Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...begin with the word cremaster. The cremaster muscle pulls the testicles up into the body and is an indicator in the fetus of male gender. Everything in the "Cremaster" series swirls dizzily from there: for him, biological destiny is a prison. Escape from it is a heroic act--in fact, a spiritual right. Thus his transmogrified, half-human creatures elsewhere; his fixation on Houdini, the impossibly malleable escape artist; and now his Gilmore, who spent the better part of his adult life in prison, only to be released into the world, where he killed and was executed...
...prepared propaganda statement, as he had not. Rather, it was to cover the possibility that the communists would dub in words to replace his own defiant words and explain why he had agreed to be interviewed. My father received the highest Navy award, the Navy Cross, for his heroic words of defiance, not for his clever blinking. JAMES S. DENTON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Freedom House Washington...
...quite stars playing not-quite supermen. They grow in the roles as they grow comfortable in them. By the end they have cobbled together an A-minus comedy about B-plus people. Every other action picture is about the impossibly outsize Them; this one is about the just barely heroic Us. It's about making the best of your small talents--about looking in the mirror and, despite all evidence to the contrary, smiling back...
...heroic age of game development is over. Once, rival computer game companies strove mightily against each other, slaving until dawn to produce smarter, flashier, and above all faster software from scratch, every time they wrote a game. It was as if Hollywood were reinventing the movie camera every time it made a movie. Now a new trend is sweeping the games industry: instead of writing the software that creates their game world, game designers can buy the code off the rack, prefabricated...
...ascent to real power was his eldest, Joe Jr. When Jack Kennedy made the papers for his exploits as skipper of PT-109, the father sent the press clippings to Joe Jr., then a 29-year-old naval air lieutenant, to provoke him into getting started on his own heroic legend. It worked all too well. In the summer of 1944, Joe Jr. volunteered to fly a plane loaded with explosives into a Nazi missile site. The plan was for him to bail out before the plane struck its target. Instead he was killed when the plane exploded prematurely over...