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...discovery," is not the lovely golden-haired heroine of our imaginations, resembling, in fact, a rather ungainly giraffe. She does, however, have an innocence and sensitivity which are beautiful in themselves, and she is radiant in her final speeches and in the ascent to her death, all the more heroic for an occasional, involuntary tremble...
There are many reasons for the absence of the heroic impulse among all these actors, and in fairness it must be said that the fault does not lie entirely in the stars. Everyone knows this is not a particularly heroic historical moment. It is difficult to find many real-life heroes to identify with, and this thins the soil out of which larger-than-life movie figures can be expected to grow. Beyond that, not nearly so many movies are being made nowadays, so there are fewer opportunities for the kind of relentless exposure that built the great star careers...
Most Promising New Actor: Artoo Detoo, the heroic little robot of Star Wars...
Philadelphia is known for its soft pretzels (eaten with mustard), snapper soup (eaten with sherry) and heroic sandwiches (eaten with trepidation, and called hoagies). Last week another item-well-dressed cheesecake-was added to the local menu when Canadian Publisher Pierre Péladeau served up his new Philadelphia Journal, a breezy morning tabloid with an initial circulation of 200,000. The Journal's salient contribution to the state of journalism is a daily Philly filly on page 7, fully clothed but flashing a thigh, a kneecap or some other item of civic pride. The paper devotes nearly half...
...generation, the educated young of the U.S. have been taught to deride or satirize the heroic. It is moving to watch their rapt attention at Terra Nova, for they are famished for models of honor. - T.E.K...