Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might say the same for Christopher Reeve. Superman is a role that offers as many pitfalls as opportunities: surrender to parody and the part becomes as two-dimensional as newsprint; emphasize the stalwart heroism and the audience falls asleep. Reeve brings both a light touch and sufficient muscle to Superman. And when he goes bad, he is a sketch of vice triumphant, swaggering toward the vixen Lorelei for a sulfurous kiss. It is largely to Reeve's credit that this summer's moviegoers will look up at the screen...
...gimmicky, especially with Mailer's consuming interest in sex and scatology (an important episode in the book comes when Menenhetet steals some of the Pharaoh's feces, I swear). But even more annoying than the problems in execution, the concerns of the book, and its vacillation between comic book heroism and pornography is the simple fact that the book seems utterly irrelevant. I don't know if anything worse can be said about a serious book, but Ancient Evenings tells us nothing new or pertinent about Egypt or America or anything else. Nor does it make any statement about...
...evokes the grievances of the guerrillas as fully as their treachery, the gullibility of the villagers as well as their jealousy and spite. Painfully, he recalls the mother whom he revered with the absolute awe and devotion of a child. Yet as he tells the story of her utter heroism, he views her with a journalist's balance and detachment...
...best supporting actors around him. During the filming of close-ups of another actor. Newman sticks around to read his off-camera lines rather than leave them to a script girl. What Goldman doesn't mention is that despite (or because of) all Newman's un-starlike heroism, his peers have denied him the Oscar all six times he's been nominated. But this injustice should come as no surprise; it's typical of a town that thrives on slop-pop writers like Goldman and gossipy exposes like Adventures. It merely reinforces what Goldman quickly noticed his first...
Moreover, isn't it possible that Harvard could care less about any worker? After all if Walesa's heroism is in standing up for workers' rights, how is it that Harvard heavily invested all these years in apartheid nations, making its profits from the misery and genocide of Black Africa...