Word: heroisms
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...Games are resilient, the Olympic spirit unsinkable, because the Games produce heroes, and it is in the nature of heroism to vanquish all opponents. When a Jim Thorpe or a Wilma Rudolph or a Mark Spitz or a Nadia Comaneci wins an event, he or she has not only defeated an opponent but has also put out of mind the criticism of the Games. Unlikely heroes emerge. Our aspirations and hopes become hitched for a few days or hours to a person whose face we have never seen before and whose name we have never heard...
...golden rules of summer blockbusting are to have an old-fashioned star or to make a sequel to a popular movie. Five of this season's six top-grossing films broke the rules. In summer 2000, the genre was the star: toga epic, Twister at sea, comic-book heroism, a Scream ream and a cutesy Jurassic Park. Moviegoers were in the mood for unofficial remakes--familiar formulas with less famous faces. As CBS's Survivor took 16 nobodies and turned them into summer celebrities, Hollywood made big bucks with the B Team...
...this happened in their grandfathers' time, and the living bear no responsibilities for it. This is Prime Minister Howard's view too, although - significantly enough - he is quick to drape himself in the nobler emblems of Australian history with which his generation had nothing to do, such as the heroism of the soldiers at Gallipoli...
...little, saddling its well-heeled heroes mawkishly with personal burdens to up their sympathy quotient. More unsettling is the subtext of Ditto's crusade. Bull has internalized the trendy, bogus messages of Ameritrade ads, "new-economy" magazines like Fast Company and career gurus like Tom Peters: that entrepreneurship is heroism, that job insecurity is emancipation, that work is art and love and rock 'n' roll. Ditto mocks "the suits...who want to stay [at the firm] for the rest of their lives nice and safe in their little cubicles, papered with guarantees and weekly paychecks. But I thought we were...
...Field leading the textile workers in Norma Rae; even the young Marlon Brando finally realizing, in On the Waterfront, that good union guys could overcome corrupt union leaders. As Woody Guthrie songs were the sound track of America's organized working class, the movies offered snapshots of blue-collar heroism...