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Even in his playing years Cobb assumed a mythic stature. The garrulous Casey Stengel summed up his contemporary in a lone sentence: "It was like he was superhuman." Others would say subhuman. On his most courteous afternoons, Cobb slid in, spikes high and sharpened to maim. He wrangled with teammates, two wives, five children and innumerable ticket holders. When a New York fan taunted him, Cobb climbed into the stands and stomped the offender. It was later pointed out that the stompee had been missing all of one hand and three fingers of the other. Cobb replied tenderly...
DEADWOOD (HBO, SUNDAYS, 9 P.M. E.T.) Think of this revisionist western as the Desperate Housewives of the 19th century. Granted, its characters swear more and bathe far less often. But both series take two mythic American settings--the frontier and the suburbs--and expose their ugly secrets. In the second season, the arrival of corporate interests in a gold-rush town gives viewers a fresh starting point (a DVD of Season 1 is also out). It's an engrossing story of how the West was won--or bought...
Moxon—or “Mox,” as he is commonly called—should know. He stood right at the fervor’s epicenter as one of mythic coach Bud Kilmer’s West Canaan High Coyotes. A second-stringer for the first three years of high school, Moxon took over as signal-caller just two games into his final campaign after a freak injury sidelined two-time All-Texas quarterback Lance Harbor...
...competed with early Christianity for followers, Mary's virginity has been challenged from the opposite direction--not as an impossible novelty but as a theme borrowed from the literature of the non-Jewish world. Stephen Patterson of Eden Theological Seminary lists divinely irregular conceptions in stories about not only mythic heroes such as Perseus and Romulus and Remus but also flesh-and-blood figures like Plato, Alexander and Augustus, whose hagiographers reported he was fathered by the god Apollo while his mother slept. "Virgin births were a rather Gentile thing," says the Very Rev. John Drury, chaplain of All Souls...
...saving grace of this movie is its cinematography, which is nearly impeccable. The characteristic use of strong color and natural imagery that distinguished Yimou in this summer’s Hero returns in full force with Flying Daggers, bestowing the film with a mythic ethos that mostly excuses its often pedantic moralizing...