Word: mythical
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...Batistuta, dubbed "Batigol" by his fans, is the most successful striker of his generation, having achieved mythic status at Italian club Fiorentina in the 1990s before moving to AS Roma two seasons ago. In the modern game, a deadly forward is one who scores once every three games. Batistuta's average for Argentina is better than two in three. With his shoulder-length blond hair and soulful eyes, he looks a likely lead in Jesus Christ Superstar, but he has the instincts of a cold-blooded killer. Bielsa notes that Batistuta is "more comfortable in the last third...
...familiarity, if we think we have some, is false. There is infinitely more to tell. Women pervade Goya's work. He was fascinated, obsessed with them and recorded all their aspects, actual and mythic, typified and individual. His subjects come from all classes. They appear as demonic witches and country sweethearts, as closely human or icily remote aristocrats, star actresses of theater-crazy Madrid, ordinary bulb-nosed wives, allegorical personifications of history, gap-jawed crones, alluring and cheeky majas, cute and not-so-cute whores, blond angels with diaphanous wings on the walls of the Church of San Antonio...
...plot? It's boy (Anakin Skywalker, played by Hayden Christensen) remeets girl (Natalie Portman's Padme Amidala), and a noble Jedi knight (Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi) meets a naughty one (Count Dooku, incarnated by Christopher Lee). Joseph Campbell might have got a kick out of the mythic reverberations, but for the rest of us the story is a thin clothesline on which to hang some terrific computerized beasties (the iguana hashslinger Dexter Jettster, the tall, graceful llama-lamas of planet Kamino) and fab set pieces (a treadmill struggle in the clone factory). Lucas guides these scenes with ingenious...
Score choice has never been an option on the SAT I test, which is supposed to measure aptitude. Predictably, the knowledge that each SAT I score is destined to find its way into students’ application files has contributed to the test’s mythic status as possibly the most stressful high school experience. On the subject tests, which measure ability in a particular field, score choice allowed students to take the test multiple times, with multiple levels of understanding of the material. Because the tests were not one-shot deals, there was less pressure on students?...
These days, Hamas doesn't need to recruit suicide bombers; there are almost too many volunteers. Men embittered by years of misery and humiliation gather at the feet of a new generation of Hamas preachers like the charismatic Sheik Hassan Yussef. His Friday sermons, full of mythic stories of great Islamic battles but also highly critical of Arafat's corrupt regime and its compromises with Israel, urge them toward violent confrontation with the Jews. As Hamas leaders like Yussef tell their adherents, Palestinians may not have tanks or gunships, but they have one thing Israel doesn't: men willing...