Word: mythicize
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...clueless psychiatrist for a prescription—is as improbable as the advice he dispenses to his insecure classmates. This counseling includes the gem: “Sometimes people say things and mean something else.” As might be expected, Charlie soon becomes a kind of mythic school hero, much to the chagrin of his principal, Mr. Gardner. Gardner (Robert Downey Jr.) is the lone dynamic character of the film. Downey plays the role so well that his double dislike of Charlie—both for upsetting his school and for pursuing his daughter Susan (Kat Dennings...
...Meanwhile, Texans for Obama is organizing a debate watching party at one of the city's legendary political watering holes. Over 400 self-styled Obamaniacs have signed up so far to gather at Scholz Garten, an old-style German beer garden near the capitol. It is a mythic place for Texas liberal Democrats - Davis said his activist parents hung out there 30 years ago - and many of the state's legendary progressives have gathered under the old pecan trees to weep in their beer and berate conservative Democrats and, later in the state's history, Republicans. It is the spot...
...There may be a better salesman than I am," Bill Clinton said, smiled, then paused as chuckles rippled through the audience. A better salesman? On what planet? This was classic, postpresidential Clinton, able to riff on his well-earned reputation as a mythic slinger of bullpucky. I should add that the topic in question was nuclear nonproliferation. He had the audience hanging on his every word about ... nuclear nonproliferation. The Bush Administration wanted to develop two new nuclear weapons, he said, while it was trying to persuade the Iranians to stop enriching uranium. "There may be a better salesman than...
...There may be a better salesman than I am," Bill Clinton said, smiled, then paused as chuckles rippled through the audience. A better salesman? On what planet? This was classic, postpresidential Clinton, able to riff on his well-earned reputation as a mythic slinger of bullpucky. I should add that the topic in question was nuclear nonproliferation. He had the audience hanging on his every word about ... nuclear nonproliferation. The Bush Administration wanted to develop two new nuclear weapons, he said, while it was trying to persuade the Iranians to stop enriching uranium. "There may be a better salesman than...
...maintains that no "historical" documents, such as correspondence with Prince Philip, were ever shredded: "My conscience is clear on what I destroyed." Still, prying open the wooden chest - and potentially unleashing those letters onto the world - may have been akin to opening Pandora's box. For a mythic figure like Diana, it's a fitting comparison...