Word: manhoods
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Ridley Scott's Gladiator glances back to the old sword-and-toga epics, and it's surely sturdier than the 1959 Ben-Hur (which won an unconscionable 11 Oscars). It has the fights and the fraught manhood while skipping the piety. DreamWorks, the film's distributor, knows how to market a movie to the Academy; it won last year with the smallish American Beauty. And the film boasts a strong, unsentimental performance from Russell Crowe...
...party thrown by Queen Elizabeth II for the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, Princess Anne and Prince Andrew--who in the days and weeks ahead would turn 100, 70, 50 and 40, respectively--Prince William spent his 18th birthday studying for finals at Eton. With his passage into young manhood, Di's son is fair prey for paparazzi...
...idea of a "President's palace" quite naturally captured the expansive mind of transplanted Frenchman Pierre L'Enfant, who had grown to manhood at Versailles, the most magnificent monument to power and wealth--and self-indulgence--in Europe. In the fall of 1791, the new Federal City designed with his regal touch would be named Washington...
...other hand, Bush's success in Philadelphia (he passed the manhood test, and he left the impression, at least, of generosity and inclusion) may take the game up to a higher and better level. It may focus the Democratic convention, and the campaign and debates to follow, more articulately on differences of principle. Gore is not going to win the personality contest...
...room, where I played pinball like an uptight burglar, braced against discovery. I had a Bar Mitzvah and recited the Hebrew words of my service from memory without comprehending them, but my Little League game later that day still sticks in my memory better than my supposed passage into manhood...