Word: mythicize
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...President, Reagan convinced many Americans that they were living in that mythic land once again. He was a master at associating himself with America's cherished symbols. The images in his 1984 "Morning in America" ad--the fresh-faced lad on his paper route, the proud mother in the simple church watching her daughter walk down the aisle, the burly man gently hoisting an American flag--moistened even many liberal eyes. In fact, Reagan practically became one of those symbols himself: the cowboy President, sitting astride his horse, framed by a rugged Western terrain...
...paint. Almost 30 ft. (9.1 m) wide, it bursts from a wall at one end of the gallery. A curving motorized blade rides slowly back and forth across its surface as though carving it, sending off splatters of wax along its circumference like solar flares. Wagnerian, mythic and muddy, it's something vast and strange being born, like a planet being fashioned out of primal elements and impersonal forces. Though in some ways this world is putty too, this time there's nothing silly about...
...standard of 2007’s Bill Gates or 1943’s George Marshall. Rowling may well prove to be an inspirational speaker. But she is certainly both an enthusiastic borrower, in the fine tradition of Shakespeare and Milton and other great authors who creatively recycled mythic themes and characters, and also a shameless copyright bully, who has brought charges against one of her biggest fans, Steven Vander Ark, for his plans to publish a Harry Potter lexicon. By the standard of Rowling’s complaint, Joseph Campbell could not have published the invaluable “Skeleton...
...other R&H shows, it is not set in an idealized small-town America or in a romanticized foreign land. There are no fantasy scenes or ballet-inspired dance numbers - the sort of things that gives shows like The King and I and Oklahoma their timeless, almost mythic quality. Yet that is not to say South Pacific is any less adventurous or innovative. This is a show in which the central love story - between Navy nurse Nellie Forbush and the middle-aged French plantation owner Emile de Beque - along with the show?s big love ballad, are basically disposed...
...game of make-believe took on an entirely new dimension in 1974 after E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson created the cultish, fantasy-role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. In the mythic game--an immediate obsession for smart, geeky teenage boys everywhere--players adhere to complex rules while pretending to be wizards, warriors, elves and other medieval-era oddballs. The still popular D & D spawned TV shows, films and countless face-to-face and online imitators. Gygax, who had been in poor health...