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Trained to regard death as the enemy they must defeat at all costs, doctors regularly resort to heroic measures to keep their patients alive. Often they perform radical surgery or use complex machines to maintain a flicker of life in people so old or ravaged as to be beyond caring. But does death always represent defeat? No, says Dr. William Poe, a professor of community medicine at Duke University. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Poe not only takes issue with the "winning psychology" of most medical specialties but suggests the creation of a new discipline, the practitioners...
Arabesques. Nowhere in Matisse's work is this heroic quality more striking than in a set of four bas-reliefs of a woman's back, which he worked on intermittently from 1909 to 1930. They give an extraordinary vision of his working methods in all their tenacity. The back, in its successive versions, turns from a deeply in dented landscape of bulges and arabesques, with gullies of shoulder blade and buttocks radiating from the central valley of the spine, into an image with the vast immobility of a mountain - abstracted to a point where its human quality...
...young Trotsky, however, who cuts the heroic figure that may appeal most to contemporary audiences. This is the Trotsky to emerge from the pages of his own early work 1905 -brash, scornful, ambitious but as yet uncorrupted by the necessities of maintaining power. The book was first published in 1909 as Russia in the Revolution, then revised and widely translated under its present title...
...personal crotchets aside, Arnheiter's more truly American tragedy lay elsewhere. He foolishly believed that heroic stance and flashy press releases could turn a sauerkraut war into liberty cabbage...
...large screen, is not fundamentally so unbearable. Scott plays a magnificant wreck of a man, overbearing yet sympathetic, cold because of despair, not heartlessness. Seen first obliquely from behind, he looks like a Grecian noble deep in thought until the camera tracks around to reveal his less-than-heroic profile and the clutter following a solitary drinking bout in a hotel room, a television glowing blankly in the corner...