Word: mythical
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...specific charges are unfair has not made the general issue less sticky. "He did hold the first hearings on Love Canal. He did do more than any other Congressman to bring us the Internet," complains a Gore senior adviser. "People have taken some misstatements and turned them into something mythic...
...example, found a clever way to bring its redesigned logo to students' attention this year. The company bought rights to paint the logo on the side of a Russian rocket that was delivering parts to the International Space Station. CEO Mike Rawlings said they were looking for a "mythic symbol" to represent the chain's recent growth. Pizza Hut is well-known in education circles for its reading incentive program, Book It!, which rewards students with pizza for meeting their reading goals. The theme for the coming year's Book It! reading list, promoted in the teacher packets provided...
...novel's protagonists. They create a comic-book crusader known as the Escapist, an unabashed projection of Kavalier's revenge fantasies. A young artist with Harry Houdini's ability to pick locks while holding his breath, Kavalier has escaped Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia by hiding in a coffin containing the mythic Golem of Prague, and yearns to make enough money to help his family flee Adolph Hitler, or Attila Haxoff as Kavalier's overly cautious boss at Empire Comics insists on calling the dictator...
...Clinton is still a genius at conjuring up giant watermelons, luscious and mythic and savory. He gave a terrific speech at the convention. He evoked the Clinton years as one enormous watermelon patch - and in truth, the eating has been pretty good. Clinton proved, effortlessly, that he is still the most seductive guy in the Democratic party, almost too bright a star, considering that he is being written out of the script and the understudy is supposed to take over...
...noon, they saw Sister Ping wandering around the airport. At first she denied she was Ping, but after she was fingerprinted she admitted her identity. She was carrying her three passports when she was arrested. An Immigration and Naturalization Service spokesman boasted that the "arrest showed even the most mythic are not immune." An extradition hearing was originally scheduled for June, but Ping was hospitalized for depression, and the hearing is rescheduled for next month. She is expected to be extradited in August to face six federal charges of kidnapping, conspiracy and illegally transferring hundreds of thousands of dollars...