Word: warriorism
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...September, Clinton named a new Chairman who commands many of Powell's positive qualities but little of his glamour. The President's choice was Army General John Shalikashvili, 57, currently the Supreme Allied Commander at NATO. An officer of the sort the Army calls a "warrior," Shalikashvili muddied his boots as a buck private, commanded a division and a corps, and boasts the sort of American Dream career that fascinates Presidents...
...essays are: "Self-Reliance" by Emerson. "The Ethics of Identity" by Gates, a transcript of Rudenstine's 1992 Commencement speech and Chiu's essay. "Masquerade Attired in the Robes of the Woman Warrior," from the winter 1993 issue of Tian, a Chinese-American student magazine...
...Eastwood) is your basic borderline burn-out with questionable social skills. He's a beast from the past, Clintosaurus rex, who believes that the things he knows about people will compensate for his diminished physical resources. His opponent, Mitch Leary (John Malkovich), is your basic twisted genius, a rogue warrior with dead eyes and a killer grudge...
...pride in being a writer, and I demanded a certain kind of treatment. When I haven't been treated that way, I've either fought back very hard or I've walked." Says producer Don Simpson, who worked with him on Flashdance: "He's a literate mountain man in warrior mufti. He intimidates the dumb and the weak...
...sweet spunkiness of Lauren Holly as the all-American coed Bruce marries in college. Part of it derives from the go-ahead conviction of Rob Cohen's direction. He foreshadows his hero's early death by having his dreams haunted by fate (giddily yet scarily represented as a warrior figure out of China's ancient past) and proposes that Lee ran so hard, so fast in an attempt to outdistance this grim stalker. It's an incautious conceit, and some of its effectiveness may derive from the recent, equally sudden, equally premature death of Lee's son Brandon...