Word: mythicize
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...reverie of evil and redemption. Terrence Malick's edgy elegy to heartsick heartland America, Days of Heaven, took on the resonance of some dark folk ballad. And all Sergio Leone's pop-folk epics, from A Fistful of Dollars to Once upon a Time in America, have had their mythic dimensions deepened by Morricone themes. The music and the filmmaking are reciprocal: each makes the other indelible...
Reagan created a mythic world in the afternoon and gave it moral dimension at night. He wasn't so much describing reality as making a point. That is pretty much what he has been doing ever since. He denies that Hollywood marriages can't last as he is being divorced from Jane Wyman. He tells of acting triumphs in scenes never filmed. He brags he spent less as governor of California than either Brown after outspending both...
...past eleven months, toy manufacturers have dangled fresh enticements - before small children, hoping for the greatest separation of them all: the parents from their wallets. More interested in the here-and-now bottom line than in fairy tales or the mythic wellsprings behind children's play, the marketers have long since phased out the elves in Santa's workshop (and kicked the old gentleman upstairs to his present role as the Colonel Sanders of the Yuletide franchise). Big business, after all, is not kid stuff; the other way round is more like it. In the U.S. last Christmas, according...
...years to improve the quality of the Rhine's water, but that project has now been set back at least a decade. Indeed, as the bad news mounted, even the river's legend seemed in peril. In a front-page cartoon, the German weekly Die Zeit showed the mythic Lorelei looking lost and forlorn. The reason: chemicals were making the maiden's hair fall...
Some 15 years later Bernstein was up to his old tricks. In front of a bunch of pretentious, tuxedo-clad, self-construed student-leaders at Harvard, he preached about how the mythic "Enemy" prevents Americans from working for world peace--how fear of the Soviet Union stops this country from socializing industry and perhaps making life a little better for the worse off in this country...