Word: mythicize
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...shirts for fire-resistant jumpsuits, they climb behind the wheels of souped-up sedans?Chevrolets, Fords, Oldsmobiles-?or a Sunday afternoon of racing. And once the gentlemen have started their engines, they often revert to type, crowding each other, even banging fenders, at 170 m.p.h., just as the mythic forebears of their sport dueled with the revenooers on the back roads twisting through the Appalachian Mountains...
...accuracy. Herr is a writer with the talent of a smart bomb. Like James Webb in his fairly straightforward 1978 novel Fields of Fire, Herr is able to locate the thing inside the soldiers, and himself, that enjoys the appalling charm of war. Writes Herr: "But somewhere all the mythic tricks intersected, from the lowest John Wayne wet dream to the most aggravated soldier-poet fantasy, and where they did I believe that everyone knew everything about everyone else, every one of us there a true volunteer. Not that you didn't hear some overripe bullshit about it: Hearts...
Movies, TV shows, plays and memoirs will eventually construct a mythic reality around the American experience in Viet Nam. World War I's catastrophic trench warfare, which nearly wiped out a generation of England's best and brightest men (France's and Germany's as well), was so utterly new and unfamiliar that a highly literate assemblage spent the next decade, at least, formulating a conception of what it had all been about. Something of the same process is occurring regarding Viet...
...score--seems tongue-in-cheek. And we got to suspend our disbelief. Really suspend it. Until we're yanked in. "'Twas Beauty killed the Beast," says Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) at the end of the movie, and the purity of this epitaph is convincing. King Kong is distillation of mythic adventures, and it helped Hollywood define the word, "Entertainment...
...city where the late rightfielder Roberto Clemente became a mythic figure, that is quite a tribute. But Parker seems more than equal to the memories of Clemente. Despite his bulk (6 ft. 5 in., 230 Ibs.), his speed (100 yds. in 9.6 sec.) ranks him among the fastest in the major leagues, and he can throw screamers to the plate from the fence...