Word: mortality
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...always as enlightened. But there is one big exception, according to Linda Grant De Pauw, president of the Minerva Center, an educational facility dealing with women in the armed services. "The absolute military ban on homosexuals creates an opening for sexual harassment," she says. "Military women live in mortal fear of being called a dyke. When the man says, 'Sleep with me or I'll say you're a lesbian,' it is terrifically effective where women know they may be kicked out if the charge is made...
...Penn's world, reputation counts for more than celebrity, and fame is no laughing matter. Posed against bare backgrounds and pressed by mortal shadows, his stalwart artists and writers are icons of modernism at its most brave, clean and reverent. Their solemnity may be a pose in itself, but it has its metaphorical power. Penn's fashion shots take on greater weight in the company of his portraits; the passage of time seems to hang over them both. They in turn magnify the effect of a third kind of picture that he started taking in 1967, when he began...
...Awakenings, Backdraft. When Bruce Willis flexed his pecs through two Die Hard melodramas and gave voice to the Look Who's Talking hits, he had to be hot; each pair of films grossed close to $200 million. Then he fell off the table with The Bonfire of the Vanities, Mortal Thoughts and Hudson Hawk. Look who's flopping...
Daly is well aware of the pitfalls of his contortionist's swing. "I may have to change when I'm 35," he says, "if I still have a back." But for now, Daly believes that the rewards of being able to fly over hazards placed on fairways where mortal golfers risk falling into them, and then following up with shorter, more accurate irons, offset the wild shots...
...Tyson was exempt from sweeping moral judgment. A killing machine knows no scruples. His brutality was his aura. He was as bad as we wanted him to be. But once he was unthroned by Buster Douglas in a humiliating upset early last year, Tyson was not only revealed as mortal but also held to mortals' rules...