Word: heroicizes
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...them don’t even get along. Cheney and Rumsfeld have fought bitterly with Colin Powell for the last decade, and I’m not sure any of them even know who Condi Rice is. It will also not be long until people lose their romantic and heroic notions about Colin Powell. Though Americans love to talk him up as a political godsend who can do no wrong, the hard truth is that the man has rarely, if ever, had a correct political or military instinct. That’s why Powell is largely relegated to figurehead status...
...once knew a man who was a heroic drunk. He left mess and destruction in his wake - broken glasses, smashed furniture, bounced checks, bitter and exhausted wives. His motto, which he stole from the British classicist Benjamin Jowett, was a line he would slur grandly to the barroom after 10 or 12 drinks: "Never apologize! Never explain...
...John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) is on a crusade to rescue democracy in America. With his rakish grin and heroic silver mane, McCain promises to deliver us from the ills of a corrupt campaign finance regime. His ragtag band of rebels, including those muckraking scamps at The New York Times and the Washington Post, wages a guerrilla campaign against the Establishment. The amazing thing is that he hasn’t yet been offed by The Man, a fat fellow smoking Cohiba cigars in a cavernous K Street office who commands legions of anti-McCain lackeys—a deceptively...
...excerpts, hardly scintillating as drama (George Bartenieff, a co-adapter, plays Klemperer adequately). Still, it digs into a fascinating and unfamiliar chapter in the Holocaust story (a Jew who stayed in Germany - and outlasted Hitler!). And it revels in the nuances - notably, a hero who is often less than heroic, and German neighbors who are capable of kindness as well as villainy...
...surely does for Max (played by Jessica Alba, a kind of Angelina Jolie Jr.); she sizes up a man by scanning him from head to crotch. Other Max attributes were once the prerogative of heroic males: a gravity, a radiating inner ache; a past and a quest. She's lonely on top, flirting with potential mates but searching for a mother. In this sense she is a big sullen sister to Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, the Powerpuff Girls. They too are the spawn of a biological experiment. (They also levitate, like the Tiger women.) And though the show is perky...