Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nevertheless, Rubinstein's sympathy never completely blinds him to his subject's many ambiguities. The Ilya Ehrenburg who emerges from Tangled Loyalties is not a heroic man, but he is marvelously complex, as fascinating as the era he lived through. Tangled Loyalties must be of interest to anyone concerned about the troubled relationship between art and politics, both in the last century and in the century about to start...
COURAGE UNDER FIRE (July 12). Denzel Washington, who 12 years ago played a G.I. under investigation in A Soldier's Story, is the righteous sleuth this time in a Desert Storm inquiry involving Meg Ryan. Solid stars, both. But when a trailer revs up its heroic music and asks, "What is courage? What is honor? What is truth?" you may ask yourself: Am I quite noble enough to see this movie...
Your scathing article "fly till i die" was right on the money. What a heroic indictment of child exploitation. Young Jessica had absolutely no freedom of choice regarding her right to life, liberty or the pursuit of a normal education. Most of her teachings came from her self-appointed guru mom Lisa Hathaway, who, in a supposed quest to give her daughter freedom, imbued Jessica with Hathaway's own airhead philosophy. No wonder the kid wanted to fly! It makes no sense for Hathaway to call a nose dive to the ground a "state of joy." CYNTHIA HEBNER Wyckoff...
Despite his denials, bin Laden remains a grave concern to those "corrupt regimes." He is, as a U.S. official said, a "big fish," since his heroic reputation gives him influence. According to this official, "Bin Laden is the kind of guy who can go to someone and say, 'I need you to write out a six-figure check,' and he gets it on the spot. He hits up Islamic businessmen who in some cases may not know where their money is going. A lot of it isn't going to rebuild mosques in Bosnia or feed starving Muslims in Somalia...
What does the Jackie Onassis auction tell us? some things that we already knew, and some that we didn't. We knew that there were always two Jackies, really. One was moving and heroic and cultivated, the possessor of a detached dignity that kept us fascinated. The other was a girl who was just a little too interested in money, which was not moving or heroic at all, and certainly not cultivated...