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...troops and M-19 guerrillas. "The army lost no time in blowing up the Justice Palace," says a Bogotá lawyer bitterly, "but they couldn't get a water pump to Armero to save the life of a little girl." Indeed, 13-year-old Omaira Sanchez had become a national hero for surviving for 60 hours while up to her neck in muddy water. A privately donated pump arrived shortly after the girl's heart finally gave...
...Houston jury, however, was led to believe otherwise by Pennzoil's colorful lawyer, Joseph Jamail. A Lone Star folk hero who wears cowboy boots in court, Jamail may earn more than $2 billion in legal fees if the fine stands. A personal-liability specialist, he once won a $6.8 million settlement against Remington Arms, a gun company...
...find inconsequential because it is not true. In his eleventh novel, Canadian Author Robertson Davies tackles precisely this problem and turns it into a triumph. What's Bred in the Bone not only shows how biography could be written, if mortals possessed supernatural wisdom. It also offers a hero portrayed so vividly that the real world seems at fault for never having produced him in the flesh...
...Public agitation over immigration also fuels the plot of Lamm's 1988, a political novel that envisions a motley conspiracy to place a third-party candidate, a former Texas Governor, in the White House. Co-Author Arnold Grossman is a campaign media packager, and so is the book's hero. The narrative begins with the claim that "given a large enough budget and enough creative genius, Colonel Qaddafi could get himself elected president." Voters may not be as gullible as the authors suggest: despite an $11 million expenditure, John Connally bought just one Republican delegate in 1980. Still...
...scheme of Rocky IV is numbingly familiar. Our hero is discovered at his ease, enjoying the sweet rewards of his pugilistic toil, no clouds on his scar tissue. There then lumbers into sight a giant threat not just to his well-being but to all that he--we--holds dear. Yes, literally a giant. Replacing Mr. T in this thankless role is a humongous Soviet called Drago (Dolph Lundgren). Behind this wild bull of the steppes, a totalitarian state has mobilized all its technological wizardry (including, it is hinted, steroids) in order to claim not merely a world championship...