Word: warriorism
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Charlie shows signs of taking such lessons too much to heart. During a fierce argument with Becker, she calls his colleagues "bastards" and ridicules him for hypocrisy: "One minute our bleeding heart, the next our red-toothed warrior. Whereas all you really are-when it comes down to it-is a bloodthirsty, land-grabbing little Jew." He steps back into his own character long enough to slap her, twice and very hard. Shuttling between Palestinian enclaves in Lebanon, Charlie realizes that hostile aircraft have become new facts in her life: "It had not occurred to her, in her ignorance, that...
...confusing from the start. When Guy Hamilton, a rough, unschooled foreign correspondent from Australia, arrives in Jakarta to make himself a name, it looks like we're in for a simple adventure romance. Having decided to put on some decent clothes since his appearance last summer in "Road Warrior," Mel Gibson looks and plays perfectly the stereotypical cub reporter--cheeky, brash, but oh so earnest in his desire to really know Javanese ways...
...miracle. Graves' body of critical opinion has puzzled academics, and his popular novels of antiquity (I, Claudius, King Jesus) have infuriated historians and theologians. He continues to differ from nearly all his literary contemporaries in perhaps the most basic way: he is alive. At 87, the old warrior-poet still sits atop his Olympus on Majorca, the nobly weathered head shielded from the sun by a broad black hat. He moved to the Spanish island on Gertrude Stein's recommendation ("It's paradise if you can stand it") and has spent most of the past 50 years in the cliff...
...Road Warrior. An apocalypse for the car culture: the good guys have the gasoline, the bad guys own the autos. The violence is glancing, but stings; the vision is dark and hot-rod fast. Australian Director George Miller's socko comic strip is also a textbook of sophisticated film making...
...lost both legs and a forearm in the war and headed the Veterans Administration under Jimmy Carter, "there is probably something that says, 'Bad war, good soldier.' " Their fellow Americans are only now coming to appreciate that distinction and, as Cleland says, "separate the war from the warrior." Mike Mullings of Bethany, Okla., a medic in Viet Nam, agrees that "things are changing. It might sound corny, but people have become a little more caring. It feels pretty good...