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Many critics and other viewers, while readily conceding that the TV series was not a precisely accurate recounting of history (few dramatizations are),nonetheless praised the production for what one of them called its mythic veracity. They had a point. For millions of Americans, Roots was real?if not necessarily literally true (see ESSAY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY 'ROOTS' HIT HOME | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...Start (the last lines: "It's where you finish/ And you've finished on top"). Leonard Bernstein conducted the National Symphony Orchestra in his composition If Ever Man Were Loved by Wife, which he dedicated to Rosalynn. James Dickey recited a new poem, describing Carter as a mythic hero drawing strength from a walk in the Plains countryside on a summer's night. Sample lines: "Lord, let me shake/ With purpose. Wild hope can always spring/ From tended strength. Everything is in that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE INAUGURATION: WALTZING INTO OFFICE | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

This time, both the guests and their setting (a tavern) are seedier. So are the cards, the so-called Marseille tarots first printed in the 18th century. More mythic figures appear among the guests, but the stories also take on sooty overtones of industrialism and hints of the modern totalitarian state. The author seeks his own story in the pack. "Perhaps," he ventures, "the moment has come to admit that only tarot number one honestly depicts what I have succeeded in being: a juggler, or conjurer, who arranges on a stand at a fair a certain number of objects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Card Tricks | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

...AUTUMN OF THE PATRIARCH by Gabriel Garcia Marquéz. The author of the masterly One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970) imagines a mythic despot in a fictitious South American country and creates a Kafkaesque saga with a Latin beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year's Best | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...only one created directly for the movies, having no ready roots in literature or folk lore. The crudities, the enigma of the original Kong's expression, are part of that work's strength. The wowing Technicolor virtuosity of the remake reduces the tale's mythic resonances and turns it into a safe PG entertainment. It may be that though the legend of Kong works on something that is perpetually child like in everyone, it was never meant for children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Greening of Old Kong | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

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