Word: mythical
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...mythic epic narrative which has as its center a female consciousness," says James Schamus, one of the film's writers and producers. "In all the great epics, from the Iliad on, the protagonists have been masculine, their destinies a masculine destiny. Now a real shift is taking place, in which some collective identities - those created for the whole culture regardless of gender - are female...
...DIED. EDDIE PARKER, 69, smooth-talking pool player whose mythic hustles and jaw-dropping trick shots inspired the iconic role played by Paul Newman in the 1961 film The Hustler; in Brownsville, Texas. "Fast Eddie," as he was widely known, lived and breathed cinematic cool: even in his later years he stalked the tables in a tuxedo, with slicked-back silver hair and a cigarette dangling from his lips. The master of the green felt spent his last day cue-in-hand, suffering a fatal heart attack while at the U.S. Classic Billiards Eight-Ball Showdown...
...hope this description is untrue. Regardless, Greenspan needs to be very careful not to squander his near-mythic stature in the partisan jungle of Washington...
...TANTALUS British theater titans Peter Hall and John Barton use the mythic Trojan War as the centerpiece of their adventurously scaled, sharply written satire of modern politics. This 10-hour marathon, which premiered in Denver, bristles with enough backstabbing drama to keep the slack moments...
...better off with him in it has none of the social message or the moral urgency of Scrooge's ghost-bed conversion. The angel-wing stuff is silly. James Stewart, Donna Reed, Thomas Mitchell and company are all terrific in their parts, but that would not explain the near mythic stature of the thing, or why, Christmas after Christmas, one reluctantly finds oneself tearing up without knowing what the weeping is about...