Word: heros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue. I now make sexual harassment the issue; it was the issue which created the confrontation, and it is an issue which should not have been suppressed. Homophobia has been highlighted while truth was forced to squirm in the sidelight. The perpetrator of the sexual harassment has become a hero of the cause unjustly, and undeservingly...
...setting combines Depression seediness and underworld glamour in a manner reminiscent of Loon Lake (1980). And this is not the first time Doctorow has written about a boy's coming of age in the Bronx; he did so in World's Fair (1985), even giving its made-up hero his own first name, Edgar. But the author is not simply repeating himself this time out. He is mixing elements from his other novels in a manner that proves combustible and incandescent...
North's strategy, it seems, is to threaten to disclose embarrassing secrets if the Government will not drop the trial. In the bitter words of Robin Ross, chief aide to Attorney General Thornburgh, "This great American hero is graymailing the Government. This is the guy who stood up in his Marine Corps uniform and all his medals, and now he is sticking it to the Government with an advantage ((knowledge of secrets)) he got through service to his country...
...show's other male role, Sam Antics, is a dashing hero and makes the most of the alliterative, inadequate lines he is stuck with. Sam Antics and Tom Collins deliver two of the productions's best performances, and two of the only great voices...
...market it, is usually a sham; public relations is the name of the game. A lieutenant in Tour of Duty gets drunk in a bar and empties the place by wildly firing his gun. A few seconds later, a bomb explodes inside, and he is hailed as a hero. Notes a smarmy major: "You're the first good publicity the command has had since...