Word: mythically
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...hear it for yourself: Haunted Heart, a new album with his Quartet West, shows Haden, now 55, at his lyrical peak. It is a kind of musical-dream autobiography, part funky and part rhapsodic, that evokes the style of his early Los Angeles days as well as the mythic mood of vintage L.A., the film- noir city. Chinatown. Chandlertown...
Fischer the person is a mere study in pathology, a sad but unremarkable story. The remarkable story, the mythic story, is Fischer the player. His drama is the drama of the Return, of the god who risks immortality to reassume human form...
...result, the novelist's only immortal achievement, Hawkeye, who was born Natty Bumppo in a colonial settlement but was raised by a Mohican family, has at last a context worthy of his importance as a mythic figure. This character, blending the Old World tradition of gallantry with the New World's belief in the moral supremacy of those who live in close harmony with nature, is our Ur- frontiersman, the archetype on whom everyone from William S. Hart to Clint Eastwood has fashioned his variations...
...shining light? Here was the mysterious man who billed himself as the "Fourth Sword" of communism -- the successor to Marx, Lenin and Mao. Under the guerrilla alias "Presidente Gonzalo," Guzman fashioned himself into the demigod of a cultlike political movement. As far as his supporters were concerned, Guzman's mythic aura of brilliance, charisma and invincibility shielded him from comparisons with other mortals. Latin Americans may regard Che Guevara as the model guerrilla, but Guzman dismissed him as an exhibitionist; besides, Che lacked Guzman's tolerance for slaughtering innocent women and children...
...exhibits amazing range: tempestuously angry, hurt and betrayed, laughing and cavorting, she lays claim to the stage, the spotlight, the audience. Even when the stage is crowded with shadow puppets, or wounded deer, or an assortment of Rockefellers and Fords, it is Schneider who is magnetic and maintains a mythic aura...