Word: heros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comes as no surprise that since the bombing our already delicate relations with China have been severely strained. Thousands of protestors have mobbed the U.S. embassy in Beijing; the Chinese have come to regard Milosevic as a hero, President Clinton as a tyrant and NATO as an aggressor...
...year-old son Nat and me back in January, at the height of his obsession with the Nintendo 64 game Legend of Zelda. We followed that script most nights. And it typically ended in his death--or rather that of his sword-wielding surrogate, the great man-boy hero Link...
...graphics when you use the light arrows." The game, as it turned out, was a synthesis of Arthurian legend, Tolkien mythology and Marvel comic books. It was devilishly difficult. Besides mastering arcane weapons (no blood, though), he had to memorize different sequences of tones--magic songs that transported the hero. There were puzzles to solve, strategies to plot...
...just hope that for his next Flick, he gives us a hero we can root for. Look for an interview with Election scribe Tom Perrotta in next week's Arts section...
...More so than anything else I read at a young age, Tintin kindled my fascination with writing, foreign affairs and travel. The eponymous hero of Herge's series is a young newspaper journalist who travels about the world solving one scandalous affair after another (and manages to spend surprisingly zero time at the office). Opium smuggling in the Orient, counterfeiting schemes in Scotland and underwater treasuring hunting pose no problem for the resourceful Tintin. With the aid of Captain Haddock and pet dog Snowy, Tintin makes short work of the thugs and brings the ringleaders to justice...