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"The bees and I have an understanding," he announces, stoic in his denims.
In the case of Bob Dole, afflicted reporters repeat the well-grooved narrative of his Wound, Recovery, New Sensitivity, because it makes for a good and easy story--and because it fits with their line that the formerly taciturn/stoic, mean/hatchet-wielding Dole has evolved, even when the record shows that he's been a serial blubberer since the '70s and, despite the tears, is just as mean as ever.
The Japs and the Brits are a stoic bunch, suffering in silence, blaming themselves for any illness, apologizing for any sort of dependence on the health system, probably never reporting many deadly illnesses for fear of cultural shame.
Peter Fonda's comeback--as a stoic beekeeper facing down his convict son's thuggish friends--is called his first worthy performance since Easy Rider (1969).
When Dole misted up at the convention, reporters wrote as if the "Midwest stoic" had finally found his heart, when in fact a sluice of his tears courses its way through his recent career.