Word: valor
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...tough little bit of song parody, the Rolling Stones once suggested: "Summer's here, and the time is right/ For fighting in the streets." It's also a prime time on screen for assorted brawls, mysteries, plots, tests of valor and full-fledged battles, as the current crop of thrillers amply demonstrates...
...Originality Counts. Creativity has killed a lot of cats, so be smart--don't fight city hall. Swallow a little pride. Live to fight another day. Discretion is the better part of valor...
Both Reinking and Grey perform feats of theatrical valor, but their talents are wasted. Grey is given only one dance, which he executes with goat-footed guile, while Reinking courses across the stage like a thoroughbred in the stretch. The music races toward oblivion rather than anyone's ears. Rouben Ter-Arutunian's majestic scenery features a columned, rotunda-like set with a cascade of steps. This forces Onna White to choreograph dances in which the chorus troops trippingly, and repeatedly, up and down...
There is one thing to be said for golf. It gave the Oldest Member (alias P.G. Wodehouse, 92 and still spinning yarns on the clubhouse terrace) an excuse to look up from his lemonade and variously celebrate valor at the ninth-hole water hazard and the triumph of love over a fifteen handicap. These 31 stories, a Masters tournament of golfing tales, stretch gloriously from The Clicking of Cuthbert (1916) to Sleepy Time (1968) and pass such milestones as The Heart of a Goof and The Awakening of Rollo Podmarsh...
...Arab view, the U.S. has not kept up sufficient pressure on Israel to reach a settlement with Syria on troop pullbacks on the Golan Heights, the embargo could be resumed. Still, in view of Gaddafi's position, the ministers thought it the better part of valor not to announce that decision or indeed anything at all except their plan to reconvene in Vienna at a meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries...