Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Curtis Gates goes through spells of unemployment, but finally gets a job from his brother's private sponsors who own Encyclopedia Britannica. As we watch family dynamics, the movie yet again reveale the tribulations of inner-city life in the heroic, if resigned, strength of the mothers and the conspicuous absences and non-committal waverings of the fathers...
...poet whose 8,000-line Omeros hijacked Homer to the Caribbean, here packs the major events of the Odyssey into three brisk hours and still has room for his voluptuous metaphor making and severe truth telling ("What are men? Children who doubt"). After a slow start, in which stilted heroic attitudes virtually define Bad Regional Theater, Odysseus appears, in the burly, assured person of Casey Biggs, and the play takes off. Mythology can be fun when Circe is a sassy dominatrix, the Sirens are mermaids out of a Bette Midler show, and Helen of Troy is a peckish, past...
...dishy, tough-talking sergeant in From Here to Eternity, where he took a roll on the beach with Deborah Kerr and made himself a pinup idol. But unlike most earlier male stars, who were straitjacketed in heroic roles, Lancaster could be his own man, choose parts and not worry whether audiences would like him. He always had that measure of confidence in himself: as a young man he left New York University, where he had a basketball scholarship, to join the circus. What showed through was the will not to be somebody, but to do something...
Rabin and Peres, the other recipients, are equally undeserving. They will be awarded the prize for an act of pacifism--giving up force as a means of achieving peace without ensuring responsibility in return. In today's world, this display of pacifism is heralded as noble, even heroic. But pacifism is not peace...
Through his paintings trickles a current of double nostalgia -- on the one hand, for the closed-off "heroic" possibilities of Modernism and, on the other, for the ancient Mediterranean world, experienced at a remove by living in modern Italy. Love (or its facsimile) among the ruins. Twombly will insert "dirty" bits in a painting -- a little graffiti-style penis, odd smears of paint with the look of dried sperm -- in the hope they will enhance some sense of a Baroque cityscape -- but much of the time, they...