Word: mythicize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the Whitewater attacks and other woes. In a new book about the presidential campaign, The Choice, Bob Woodward reports that Mrs. Clinton came to rely on Jean Houston, 55, a co-director of the Foundation for Mind Research, who is described by Woodward as "a believer in spirits, mythic and historic connections to the past and other worlds." In one hour-long session in April 1995, Houston led the First Lady through an imaginary conversation with her idol Eleanor Roosevelt. As Hillary and some of her aides gathered around a table in the White House solarium, Houston encouraged Hillary...
...shaky start by accusing the Democrats of "hard-line views" and "extremism." Certainly nothing in the Democratic platform is as hard-line and extreme as the Republican call for executing abortion patients. But Dole wishes to make much of an episode at the 1992 Democratic Convention that has achieved mythic status in the abortion debate...
...reassuring applause of the "red and passionate" in the remote Far East. There he wins heady applause from his natural constituency of pensioners and those left out of the new, rambunctious Russian society, who share his visions of impending apocalypse and lap up communism's promise to restore a mythic past of civil order and financial security...
Creators and writers David Greenwalt and John McNamara have done their best to imbue the show with a mythic ethos. The drama takes place in a gray, unnamed city (it's shot in Vancouver). Profit, a junior vice president, blackmails, murders and manipulates to remove obstacles and enemies, but his ultimate goal is unclear. While his urge to control is maniacal, he appears to want powers even grander than a mere title like CEO could bestow. The operations of Gracen & Gracen, "a family company," are shrouded in mystery. They simply "acquire"--businesses, information and, of course, souls...
...Manakis brothers, early figures in Balkan cinema. As A. travels from country to country, including the fractured parts of the former Yugoslavia, he tries to track down where these lost reels ended up in the half-century or more since their last showing. Locales charged with history replace Odysseus' mythic destinations; the people A. encounters each adopts one or more of the characteristics from Homeric characters such as Nauticaa and Persephone...