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In popular culture, literature, and the cinema, soldaderas have been portrayed as self-sacrificing women, usually mestizas (mixed-race women) from the lower classes, but La Adelita is often seen as a güera (light-skinned), “sweetheart of the troops, a woman who is valiant, pretty, and a wonderful helpmate to the soldier” (Salas 121).
Should it turn out that Gore, as the son of a senator, had a kind of safe-conduct pass through the war zone, it would call into doubt just how courageous and self-sacrificing his decision to volunteer was.
The Kennedy assassination thus marked the arrival of the romantic myth of the self-sacrificing agent--the myth that Larry Cockell and Clinton's other agents trade on when they publicize their anguish over having to betray the president's trust.
Both shows feature leggy professional babes with big, fabulous tresses (Amy Brenneman of NYPD Blue as Amy in Judging Amy , Melina Kanakaredes as Syd Hansen in Providence ) who have thrown over high-powered careers (corporate law for Amy, plastic surgery for Syd) in fast-paced cities (New York, Los Angeles) for noble, self-sacrificing careers (family court judge, family doctor) in depressed Northeastern cities (Hartford, Providence), where they both move in with their families.
The catcher has the least glamorous, most difficult, and most self-sacrificing job in the game.