Word: mythicize
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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...
...esteemed as a painter was to be compared with lost and mythic artists: Parrhasios, Zeuxis and Apelles. Mantegna's taste for emblems and learned allegory -- the mark of superior imagination among Italian humanists -- pervades the work he did at Isabella d'Este's prompting, such as the fantastically elaborate scene of Pallas Expelling the Vices from the Garden of Virtue...
Over the years the two peoples accomplished a cultural convergence after all: they met on the hard, bright surfaces of consumerism. But in each other's minds they remained mutually uncomprehending presences, like mythic cartoons, action figures: G.I. Joes, Mutant Ninja cultures. They tended to caricature each other, always getting things just a little off. That was all right as long as admiration and deference remained the organizing principles, as long as nervous laughter and bowing smoothed...
...land among three families intertwined by treachery and revenge. Warner Shook's staging vividly mixes ritual and realism. While Schenkkan is far better at incident than character, Charles Hallahan and Tuck Milligan enact just the sort of rogues whom descendants go on talking about. The plays strive for mythic power -- and attain it. W.A.H...