Word: mythicize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff of the Advocate, which sponsored the reading, introduced Bly, a former Advocate editor, as one of the "mythic antecedents" of the magazine...
...swarm" him, a relatively benign technique used to subdue a violent suspect. Nor did it show that after all that, King was charging directly at the officer who first whacked him with a baton. But the videotape became one of those vehicles of Herodotus, carrying at its core a mythic truth that fetched back centuries: white authority brutalizing a black...
...There are no secrets revealed herein on the logistics of rearin' up such a brood; rather the film stages a mythic, comic, quirk-riddled ballet all aswirl around young Nathan Jr., one of moviedom's most-sought babies. Seen it already? See it again. A cult classic with its own genre that makes the heralded Fargo look like Baby's Day Out. Very, very dear to the Couch Potato Man's bulbous brown heart...
...Less mythic, less funny, and much less dear to CP is Yours, Mine and Ours (1968), a treacly lightweight in which Henry Fonda and his ten children get all tangled up with Lucille Ball and her eight. It's The Brady Bunch meets The Swarm (also with Fonda), strictly for chuckle-prone domestic types for whom a gaggle of pouting cherubs are an apt substitute for just about anything. Reasons to watch: a young Tim Matheson, a full decade before Animal House, and a few winning moments involving, yes, pouting cherubs. Plus, after the terrific Mister Roberts, it's good...
...with atomic energy and electric-blue eyes that alternately charmed and haunted, had dominated every conversation he'd ever had. Einhorn wasn't on a weight-loss program back then. Cross a bear with a man, take away all grooming implements and you get Ira, who considered himself too mythic to bathe regularly or use his given name. Einhorn means "one horn," so he called himself the Unicorn. When it wasn't fair maidens he was after, it was the company of nags like Rubin, Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg. He ingested enough drugs to kill a whale. He organized...