Word: stoics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reported missing and an embarrassing elegy begins. "Men like Clouseau never die," intones one mourner. "They're unique. They help us preserve our sense of humor." Not, alas, when we are invited to genuflect at the coffin. Better to recall the lively Sellers-Clouseau: facing every indignity with stoic fatuity, bulldogging through the minefield of his own ineptitude, working new variations on that preposterous French accent. What a shame we will never hear him say, "Eh Teh, pheune heume...
Guiding City Ballet's future needs a kind of heroism, the stoic, clear-headed kind. Born in Copenhagen and trained at the Royal Danish Ballet School, Martins began dancing with City Ballet in 1967, after Balanchine spotted him as a good partner for Suzanne Farrell. His training for his new job began in 1977 as a byproduct of learning how to create dance. Balanchine guided him closely, even assigning him music. "I consider myself fortunate to have him there, tough as it was at times," says Martins. "People say to me, 'Do things your...
...cheerful bear of a man with a beard, a bristling brush cut and a voice that booms as if he were fighting a bad connection, Hathaway exudes the durability associated with oak trees, granite boulders and other sturdy natural acts of Maine. But he is also a stoic after the New England manner, accustomed to the coming and, mostly, the going of all things human. Piece by piece, the Bryant Pond he was born into, two houses down from where he lives today, has vanished...
...tough-guy movie hero these days, it doesn't matter whether he can dish it out; he has to be able to take it. He must be a Zen stoic who overdoses on pain in order to prove himself to himself. In Barbarosa, Willie Nelson lies placidly in his own new grave; he cauterizes his own stomach wound with flaming gunpowder; an enemy's bullet creases his cheek-not a word, not a whine, not so much as a flinch. In The Challenge, Scott Glenn dines on live eels and beetles; stands buried up to his neck...
...Queen displayed regal presence under pressure that would have impressed even her great-great-grandmother Victoria, the stoic object of seven assassination attempts over 42 years. As Elizabeth talked with Fagan, she managed to telephone the palace police switchboard twice, in a calm voice, to summon help. No one came immediately because the urgency of her situation was not realized An attendant who might have helped her was out walking the royal Corgis. She was finally saved when a maid entered the bedroom, took a stunned glance at the visitor and blurted, "Bloody hell, ma'am! What...