Word: mythic
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Easy: the Red Sox were never on strike, and the Red Sox can never go on strike. The Red Sox are a mythic creation, a feeling of longing born of 76 years, a sensation of always almost making it. The team is a force that binds New England together, that conjures memories long buried, that at times breeds hope in even the most cynical...
Opening Day is the time when the real world melts in favor of the mythic. And I, for one, am going to go to as many Red Sox games...
...movie aspires to some ambitious symbolism, but falls way short. Harry Thoreau lives next to a mythic pool, while Henry Thoreau lived next to a mythic pond, but this is left just a gimmick. Much of the movie takes place at the Marilyn Motel. The controversy surrounding Monroe's life and death is supposed to echo the theme of extraordinary events. The film's script cripples any possibly interesting manifestation of this potentially interesting idea...
...that the Bio-Labs Cafe was going to put in storage. The House Committee provided a small percentage of the funds and Dining Services paid the rest. "It's amazing how much you can accomplish just by talking to Mike Berry," says Buchwald with a modesty which softens the mythic aura surrounding this so-called "fro-yo czar...
...much we forget. It was Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy--more than her brash and dashing husband, more than the glamorous daughter-in-law she outlived, even more than her martyred sons--who forged the Kennedy character. It was Rose Kennedy, in reality, who played mythmaker to America's most mythic clan...