Word: mythicize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much a place where these tensions are resolved as a realm of simultaneity. It is the state people dismiss as having "no history," and yet it is strewn with old missions from the Spanish occupancy. It is the state where the place names on highway maps speak of a mythic Catholic past (San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo) and a bland suburban present (Riverside, Pleasant Hill...
Women Who Run with the Wolves offers fables for earthy chicks in search of their mythic past. Real Men Don't Bond is a guide for the guys who'd like to run with the women who run with the wolves. Coming soon, a revealing sequel: Real Men Are Wolves...
...statue of John Harvard, which is one of the Yard's main tourist attractions, has acquired a mythic significance over the years which has made it a frequent target of vandals...
...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...
...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...