Word: heros
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Besides, plenty of people do like her--now more than ever, as they used to say in '72. Among the vast right-wing conspiracy she has attained the status of folk hero. I met up with Goldberg the other night at Manhattan's Princeton Club, where a group of New York conservatives meet monthly for drinks and palaver. She swept into the room wearing a black pants outfit and a long, charcoal gray feather boa. With her gold cigarette holder and her swampy voice, she seemed a cross between Angela Lansbury and Jimmy Cagney. She made straight...
...sport is this more visible than it is in baseball. The other team sports, so dependent on the careful knitting of disparate talents for every act, never isolate the hero quite the way baseball does--especially when it places him alone in the batter's box and challenges him to perform the most difficult feat in all of sports. Even off the field, the baseball star has always seemed to have a more sharply defined persona than other athletes do. Decades pass, and still we feel we know them. Babe Ruth, the profane if lovable libertine; Mickey Mantle, the gifted...
...more confident person," she says. "Not just as a player but as a person. Because he was able to manage the stress and overcome it." McGwire's challenge was thrust upon him, not only to deliver with his bat and to withstand the pressure, but to act like a hero for at least one baseball season. If he did it a little stiffly, you have to wonder this: Who would feel natural with 10,000 bulbs flashing as he worked? And would you want that person as a role model for your kids? Stiffness, it turns out, can be incredibly...
...blessing watched last week's raids with a sense of mounting dread. The Administration has so far withheld outright military assistance for a guerrilla campaign, and would-be recipients fear the bombings will create a false impression of progress toward Saddam's ouster. "Saddam can emerge as a hero who faced down U.S. imperialism," said Hamid Bayati, spokesman for the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, an opposition group backed by Iran. "He will attract more sympathy for Iraq among Muslims. Mounting the strikes without a political strategy to overthrow the regime could be counterproductive...
...during the 1930s. "I have no memory of the Depression as an event," he told me. "We had one of the great fortunes. We traveled more, we had bigger homes and more servants. I learned about the Depression by reading at Harvard." Kennedy, who had been a young Navy hero in World War II, then looked at me and said, "War was my experience. I can tell you about that...