Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Poland, some with a circulation that exceeded 30,000. Books and pamphlets challenging the authority of the communist government were printed by the thousands. Comic books for children recast Polish fables and legends, with Jaruzelski pictured as the villain, communism as the red dragon and Walesa as the heroic knight. In church basements and homes, millions of viewers watched documentary videos produced and screened on the equipment smuggled into the country...
Obviously then, enhancing girls' self-confidence is not simply a matter of including more stories about heroic women in history textbooks. Judy Logan, a teacher at San Francisco's Everett Middle School, is convinced that girls "learn better in noncompetitive, nonhierarchical ways," so she divides her students into small groups. At Pattonville Holman Middle School in suburban St. Louis, computer teacher Jayne Kasten runs a no-boys F.E.M. (Female Electronic Marvels) Club, in which girls work with new software and demonstrate their know-how in classrooms...
...fatal disease, perhaps, to judge from the number of sufferers who are still hobbling around untreated, but a disease nonetheless, like the flu or TB. And anyone tempted to fault the medical establishment for inaction on breast cancer or AIDS should consider its quiet but no less heroic progress against the scourge of micromastia: in the past 30 years, 1.6 million victims have been identified and cured. Who says our health system doesn't work...
This is not the stuff out of which one easily makes a heroic dove, but Stone, relying on the hagiography that still surrounds the martyred President, blithely does it anyway. All we ever see of the Kennedy Administration are countless agonizing reruns of the fateful motorcade in Dallas, Kennedy's excellent speech at the American University and some of Stone's faux documentaire black-and-white footage of nasty military-industrial types cursing over a note from Bundy that threatens their jobs. (Bundy has said that "I don't think we know what he would have done...
...Harlem drag balls, gents parade in costumes and personalities of their own baroque creation. Jennie Livingston's thrilling documentary is not just about what it means to be a member of the triple minority of gay black transvestites. It is a testament to the desire -- pathetic, heroic, overwhelming -- that all dreamers have for transcendence...