Word: heros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kong, the hero of Ha Jin's Waiting (Pantheon; 308 pages; $24), is hardly the first man, in or outside of fiction, to wish to end his first marriage and wed the woman he now loves. But rarely, if ever, has such a fellow been bedeviled by the array of obstacles Lin must confront. Not only is he scrupulously moral and thus vulnerable to all the guilty pangs of wayward husbandhood, but Lin's travails occur in a place--Communist China--and during a time--the early 1960s to the early '80s--when literally all occasions conspire against the quest...
...almost inconsiderate after the grueling emotional turmoil of Williams' piece. Director Aidan Parkinson takes a burlesque approach to Chekov's story of a marriage proposal interrupted by disputes over trivial family rivalries. Dorothy Brodesser returns in drag as the scowling father of Natalia, the woman whom Chekov's feeble hero Lomov wants to wed, and Barlow Anderson as Lomov reaches feats of physical hypochondria that defy description. Parkinson's production comes dangerously close to the line between farce and sheer Vaudeville at times. It evokes laughter from the audience, but it is more of the laughter one expects...
Senior goaltender J.R. Prestifilippo will anchor the Harvard defense Friday night. He was the hero for the Crimson last weekend, holding the Bears scoreless on 26 attempts for his second career shutout...
...only a role model for tennis, but a role model for life. Scanning the letters, it was clear how much Monica means to her fans-- "she's an angel, "she deserves everything in life," "she is an example for all of us," "she's an amazing hero." Confronted with those descriptions of her, Monica becomes quiet for a second...
...Arts C-14, "Concept of the Hero in Greek Civililzation...