Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tennis court or the open road, there was a physical liberation of sorts. A few years later, when the movies were born, requiring motion, the images were available for all to see: the energy of the human figure, the equality of male and female movie stars, the athletic heroism of actresses like Pearl White and Annette Kellermann. From the new ideal of bodies in motion came an original 20th century figure: the energized woman, ready to express her potential in physical activity...
...Vice President recalls in chilling clarity the bare arm of Roy Benavidez, belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor last year for heroism in Viet Nam. In Texas last week the former sergeant told him the scar came from a Vietnamese bayonet thrust...
...screen from his favorite American novelist, and died in 1973) was then very much a cantankerous outsider in the world of official French cinema. To scrape up the financing for Bob, Melville had to be a kind of existential hero himself. It says something about the lack of heroism among U.S. distributors that this gloriously wry and romantic film has taken 27 years to arrive here, especially since Melville did finally achieve international repute as the "father" of the new wave (Godard, Truffaut.et...
Games provoke intense demonstrations of devotion and sympathy, particularly after missed grounders and the 26-3 losses. Victory means ice cream cones on the rich kid's dad and a long afternoon of exaggerating the heroism of one or another 4-ft. Mickey Mantle...
...number of factors helped keep casualties low. The fires occurred at an hour when people were waking up and when daylight offered visibility. Also, the blaze burned from the roofs downward, affording precious extra seconds for people to escape. Perhaps most important was the selfless heroism of residents who pounded on the doors of sleeping neighbors before fleeing. One additional stroke of luck: the winds subsided at midmorning, giving fire fighters a chance to contain the advancing flames...