There are many moments when the characters hurl themselves around, as if making heroic claims on life.
AOL, after all, has 34m subscribers whose eyes tend to fall on whatever content is parked on the service provider's home page.What was foolish, however, was to make such heroic claims for it.
That was all to be expected in the shitty 1950s, but when Ben-Hur director William Wyler accepted Griffith's Oscar, he acted like Griffith was heroic, claiming that his only regret was "that the people of the United Arab Republic will not be permitted to see his performance".
And there is Allison, who, like me, feels put off by the word "survivor"; somehow the term sounds too heroic to claim for ourselves.
Cesaro could repeat his Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal heroics and claim victory in this 20-man brawl; Big E is the big man with the size advantage who could regain the title he held until he lost against Bad News Barrett at Extreme Rules.
If he had lived, he might well have become the heroic figure Talbot claims he was.
Gaiman and Avary again part company with the original in the scenes in which Beowulf recounts his heroic exploits, falsely claiming to have killed Grendel's mother when in fact he was seduced by her.
Schulz argues that both blacks and whites have laid claim to heroic tales of the Railroad as a way to avoid the shame of either enslavement or complicity.
Today's paper does pay tribute to two improbable characters with proper claims to heroic status.
Typical, too, is his insouciance towards the plague in Cairo, which claims his heroic doctor while the narrator survives unmoved.
