Word: heros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Respectable antiabortion groups disavow violence, unlike Pro-Life Virginia, whose founder, the Rev. Donald Spitz, called Slepian's killer a hero carrying out his Christian duty. But they see their goals achieved through terror, such as the receipt, at four clinics last Friday, of letters supposedly containing anthrax, which sent 33 people to the hospital. What good is the right to an abortion if there's no way to get one? There are fewer clinics today (one in all of Buffalo, for example), and they are more widely dispersed. Far fewer doctors do the procedure, and even fewer are being...
...wrong. This is no knock on John Glenn. John Glenn is a hero. He deserves to go anywhere he wants to go. He would have earned his wings if he'd done nothing more than fly those 149 combat missions in World War II and Korea, let alone risk his life as the first American to orbit the earth...
...Americans felt they had heard enough--in fact, more than enough--to craft a full package. Sandy Berger, the President's National Security Adviser, had heard so much repetition that he started carrying around the lyrics to I Got You Babe, the song from the movie Groundhog Day--whose hero must relive the same 24 hours over and over. (Clinton tried to explain the joke to Arafat, but it didn't translate.) It was time to force Netanyahu to focus on the security problems, the President decided. Over dinner, he pushed Netanyahu to boil his security demands down to five...
McKellen has had tiny roles in flop movies (Last Action Hero, I'll Do Anything), and though he originated the role of Salieri onstage in Amadeus, he didn't get the part in Milos Forman's film; maybe Forman thought F. Murray Abraham was more photogenic. Or perhaps he detected an unease in McKellen's film presence. "I belong on a stage," the actor says. "I feel totally at home. But at a studio, surrounded by other experts who all have their contributions to make, I used to feel a terrible pressure as the person in front of the camera...
King is also responsible for the psychosexual themes that run underneath what is, in its way, a sort of "coming of age" tale. Our hero, however, does not go from foolishness to wisdom but from good to evil, and this is perhaps the most problematic aspect of Apt Pupil. The key line in the movie perhaps comes when Dussander, at a dinner party and unflappably suave, says, "Speaking the truth is a privilege of young boys; it is one, however, that men must regrettably relinquish," raising his glass knowingly to the other men at the table. Lying, suggests Apt Pupil...