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...year-old cerebral palsy victim-Elizabeth Bouvia-may not starve herself to death under the auspices of the hospital where she is a patient "In conventional folklore, Elizabeth Bouvia might have been an inspirational figure," News-week wrote at the time True, she has led an incredibly difficult and heroic life. A quadriplegic, she lived on her own, earned a college degree, and got married (she and her husband have since separated). But now that she has decided she no longer wants to go on, experts who debate the issue are once again discovering the morass of ethical implications surrounding...
...hockey player might conceivably raise his price on the basis of one heroic fortnight. Mike Eruzione, the bridge painter and minor leaguer who retrieved his amateur status to captain the 1980 team, has made something of a cottage industry out of these moments. There was a quick Coke commercial for Jim Craig, the goalie everyone wrapped in a flag, but the flavor did not last. American Express has just revived the 1980 team...
...London audiences of the early 18th century, Italian opera meant heroic plots, lavish sets and dazzling vocalism. It also meant a German-born composer with an anglicized name who had successfully transplanted a hothouse species to the neighborhood around Covent Garden...
...broadly speaking, two things created a major American art. The first was the Revolution, which fixed American neoclassicism as the speech of elevated visual discourse and gave American artists heroic themes from their own history and experience. The second was the discovery of great space and, within its vastness, of unique nature. To this we owe the lucid, entranced sea visions of such painters as Lane and Heade. Theirs was the distinctive language of American luminism, with the surface of sea and sky like a membrane of pure contemplation, every pebble and mast distinct, caught in a kind of sacramental...
Above all, Castro singled out the U.S.-led invasion of Grenada. Referring to the 24 Cubans who died in the invasion, Castro declared to loud applause that "the blood shed by the heroic collaborators who fell in Grenada will never be forgotten." Nor, he said, would the Cuban revolution "tremble or vacillate" should the time come to defend itself. Harking back yet again to the Santiago triumph of 1959, Castro invoked the "heroism, patriotism and revolutionary spirit" of that day to achieve the same aim: "Victory...