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...brutality and bumptiousness of football were dismissed as fit subjects here 90 years ago by Willa Cather, the beautiful writer from Red Cloud, as cherished an alumnus as Vince Ferragamo, the handsome quarterback from Los Angeles. She admired the game as "one of the few survivals of the heroic," and it pleased her that football "arouses only the most simple and normal emotions" and "offers no particular inducement to betting." She wrote: "Of course it is brutal. So is Homer brutal, and Tolstoi; that is, they all alike appeal to the crude savage instincts of men. We have not outgrown...
...comic and dramatic actor in French and Hollywood films; in Paris. Born Israel Moshe Blauschild of Rumanian Jewish parents, Dalio made his movie debut in 1933 and came to prominence in Pepe le Moko (1937). For Director Jean Renoir he anchored two great films, playing Rosen-thai, the reluctantly heroic clown in Grand Illusion, and the Marquis, a sweet cuckold dancing under the war clouds in The Rules of the Game. With his photograph posted by the Nazis on Paris street corners as the "typical Jew," Dalio fled occupied France for Hollywood in 1940, where Renoir, Charles Boyer and other...
Spectre, proved highly effective with their shooting rate of up to 6,000 rounds a minute. They knocked out Cuban mortar and gun positions that threatened the invading troops early in the action. But they also suffered casualties, some in heroic low-level flights to draw ground fire, thereby exposing the enemy position to attacks from other U.S. choppers. The Pentagon said five helicopters had been shot down. One transport helicopter, hit by ground fire as it brought troops into the Point Salines airstrip, struck another chopper in its uncontrolled descent. Both crashed...
...into revealing psychological or moral perceptions. But his probing of Serge's childhood is just pablum from the Freudian stockpot. "We brought you up like a little girl," Lucienne tells Serge, and then berates him for not being gay and thereby escaping the family. It is supposed to be heroic when Serge stands by Nicole, declaring. "It's love, and it's real," but his defiance rings dully. It is not the mores of society he is challenging, but his other sisters, who judge merely that his filial piety should be slightly redirected...
...fighter. The Soviets, he says, have set a new speed record, and he is determined to break it. As the astronauts comfortably watch a Sally Road feather dance from their banquet hall seats. Yeager goes too for too fast and loses control. But in an act more heroic than any earth orbit he survives a crash landing and wails away from the smoldering metal heap smiting...