Excerpt from The Gates of the Alamo

In this excerpt from The Gates of the Alamo, the Texian forces at the Alamo, under the command of Jim Bowie and William Travis, have suffered the first cannon attacks from the newly arrived Mexican army.

"..."all Americans in the world" would not forget his heroism...."

March 24, 2000 Books Feature

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...former Yugoslavia force them to deal with issues of heroism, prejudice, and death. (Mar. 10)..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control

While the rest of the nation was rallying around the flag, screenwriter and director Sturges was spitting out a series of rapid-fire Hollywood comedies that showed untruth, injustice, inequality, corruption, chicanery, and illicit sex running rampant across this land from sea to shining sea.

"...bought, marriages are sold, and fictitious acts of wartime heroism are pulled like rabbits out of a hat. There..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

The Wild Bunch

"...A Nihilistic Worldview -- Heroism and innocence are in short supply in The Wild..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Screens Feature by Charles Ramirez Berg

Exhibitionism

Mario Rendon Lozano: Art of the People

"...expressing isolation and solidarity, and undercutting an inflated romantic heroism. Lozano sees dignity in the lives of contemporary Mexicans..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Arts Review

TV Eye

"...was a sucker for those gentle stories of friendship, heroism, courage, faith, and hope. Of course, at the time,..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Book Reviews

"...risked their lives to save Jews, not blowing their heroism off as the exception that proves the rule or..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Books Review

Kosovo's Danse Macabre

"...calling them "heroes," so impoverished has our idea of heroism become...."

May 14, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Between the Lines

"...and losses too painful not to mention, and of heroism finer than stories could tell...."

Oct. 16, 1998 Books Review

Dude Descending a Staircase

Four for the Read

"...of reality, the cause and effect, Cartesian, and poli-sci heroism of the age does little to open our collective..."

May 8, 1998 Books Feature

The Message of Dreams

Violet Crown Winner Lisa Sandlin

"...Does it take a kind of heroism to tell stories?" I asked Beaumont native and author..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland

A Potpourri of Pages

On the Bookshelf

"...to rejoice at a villain's death. Lang deeply distrusts heroism -- again and again, his protagonists are destroyed by..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Books Review

I Wanna Be a Paperback Writer

Perusing the Texas Book Festival Panels

"...of it, was also the thing that created the heroism of it." And Desley Deacon concluded emphatically, "You just..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Books Feature

Stone Soul Booksigning

Interview With Filmmaker and Author Oliver Stone

"...the tradition laid out for me, the road to heroism was risking your life. Sacrifice. I was in a..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Screens Feature by Edward Lagrossa

Postmarks

"...slaves and masters, but of heroic producers, and such heroism is what America truly stands for...."

Oct. 3, 1997 Column

Not Just for Geeks

Gaming at Worldcon 97

"...Dungeons & Dragons all these years without learning about heroism." That agonizing pang of recognition!..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Books Feature by Allen Varney

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...smallness of man (finding in human efforts nobility and heroism) and John Ford romanticized the West as part of..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

1% for Soul

Weighing the Costs of the Art in Public Places Program

"...Durán in turn listened closely to neighborhood stories of heroism, high times, and hard times, and created soaring murals..."

March 7, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Curriculum I: 10 Movies to Know America By

"...dirt is the price many Americans have paid for heroism...."

Nov. 8, 1996 Column by Michael Ventura

Whether You Like It or Not...

Eric Mitchell's Redevelopment Dreams

"...dose of Mitchell's vainglorious theatrics. But it was unsurpassed heroism to Turner and a crowd of black supporters, who..."

Sept. 29, 1995 News Feature

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