Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here comes the really inspired part -- every 10 minutes or so, circumstances require him to kick a little butt. This he does with a panache that ensures the yipping pleasure of all the young males in the house and, since this heroic figure is also a really cute guy, the gurgling approval of their dates...
...here is Rudnick, spinning his bedside stories to people in desperate need of the bright light of his wit. In the age of AIDS, there is something heroic about the task he has set himself: to put the gay back...
...Hudson River Landscape, Smith's pre-eminence in American sculpture was complete: he could draw with steel in space with as much fluency as with pencil on paper, creating metaphors that mingle the organic and the mechanical in an unstoppable lyric eloquence. He imagined his work connected to the heroic tradition of American technology. "My aim," he wrote in 1952, "is the same as in locomotive building: to arrive at a given functional form in the most efficient manner." Sculpture's iron age, in such hands, was also a golden...
...were not surprised when Powell's inflexible, party-line stance on maintaining the ban on homosexuals in the military was made evident--he is, after all, a career soldier steeped in army rhetoric. But we were disappointed. Powell was one of the few heroic figures of the Reagan Bush era (and one of the few not indicted). As chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Powell could have done the right thing and helped President Clinton eradicate this pointless discrimination. Instead, Powell will go down in history as one more military leader who didn...
...brew. Slivovitz, plum brandy, taken in great quantities, starting at breakfast time, is another; alcohol numbs the conscience and lubricates the trigger finger. The sacrament of slivovitz -- though some get there without it -- helps keep Serbs, both fighters and sideline supporters -- in that fourth dimension of tribal passion where heroic patriotism and great atrocity become equally possible. This is the dimension of tribal memory, drifting in time, across centuries. Grievances float through the dimension like ghosts, crying out for justice -- for the Serbs whom the Croats massacred during the Hitler years, say, or for those Serbs who died...