Word: heroisms
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...first half of the book tells of how Wallenberg became involved in the effort to save the Hungarian Jews and contains eye-witness accounts of many of his heroic and ingenious efforts while in Budapest. Bierman plays up Wallenberg's heroism by contrasting it against the atrocities that were committed in Hungary at the time, especially by Eichmann, Wallenberg's arch-enemy and a man utterly dedicated to Hitler's Final Solution--the absolute extermination of Jews in Europe...
...tasteless gloss on the career-ending disease of Cellist Jacqueline du Pré. But in its London version, there were no easy answers-no answers at all-for this driven young woman. As played by Frances de la Tour, she was a figure of shy, rueful dignity who achieved heroism by confronting her despair...
True, the Minutemen did pull off a 57-per-cent performance (versus a respectable 50 per cent for the Crimson), but part of that may be connected to Harvard's lapses into complacency in the zone. When Smith and Russell continued their hot-dogging heroism in the second half, a little man-to-man pressure might have been just the thing to bring them down to earth...
...missiles, figments of automated delirium tremens that cannot lose. Even Quix, the most artistic, to abuse an adjective, of video games conceals a destructive end. The player filling in the screen with colored boxes must ultimately succumb to the loneliness of electronic immolation. Video games create artless heroism. The heroes born with the plink of a quarter and the blink of a screen seek an inhuman, mechanical perfection that frustrates their humanity instead of fulfilling it. No enduring legend of the Round Table here; the top ten scores are erased each week. No Walter Mitty could emerge from this stultifying...
Despite these and other sharp performances by Gene Hackman, Gerald Hiken and Jack Kehoe, Reds is essentially the story of Jack and Louise. Diane Keaton's performance shows a species of heroism: unafraid to seem shrill or pouty, she allows Louise's strength to emerge through her decisions to follow Jack and fight him, to walk out of his life and fight to get back in, to be his and still be herself. Beatty, the master charmer, uses a torrent of words and his sweet-faced stare to persuade us that have Jack and his brand of robust...