Word: heroicizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead, we are reveling in the glory of a 19-1 regular season. The heroic Floyd S. Stahl had just led the Crimson to its finest season ever. A scant two seasons before, Stahl led Harvard to its worst start in basketball history (0-9). (Remember, the present has yet to happen...
...Harlem drag balls, gents parade in costumes and personalities of their own baroque creation. Jennie Livingston's thrilling documentary is not just about what it means to be a member of the triple minority of gay black transvestites. It is a testament to the desire -- pathetic, heroic, overwhelming -- that all dreamers have for transcendence...
...Costner's coiled heroic presence is one more source of controversy, for the liberal icon of Dances with Wolves and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is playing Jim Garrison, who as New Orleans district attorney in the late '60s prosecuted the only Kennedy assassination case that ever went to trial. And, quickly, out the window. The jury found the defendant, businessman Clay Shaw, not guilty in less time than last week's West Palm Beach jurors took to exonerate William Kennedy Smith. For the past decade, Garrison (who appears in JFK as Chief Justice Earl Warren) has been part...
Besselink's basket ended Harvard's heroic come-from-behind 9-3 run, which saw the Crimson take its first lead, 61-60, in 11 minutes with a half-minute to play...
...German invaders," he said. In Red Square the next day, he again sought to rein in the panic and rally the country. Under a sky ringed with antiaircraft blimps, with artillery fire echoing and under constant threat of Luftwaffe attack, the Soviet leader evoked the glories of Russia's heroic past -- Alexander Nevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin; he also, of course, included Lenin in this pantheon. "The enemy is at the gates of Moscow and Leningrad," he said. "The war you are waging is a war of liberation, a just war." He thundered, "May you be blessed by great Lenin's victorious...