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The hype commences, with critics pronouncing Steven Spielberg's World War II epic "a movie of staggering virtuosity" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Reviews dwell on the gory 25 minute opening battle scene, emblematic of Spielberg's new obsession with verisimilitude: "[O]ne of the greatest, most appalling things ever done in movies" (David Denby, New York ). Applause also goes to Spielberg for bucking war movie typecasting with Everyman Tom Hanks and such unmacho hunks as Matt Damon and Edward Burns.
Inevitably, one compares the main entries with those in similar recent works, such as Leslie Dunkling and William Gosling's Everyman's Dictionary of First Names (1983) and Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges' A Dictionary of First Names (1990).
New words for Everywoman and Everyman are proliferating, albeit with a qualitative difference.
[Translated by Lord Dunsany and Michael Oakley, Everyman's Library, 1961]
The one shocker in the book is the revelation of Eisner's heart-and-soul belief that those who criticize Disney simply don't understand it and that "the company's good is unquestionably, inextricably intertwined with the larger social good" (Richard Schickel, the Los Angeles Times ). (For the biography of another "awkward, toothy, curious, and good-spirited Everyman" at Disney, read Goofy's official bio.