His FBI handler was another son of South Boston, John J. Connolly, who was about 10 years younger than Bulger and who had grown up idolizing him along with Bulger's brother, William, who became a powerful Massachusetts politician.
"That thing where you log in to the internet for a second and see people idolizing the guy who raped you as a feminist," Stoya wrote.
That thing where you log in to the internet for a second and see people idolizing the guy who raped you as a feminist.
The contemporary mind, however, is also moved by the authentic passion of Mīr, idolizing him for the sublimity of his concept of love and for his personal integrity.
Baseball, already the sacrament of the tabloids, was where he made his first mark, and where he seems to have made his first distinct turn: he had come to New York idolizing the great and virtuous Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson, whom he had been writing about back in Colorado for years, sight unseen.
The light is hazy with halation; you worry that Assayas might be idolizing the guy, but you realize soon enough that Carlos is a chronic self-dramatizer, and that all the outrages to follow are committed less in the cause of revolution, whatever he claims, than in that of vanity.
He rarely had an opportunity to seriously reflect on his Korean heritage, but he began to appreciate the stories that food could tell when he was still a child, staying home with his mom, watching the Food Network and idolizing Emeril Lagasse and Bobby Flay.
Buk-Swienty esteems his subject without idolizing him, noting that Riis sought to improve the living conditions of the poor in part to stave off anarchy and a Communist revolution.
A few unhappy years at prep school (Andover, no less), where he was remembered for idolizing Harry Houdini; a job as a salesman for the Whitman textile company.
It is possible that the film would not have worked if it were simply a bio-pic of Julia Child — that it derives its narrative thrust and commercial potential from the interplay between a young woman idolizing and relying upon Child in the more or less present and the splendid story of Julia Child's past.
Batum is the starting forward for the Portland Trail Blazers, playing overseas in a league he grew up idolizing.
