Word: heroic
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...after Author Norman Mailer and others had helped to get him paroled. The "devil's advocate" does not always win; in fact, he often loses. As he explains in his book, The Best Defense, to be published this month by Random House, "The Perry Mason image of the heroic defender of innocent victims of frame-ups or mistaken identification is television fiction...
...media presidency has been authenticated. The Association of White House Press Secretaries has been formed in high humor. Certificates of membership have been printed and issued with the above mock-heroic proclamation. Enter the age of A.W.H.P.S...
...create a milieu as dense and tangy as Tolkien's Middle Earth or Céline's demimonde. This is Australia as the Down Underworld, where character is revealed in the gradations between good and awful. Drawn in vivid cartoon strokes, this menagerie can be funny or heroic or scary...
FREE SPEECH In the lexicon of American political jargon, perhaps no two words are as revered. Certainly more are as immune from harm, those who succeed in choking their unpopular stands in the mantle of free speech invevitably appear heroic dissidents, defined by their willingness to challenge the accepted and tempt the wrath of contemptuous majorities...
...Lampoon nine's cackles of glee quickly gave way to a dull gloom as a long string of goose eggs went up on the big scoreboard. The heroic Crimeds chortled as the game turned into a joke, far better than any that have appeared in the Lampoon in recent memory...