Word: stoics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moments. It is hard to say if Tarzan would have been a good movie even with a better actress playing Jane, somebody with style and grace. Julie Christie for instance, or (a few years ago) Katherine Hepburn. That it would be a better film is certain. The role of stoic-woman-against-all-odds-in-the-wilderness requuces more than a pretty face, more than Bo Derek...
...Poles manage to get by some how, and life goes on in Poland's bustling cities almost as if there were no crisis. As the party congress convened last week, Poland seemed more gay than stoic, perhaps because more than half of its population is under 30. While they know full well about the tragedies of World War II, the young people of Poland are not pessimistic about life or the future...
...awards are being handed out, the most stoic competitor trophy goes without a doubt to Eric Schuler. Running in the 5000 meters. Schuler seemed to have the race wrapped up as he rounded the final turn with several yards between him and B.U.'s Dave Vona...
...problems of the impending change, there are some Sinai dwellers who view it all with stoic detachment. They are the 32,000 local Bedouin nomads, many of whom have grown relatively rich from the job opportunities provided by the Israelis. Yet at least part of their timeless perspective remains. Says gray-bearded Khnebesh Rabiya, a local coffee vendor: "We don't care about Egypt or Israel. What we care about is whether our camels have enough...
Shannon--played as the stoic strong man in the Sly Stallone mold by Chris Walken--pretends he is in Zangaro to photograph birds. The ruler's men may be brutish, but they're no dummies, and Shannon gets the bejesus kicked out of him before he is deported. Back in New York, multinational enterprise knocks on his door again, this time to ask if he might not enjoy returning to Zangaro and overthrowing the government. And, of course, replacing it with a regime equally bad but tied more closely to the free world's engines of capitalist progress...