Word: mythicize
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...fellow Southerner and I went to Anderson Bridge not long ago in search of the plaque commemorating Compson's mythic jump. Years ago a group of Faulkner fans are said to have placed a bronze plaque on the side of the bridge that saw Compson's tumble. It is also said that not long ago, a group of equally ardent fans stole the plaque. We did not know that as we approached the bridge, eager to pay homage to the desperation Compson felt; I understood a bit of his confusion...
...lights go up, the audience is transported to a mythic New York City underworld in which all of the guys--and a curious policeman--are desperately trying to find out where Nathan Detroit (Nick Davis) is going to hold his famous floating craps game next. Meanwhile, over at the Hot Box dance club, Nathan's fiance of 14 years, Miss Adelaide (Lisa Tornell) is putting on another show with the dolls...
...feelings more fully in Page, Arizona, August 1983, his admiring picture of a woman presiding on the high ground overlooking the mobile-home encampment where she lives. The metal cartons behind her may not look like much, but her own satisfaction is not to be denied. She has a mythic weight, as well as a bit of the literal kind, and her sly smile makes a strong case in favor of whatever it is that accounts for her contentment. When people spread into the landscape, who is to draw the limits? Sternfeld's picture may not answer the question...
...Director Lloyd Richards. As his interpretation has ripened, Jones has found not only Troy Maxson's destructive fury but also his belly-shaking laughter, his lyric love of tall tales, his quicksilver charm, his stoic sense of duty and honor. & He manages to be at once real and of mythic proportions. The cast around him is also adroit, notably Mary Alice as his long-suffering but ultimately assertive wife, Ray Aranha as his best friend, and Frankie R. Faison, both funny and affecting as Troy's brother, brain damaged in combat during World...
Reagan has been a master of public symbols. He worked an alchemy of nostalgia and hope, visions of the past and the future collaborating. He gave the people reassuring images of a mythic American past -- the Olympic torch, the tall ships, the Statue of Liberty, the heroes in the visitors' gallery on State of the Union nights, Tom Sawyer come back to life as a yuppie -- a sweet, virtuous America recrystallized by Reagan after the traumatic changes of the '60s and '70s. Reagan gave Americans the idea of a future as spacious as their past...