Word: heroicizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past, where gambling, boozing and whoring were as rife as popcorn and pizza, most theme parks promote soft drinks and fast foods. They dispense a dizzily dyspeptic array of instant edibles from storefronts with names like Yum Yum Palace, Mustard's Last Stand and the Hokey Pokey. Heroic exceptions to the no-brew stand-up eating syndrome are the Busch Gardens, near Williamsburg, Va., and Tampa, Fla. Since both parks are also the sites of Anheuser-Busch breweries, and their owners are understandably interested in promoting suds consumption, both spots have "hospitality centers" that actually give away beer (Cokes...
MacArthur's troubles stem from what might be virtues in a literary biography-earnestness, caution, balance. Though the moviemakers clearly admire their subject, they are careful, for example, to dramatize his ravening egomania. A staff p.r. man is always present to arrange heroic news photos of the general, and MacArthur's own concern for image is fully laid out. One cannot complain that they have ignored those aspects of MacArthur's nature that his critics deplored. On the other hand, they have not done much with them, which is to say they have tiptoed...
...seeming paradox of the two-bit thief who destroyed one of America's heroic figures is certain to tantalize imaginative minds forever. Ray grew up in a farm shack near Ewing, Mo., in an impoverished, quarreling family that in his early years struggled to survive. His father at times worked at local hauling jobs with a pickup truck, and as a railroad hand. He had also spent two years in prison for larceny. Ray turned to crime, following the precedent of his father, an uncle and a brother. His parents split in 1952, after his mother had become...
...third Roman Catholic saint, was no ecclesiastical superstar, but a priest of simple piety and workaday faithfulness. So much so that Vatican officials who screen candidates for sainthood nearly overlooked him. They shelved his case in 1912 because of serious doubt whether he had displayed the necessary "heroic virtue...
...Bogarde edging his performance as a commanding officer with campy arrogance; Edward Fox catching just the right note of awkwardness as another general trying to be hail-fellow-well-met with his troops; Michael Caine as an Irish Guards officer being at once casual and ostentatious as he strikes heroic poses to in spire his men; Anthony Hopkins being stoical about occupying the most exposed position in the battle. That's all good stuff, but the rest of the film puts one in mind of the legendary English officer who, upon being asked to describe Dunkirk, replied: "My dear...