Word: valiant
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...runways in all the latest but did not succeed in dislodging the king. Gianni Versace, Armani's keenest competitor, took up the historical theme with a vengeance. He weighed in quite literally with some rarefied leather and chain-mail combos that looked like rough-trade rigging that Prince Valiant might have worn to go cruising. Mariuccia Mandelli, who designs for Krizia, sent finlike flounces cascading all over suits and dresses-something, perhaps, for the spouse of Jaws' elasmobranch villain to slip into for the Oscars. There were the usual parades of plushy furs by Fendi and dazzling knitwear...
...impossible to watch such intensely political statements and scenarios unfold without drawing rather forlorn comparison between their unquestionable moral stance and the tangled feelings established unionism evokes today. Program notes from the director insist, a little stridently, that "Cradle is not a period piece." and make a valiant attempt to focus on the play's anti-jingoism as an issue still desperately topical in the 1980s. But it doesn't really work, because the political issue gives the play its power; no spectator could respond emotionally to Larry Foreman (Michael S. Miller) putting his life on the line...
...navigating g the straits of political bureaucracy ""and a bungling high command. Here is the wild-eyed wraith of the engine room (Erwin Leder), who "cracks" during one crisis, then performs heroically in the next. Here are the hide-and-seek battles, the claustrophobic tensions, the respect for a valiant enemy. As with David, the novelty here is getting the inside German view. Das Boot has thrills aplenty; it moves full speed ahead through its 2½-hr. running time. Of the 40,000 U-boat men in World War II, 28,000 were killed, and the film is careful...
...weren't you?" Bitchy, Crisp acknowledges, but true. Even so, he says, "I have been very lucky. I asked for bread and was given a stone. It turned out to be precious." His book is a bit precious too. But it is also disarming and, in its way, valiant. The reconstructed virgin may be on his way to fulfilling a childhood dream: to become "a kinky" Elizabeth Barrett Browning. -ByJ.D.Reed
Indeed, the Engineers ran out of steam after a valiant first-half struggle, and Harvard quickly widened its lead to 20 before the subs from both benches swarmed onto the floor...