Word: mythicize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love (yeah, yeah, yeah) became the tortured souls of Let It Be. The other half of the Beatles' famous writing team, John Lennon, is dead, struck down by the gun of a crazed fan in 1980; as a result, Lennon's contributions to the Beatles have taken on mythic proportions. But it's McCartney who remains the icon of the '60s generation...
While tobacco was the cash crop of choice in many parts of the New World, 20th century smokers singled out Cuba as the prestige producer of quality cigars. When the U.S. placed an embargo on Castro's communist economy in 1962, the forbidden Cuban premiums took on mythical qualities. For the truly devout, the mythic Cuban cigar has a heavy and rich aromatic taste that generally milder and sweeter cigars from the Dominican Republic, Honduras and Jamaica cannot match...
...staged pedantic pageant from stage luminaries -- writer John Guare, actors Stockard Channing and James Naughton and director Sir Peter Hall, the founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Like all Guare's plays, Four Baboons Adoring the Sun deals with ordinary people's inability to accept ordinariness, their yearning for mythic and epic significance. But it thwarts itself by hanging its plot on a somber and respectful treatment of the abrupt sexual infatuation and love-suicide pact of a pair of 13-year-olds. Shakespeare could bring it off in Verona. In Guare's rural Sicily, it seems mere wind...
Bright spotlights are trained on the audience seated around the stage. On center stage, the daughter (Cara Polites) of the mythic Aryan god Indra sits on a cloud suspended from the ceiling. These foreshadow the plethora of contrasting, inconsistent and perplexing images that are thrown at us in rapid succession...
Dressed in black for the duration of the play and with her hair pulled back, Forbes creates a strong mythic persona on stage. Believable and likable, Forbes has captured something of the eccentricity and grand stature of O'Keefe...