Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like Orville and Wilbur Wright, still want to fly free like birds. Now and then at this mecca of private aviation, the towering cumulus clouds are sundered by warbirds like the gull-winged Corsair, the kind the Jolly Rogers squadron flew in the Pacific, lovingly restored by men with heroic memories and oversize checkbooks (half a million dollars...
...Filmmakers often say the American public doesn't want complicated films full of thought," says Field, who is outstanding as the heroic mom in this edgy valentine. "They are wrong. They underestimate the intelligence of the American audience." But does Forrest Gump make you think? No, it makes you feel -- or, at best, makes you think about what you feel, and about how long it has been since a movie found those remote corners of sympathy and sentiment...
Angela's death renewed the debate over whether her doctors had made the right choice in attempting such heroic surgery in the first place. Doctors at Chicago's Loyola University Medical Center, where the twins were born, had advised against any intervention. But Philadelphia's O'Neill insists that the child had a reasonable chance of recovery. "We never believed that it was a 1% chance. If we thought that it was not a reconstructible heart except for a snowball's chance in hell, we would have advised against it. We take long odds every day, but not crazy odds...
This memorial event defined democracy and liberty anew for a wondering world bogged down in complexities and cultural doubts. Scholars like Stephen Ambrose, author of a new book on D-day, put the meaning in simple but heroic terms: "The greatest event of this century." Some might argue, but not the men who struggled ashore through the slaughter and their individual terror...
...addition to those heroic performances, were the performances of a bevy of faceless freshmen and sophomores who had the task of picking up the team's slack shoved at them at various points in the year...