Word: mythical
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This reality is a stark contrast to the mythic, idealized Harvard imagined by its tourists. Every morning, the urine is gone, and the statue appears pristine, but we students know the truth. Each time a visitor reaches to touch John Harvard’s lucky foot, we cringe perhaps not only from disgust, but from embarrassment as well...
Gibson loves operating in that historical territory where the record is sketchy and subject to mythic reinvention, which leaves him--and anyone else--free to fill in the blanks with whatever dubious ideological instruction he likes. You can also argue, less cosmically, that his works are no more than extensions of a very long line in epic, unconsciously risible filmmaking that imparts earnest metaphorical lessons about metaphysical topics, often enough from people who are painted blue or speaking a language that needs subtitles, or both, as in this film. Gibson is a primitive all right, but so were Cecil...
...almost everyone bet against him: a foreigner with a funny name tackling Japan Inc. He proved them spectacularly wrong, turning Nissan into an auto power with industry-leading profits and such stylish vehicles as the 350Z sports car, Murano SUV and Altima. Ghosn's success made him a mythic figure in Japan. In France they crowned him Le Cost Killer. And in 2005 he added a couple more job titlespresident and CEO of Renault...
Indeed, as we traveled that Saturday through downstate Illinois and then across the Mississippi into the mythic presidential-campaign state of Iowa, Obama seemed the political equivalent of a rainbow--a sudden preternatural event inspiring awe and ecstasy. Bill Gluba, a longtime Democratic activist who sells real estate on both sides of the river in the Quad Cities area, reminisced about driving Bobby Kennedy around Davenport, Iowa, on May 14, 1968. "I was just a teenaged kid," he says. "But I'll never forget the way people reacted to Kennedy. Never seen anything like it since--until this...
...around the race track in his underwear, convinced he's on fire, and then sends him back home, as a faded star now living with his mom, learning how to drive again with his alcoholic father, and delivering pizzas by bicycle. Here, Ricky Bobby is resurrected as the more mythic American figure, relearning the values of family and the sincere joy of racing...