Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brightest god in what would become the new polytheism of global celebrity--now perhaps the world's dominant religion. But for Charles Lindbergh, the New York-to-Paris flight, the first solo transatlantic crossing by air, was only the first hop in a more complicated and sometimes less heroic journey...
...mascot, moral and intellectual nudge, best friend to Joe Wenteworth (Joseph Mazzello), who because of his illegitimate birth is a more conventional kind of outcast in their small New England town. Simon, whose tale was suggested by John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, is convinced that a heroic destiny awaits him. How he attains that improbable yet inspirational end, through a chain of mix-ups, mishaps and coincidences of the kind only a perversely playful God (or a writer of Dickensian boldness) could ordain, makes Simon Birch a curiously entrancing, quite unexpected treat...
...President Mandela is one of the heroic figuresof our time," said President Neil L. Rudenstine ina statement...
Marc Klaas of Sausalito, Calif., who became an activist against child molesters after his daughter Polly was kidnapped and killed, spoke at the Berkeley protest. "Fate gave David Cash the opportunity to be heroic, and he turned his back on that opportunity," Klaas declared. "He was in the singular position of being able to save a seven-year-old child, and he chose to do nothing. For that, he will have to answer to his own withered soul forever...
Like his artistic ancestor Chardin or his fellow Nabi Edouard Vuillard, Bonnard was an Intimist. He cared nothing for heroic or historical themes. He had no public life, and his diary was filled not with reflections on art, life or politics but with pencil sketches and occasional notes on the weather. Nor did art theory, avidly debated among some of his painter friends, interest him much...