Word: mythically
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Even while it was going on, the Long March lay on the edge of myth. No one has done much to reduce its mythic content. In her own book called The Long March, Simone de Beauvoir made it an elaborate Gallic metaphor for revolution, while André Malraux (who got Mao to tell him about it in 1965) used it, in his non-biography An-timemoires, mostly as an excuse for some very elegant prose. Dick Wilson, an editor of the Singapore Straits Times, has modestly tried to assemble a straightforward account based on Chinese sources, scrupulously avoiding conjecture...
...generous interpretation, and much more than the hot-assed coed she's been taken for. There are no simple heroes in the film: all are caught in cultural conflicts and personal traumas which Peckinpah doesn't sort out sufficiently. Peckinpah's belief in territorial imperatives works better on a mythic scale than on that of chamber drama. Still, he's the most talented director on this list. If he's just keeping his hand on a camera, playing for the budget to make another Wild Bunch, that is almost all a gifted man can do to stay solvent in Hollywood...
...live and did make claims to superhuman power, including the ability to restore the lost works of Plato and Aristotle and to repeat the miracles of Christ. Yet it was not until poets like Christopher Marlowe and Goethe took up the legend that Faust became famous-and mythic. The Faust story appealed to Marlowe and to Goethe because the times in which they lived, eras in which faith and reason were in basic conflict, called for such a symbolic struggle...
...real stars of Dirty Harry are the special effects and make-up men. Without their genius, Siegel would have been unable to send off his audience furtively checking the roof-tops. The film's proportions are so mythic, one expects to shake off the horror. Not so, For three nights running one particularly gruesome close-up has starred in this reviewer's nightmares. Dirty Harry is compelling, though not exactly pleasant, entertainment that rides high on the new wave of violence films. Hopefully Siegel and his film-making colleagues will ebb back to their other obsession. Sex is so much...
Before the chant died, however, Newton and the Black Panthers had become an almost mythic element in the conflict that separates black American from white, the dissenters from the accepting. For a time, depending upon the point of view, Newton was either a radical martyr or a symbol of the winds of destruction. In the end, he was both and he was neither; symbolism overtook reality. In the passions on both sides, there were but few who remembered the death of one man, or the four years of anguish and uncertainty suffered by another man charged with that death...