Word: stoicism
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...fled the farm in her teens; her savage rivalry with her mother was exhausting both of them. The elder woman resented the daughter's opportunities; the younger saw in her mother a stoicism she could never match. As a gutsy, pretty newcomer in the city of Salisbury, she fell in with young leftists and joined the Communists. These chapters make a scathing account of party delusions. "We despised anybody who did not believe in the Revolution," she writes, even doubting that she would demur if asked to go out and kill...
...sues his female boss for sex harassment, John Lithgow hams it up with overripe accents -- the protagonist's Hispanic lawyer seems to come from somewhere outside Transylvania. But on the other hand, Brad Pitt delivers Cormac McCarthy's hardscrabble prose in The Crossing with a twangy stoicism that perfectly reflects the novel's tone...
...Stranger, The Plague), plays (Caligula) and philosophical essays (The Myth of Sisyphus) that both defined and helped create a 20th century temperament: We are by ourselves in an absurd universe, compelled to act but bereft of any reasonable grounds for doing so. Camus seemed to embody the laconic stoicism of his works. He was reserved in public; in many of his photographs, he looked the way Camus should look, a slender, dark, intense Bogart type, a tough guy betrayed by sad eyes...
Above all, this genre is about manliness and different ways of achieving its 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...
Lonesome Dove, by contrast, was perhaps the most realistic picture of the Old West TV has ever presented, its often shocking bursts of violence suffused with a lyrical stoicism. Return to Lonesome Dove, however, is less a sequel than a lazy recycling of scraps from older, blander westerns. Captain Woodrow Call (Jon Voight replacing Tommy Lee Jones) makes a second trek from Texas to | Montana, this time to drive a herd of horses, while his unacknowledged son (Rick Schroder) goes to work for a powerful cattle baron. In place of the hardscrabble poetry of the original is a meandering frontier...