Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That's all right, though. It is persistence, rather than big talent or bold-stroke heroism, that Honkytonk Man wants to celebrate. If there is a certain amiable reserve about the way the movie states the knothead's case in its early passages, that only makes its conclusion the more gripping. For by the time Red and Whit make Nashville, Red is too sick to appear live on the Opry. His last chance to leave a legacy is to cut an album of his songs, and he almost literally sings his lungs out doing it. If there...
Guiding City Ballet's future needs a kind of heroism, the stoic, clear-headed kind. Born in Copenhagen and trained at the Royal Danish Ballet School, Martins began dancing with City Ballet in 1967, after Balanchine spotted him as a good partner for Suzanne Farrell. His training for his new job began in 1977 as a byproduct of learning how to create dance. Balanchine guided him closely, even assigning him music. "I consider myself fortunate to have him there, tough as it was at times," says Martins. "People say to me, 'Do things your...
...plays a boozy Irish-Catholic lawyer, who is on-screen for nearly all of the film's 125 min., accurately enough to be utterly convincing, with enough restraint so that the audience does not get a hangover, and sympathetically enough so that he reaches out, shakily, and touches heroism. Frank Galvin is a formerly bright and formerly young Boston attorney who was railroaded out of his law firm by a crooked senior partner. He took to what in Boston is called the drink and fell apart. Galvin has had five cases in three years and has lost four...
...fast-rising cadre of officials who came to be known in the West as the "Ukrainian Mafia." Later in the war he served as a political officer in charge of propaganda and morale with various Red Army forces. Official Soviet biographies credit him with numerous feats of wartime heroism, even though he apparently played a largely noncombatant role...
...culture defined by extreme hardship keeps its values simple and its instincts honed. "The hunter in the North, for whom fear and courage are interallied," writes Malaurie, "would smile if one talked to him about heroism." Indeed, he notes, there is no word for heroism in Inuit: "One lives, one struggles, one dies. If there is nothing to eat, you lie down and wait. Emotional involvements are brief. Trouble always lies in the offing...