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...posture of the three figures is slack, the battle dress disheveled. The faces are young and tired. The eyes are wary. There is nothing heroic about the bronze men, but together they suggest the wordless fellowship that is forged only in combat. And there can be no mistaking where they fought: Viet...
WHEN SUPERMAN is out of the Galaxy, Indiana Jones in the classroom, and Ghost busters working on their next movie, who va gonna call for some superior supernaturally super heroic cinematic relief? Unfortunately, not Supergirl...
...Professor of Surgery Gilbert H. Mudge, another heart transplant specialist, looked more favorably upon the operation. He emphasized that cyclosporin had yet to be tested in xenographs and there was a possibility of such transplants being successful. "I think it was a heroic attempt to save a life which would have inevitably died, and, although the operation was not a breakthrough, it did use a new technique [cyclo-porin] and therefore was reasonable...
Spaulder did a heroic job in net for the Bruins, making 35 saves on the evening...
...side sat an aging Ronald Reagan, still tall in the saddle, holding forth a future rooted in a mythic past of heroic patriots and open opportunity. He rode into the election with several large achievements: a real grip on inflation, an undeniable economic recovery and a substantial defense buildup. But he bore the burden of a monstrous deficit for whose solution he offered only the Band-Aid of a balanced-budget amendment. He may frequently have been wrong on his facts, but he spoke to the wordless groping of millions of Americans seeking comfort in the future. Reagan wanted...