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...basic requisites -- honor, stoicism and freedom of movement. Geronimo: An American Legend takes a tragic view of those values. Everyone who tries to live by them ends up dead, imprisoned or disgraced. In that sense, it is very much a '90s movie, a conscious metaphorical backlash against newer, softer definitions of masculinity. Here good soldiers and Apaches are equally the victims of compromising, "civilizing" forces...
Erik Menendez:...((A)) softer, warmer human being ((than Lyle)), still capable of feeling pity and love for his mother, as well as being able to share a few lighthearted moments with his father, who makes his life generally miserable...
They prefer softer names, like Islamists or fundamentalists, but these were trained killers. They loaded their bomb on a motorcycle and slipped it between two parked cars on a narrow, tree-shaded street outside the American University campus in downtown Cairo. As Interior Minister Hassan al-Alfi's black Peugeot rolled past, the terrorists triggered the bomb, blasting ball bearings at the Minister's motorcade and passersby on the crowded sidewalk...
...with affiliates, had nothing but kind words for network executives and recorded dozens of on-air promos, which have run ad infinitum since mid-July -- a campaign, says Letterman, that "is now officially embarrassing even me." Some of the spots, in their snide way, seem intended to reveal a softer side of the acerbic late-night host. In one, Letterman talks about his two sisters. The older one, he says, taught him, "When you go to the bathroom, close the door"; and the younger one was "one of the smartest people that I've ever been around...
Every so often, on the streets of big cities, you'll see a sidewalk salesman selling records. Ancient 33s from the '60s and '70s, all laid out in a row. Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. Marvin Gaye. Earth, Wind and Fire. Sounds from a softer, more soulful era, now on display as curiosities. In an era of DATs and New Jacks, such scenes have a poignant, out-of-touch, Willy Loman quality to them. You amble by and perhaps turn up the volume on your Sony Discman...