Word: heroisms
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...left side not only pushes the plane left (because the right engines are the only ones pushing forward) but also causes the dead engine wing to drop. As the Concorde struggled to gain altitude, its dead wing began acting like a weight, slowly turning the plane left. The heroism later attributed to Marty for flying away from the nearby village of Gonesse may have been misplaced. By that point, the jet was probably out of control...
...titled "Midland Values." For those who market Bush, highlighting his Midland roots is a way to counter a competing impression of the man as a callow, underachieving product of a wealthy, East Coast elite. For a candidate short on biography, Midland solves a problem. There's no wartime heroism in Bush's past or a hardscrabble beginning. This is someone who concedes he was something of a mess until he was 40. For Bush's imagemakers, Midland provides terra firma, a place to anchor Bush in the popular imagination...
...wrong--and with bead-eyed, lipless creatures who have more lower teeth (six or eight) than upper (four). These features give his characters a perpetually dazed expression, as if they've been beaten goofy by life's inequities and iniquities. Simply to keep going is an act of heroism...
Then, too, there is the matter of permanence. Memorials have always been useful to societies to establish and confirm common values, to send messages to posterity about what is significant and worth preserving. Statues, tombs, arches, pyramids, obelisks: all have stood for abstractions such as heroism, sacrifice and valor. A place like the Oklahoma City Memorial or the Vietnam Memorial can send its own messages by challenging the simplicity of such values. By questioning what has been appreciated without examination--the glorification of war, for instance--a monument becomes a statement of values itself. Old memorials used to honor permanence...
...differences between him and Bush. So now when it behooves him, he casts those marked differences aside? This certainly doesn't sound like the white knight of the government corruption fight. But upon further review it seems consistent with the John McCain that exists beneath the veil of heroism with which the media adorned...