Word: manful
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...danced like a dynamo in Risky Business, swaggered through the sky in Top Gun and held his own against Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. Cruise is Hollywood's biggest attraction, and he is about to be acclaimed one of its best actors. In Born on the Fourth of July, he displays rage and range as Viet Nam veteran Ron Kovic. For the engaging, intense young star, life has never been sweeter...
Though distant and grainy, this photograph of a Chinese man standing down a tyrannical regime is the most extraordinary image of the year. It is flesh against steel, mortality against the onrush of terror, the very stuff of courage. TIME presents 20 pages of other amazing pictures from a most astounding year...
...Here we are! Hooray!" Those were modest words for a momentous achievement. They came in a radio message from a six-man team of adventurers and scientists that reached the South Pole last week after a 3,213-km (1,992-mile) trek across Antarctica by dogsled. The expedition was the first to reach the pole by dogsled since Roald Amundsen beat Robert Scott there 78 years ago. But impressive as the feat is, it marks only the midpoint of an even more ambitious journey: a 6,450-km (4,000-mile) campaign that would be the first dogsled trip...
Still, it is the classic clash of man against nature that has inspired the most interest. The journey began smoothly on July 27, when the six explorers, 36 dogs and three sleds, each loaded with nearly 450 kg (1,000 lbs.) of food and gear, left the base of the Seal Nunataks mountains and started gliding across the Antarctic Peninsula. But Antarctica's ferocity proved to be stunning. Although it is now summer there, windblown snow has produced near- zero visibility, and frozen drifts have periodically caused the heavily < laden sleds to tip over...
Steger's expedition has been better supplied than Scott's was. Fuel and food have been stashed at prearranged sites along the expedition's route. Each man wears 4.5 kg (10 lbs.) of insulated clothing and consumes daily some 1,030 g (36 oz.) of a high-energy diet (5,000 calories are needed just to maintain weight...