Word: mythicize
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Most of all, they want to vacation in Florida, whose mythic allure and down-to-sand prices make it a powerful competitor of the Spanish resorts that have long attracted the working-class English vacationer. But today there are few places in the world where a lad and his lass from Lancashire can get a better vacation bargain than in what some call in jest "Blackpool in the Sun," after the blue-collar British vacation spot of less affluent times. Two weeks at a Miami Beach hotel, round-trip air fare included, can cost as little as $470. One British...
...Aleknas, like many other voters, is asking: "Why did I think that?" Indeed, the Camelot legacy is turning out to be one of Kennedy's biggest handicaps, as many voters learn that he is not living up to their mythic memories of his brothers. Said Aleknas: "I was looking at the name and not the man. I realize that now." Said Steelworker Allen: "Strength is what we're seeking, and you have to ask, 'How much strength does the man have?' " Tren Miller, 30, a high school science teacher in La Vista, Neb., had hoped that...
...moves briskly through this classic obstacle course. And why not? She was named for the Greek princess who knew her way around a maze, and those false starts tell much about the female condition. Some are searing: a humiliating first love, a horrific illegal abortion, even an infanticide of mythic proportion. Other beginnings-an unfulfilled love affair, a suicide attempt-erupt with a pyrotechnic glare that gradually dims under the author's keen, ironic scrutiny. In this case, the prologue is an end unto itself...
Star Wars (1977). A space opera by George Lucas, redolent of yesteryear's comic books and movie serials, that is also Jung-at-heart in its cheerful evocations of basic, mythic stuff...
...that few museums were prepared to meet. Consequently, his farm outside Westminster, Md., houses most of his immense oeuvre; and though he is almost 75, his work has yet to be adequately studied. All these ingredients-the large talent, the inaccessibility, the crusty pride-have made Still a somewhat mythic figure in American painting and put him in a position to dictate terms to any museum in the U.S. So it is with his current retrospective at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, a panorama of 79 huge canvases, Wagnerian in ambition and theme...