Word: heros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hunting seemed heroic: a test of manliness, a mythic pageant, a recreational surrogate for war. Ernest Hemingway was savagely, sometimes childishly competitive for trophy animals. The '60s brought a shift, and Vietnam a sort of anti-Hemingway revulsion. Michael Cimino's 1978 movie The Deer Hunter ended with the hero lowering his rifle, declining to kill a good-looking buck that, before Vietnam, he would happily have slaughtered...
Then Beam, last game's hero and Harvard's deadliest three-point marksman, knocked down his second consecutive three-pointer one minute later, staking Harvard to a 16-14 lead it would not relinquish...
Sorrento, deemed a "folk hero" and a "legend" by those who worked with him, retired this fall after 31 years...
...rage into an acceptable format: winning a spelling bee, playing golf or tackling football players. "You don't have what they call the social skills," he is told in The Waterboy; that is Sandler's gimmick and, for many, his charm. The plot is a competition for which our hero is utterly unqualified but which he always wins, over some smarmy exemplar of the status quo and in a climax tinged with sentiment and demagoguery. After a Sandler speech in Billy Madison, the principal sagely notes that "everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it." That...
...Duke was a famous Harvard football player," Sedgwick recalls. "I was seven years younger, [and] he was my hero...