into a total identification with the inspiring struggle of the civil rights movement. Unfortunately for him, his quest has played out in the morally murky aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassination, which robbed the movement--and the nation--of the one leader...