Word: mythical
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...course.” Close up on Darling: when we meet her again in the narrative proper, she’s a 29-year-old reporter for the Washington Post by day, femme fatale by night. “Every affair was a movie, an adventure bathed in mythic romance; every seduction conjured up a brand-new way to be,” she recounts. Darling provides a laundry list of the sundry men she’s tumbled into bed with during the temporal black hole since that bedtime chat freshman year: “a progressive-rock disk...
...this be good news for the mythic, native (and rather dim) kings of the American plains? And now that we have revived bison as a species, can we figure a way not to screw it up again--to manage and slaughter them sanely and humanely...
...less process. Through exercises such as the exploration of students’ pasts and their own “falls from grace,” Rader says he wished to cultivate an understanding of the role of the screenwriter as a conduit. “There is a mythic underpinning to screenwriting, and they have access these myths,” Rader says of students. “The best thing they could do would be to get in touch with it.” The afternoon portion of the workshop consisted of an analysis of two scripts...
...freshman year because “I wanted to get the best education I could get.” As a result, Crimson football fans got to ride the Dawson train for four years of almost constant ascent. Following a player as he moves from good to great to mythic (and sometimes back into oblivion) is as integral a part of the experience of being a fan as any. What’s more, Crimson football fans got to take classes (the meaningful type, with homework and finals) with their weekend hero. They got to legitimately live the life...
...violence and terror. Eisner's world seemed more real than the world of other comic book men because it looked that much more like a movie. ... The further films dug into the black fantasies of a depression generation the more they were labeled realism. Eisner retooled this mythic realism to his own uses: black fantasies on paper. Just as with the movies, it was labeled realism...