Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What a thrilling event: heroic Captain O'Grady and his courageous rescuers. Make room for the real thing, Schwarzenegger and Willis!" Cleary Hinton Lake Charles, Louisiana...
With all the attention O'Grady is getting, let us not forget the thousands of U.N. peacekeepers and the civilians caught in this war. With all due respect to Captain Scott O'Grady, these troops are in no way less heroic because their ordeal will last not merely for six days but for as long as this war continues. Shawn Tan Singapore...
This was the heroic story of Apollo 13, which would have made the third landing on the moon had the in-flight explosion not occurred. And it has been thrillingly captured by director Ron Howard in his latest movie, "Apollo 13," releaed last weekend...
Civil rights advocates have tended to follow this style of advocacy in recent years. The great free speech and civil rights cases of the Warren Court tended to cast rights in terms of one heroic litigant taking on a corrupt system and winning respect for an essentially negative liberty. The right not to be discriminated against, or not to be kept from speaking, were at the root of such great cases as Walker v. Birmingham or New York Times v. Sullivan...
...plot? Umm, we've forgotten it -- probably a threat to Gotham by some bad people -- but we know there was a lot of it. Lots of characters too. Robin (Chris O'Donnell) joins the series, which undercuts Batman's heroic loneliness. Nicole Kidman, as the requisite love interest, is little more than a party decoration. And two villains are too many. Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face and Jim Carrey as the Riddler have dueling star turns, with Carrey winning, of course; he can torture the most innocent banalities, like a simple "Well, yes," into delirious comedy...