Word: heroisms
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...straightforward. But I have to find a story that I can tell about myself. And revealing things about yourself is so difficult." It's an easy trick for the typical contemporary author; every sentence is an advertisement for himself. But Bennett is discreet-which these days amounts to literary heroism...
...mini-series. The list of troubled sports stars goes on and on. Tennis prodigy Jennifer Capriati's substance abuse. Incorrigible rebounder Dennis Rodman's hairstyling and discipline problems. And, of course, Tonya Harding. It all makes you wonder if there is any hope for sports heroism...
...wife (Gong Li) are bankrupted, then branded as decadent curs. But the pestilence is not localized; every family suffers. In the '60s, doctors are locked up, leaving the hospitals in the control of those bullying incompetents, the Red Guards. All that keeps the country together is the stalwart heroism of millions of families like Fuqui...
...luck, like Gump's, was often built on the backs of people who suffered off-screen. Forrest had bankrupt shrimpers, martyred Vietnam buddies, and his wife, whose death was remarkably demure, considering her ailment. Reagan scored points off America's poor; somehow managed to cloak himself in heroism while apologizing for a needless screw-up that killed 241 U.S. servicemen in Beirut; and avoided tarnishing his reputation for optimism by spending too much time on AIDS...
...money cannot explain the acts of heroism that occurred on Storm King Mountain. In Missoula, Montana, Quentin Rhoades, 28, holds his baby daughter Rachel and talks about his longtime friend and fellow smoke jumper Don Mackey, 34. They and nine other Missoula colleagues had moved from a fire in New Mexico up to the Storm King site, where they spent Tuesday night chain-sawing trees for a firebreak. When the winds blew up the next afternoon, Rhoades and some of his teammates were lost and "getting spooked." Then they ran into Mackey, their leader, who pointed them toward a safe...