Word: mythicized
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...play, "Fairy Tales of New York," which was produced on the London stage in 1961. In the novel, an enlarged and fundamentally altered work built around the play, Donleavy has stripped the classic fairy tale of its sharp dichotomy between good and bad, while retaining many of its mythic qualities. He has written an intensely personal vision of universal gloom. Like his hero, Donleavy was raised in New York, and like him, he sports a cultured accent, acquired at Trinity College in Dublin, and through life in England and Ireland...
...other meanings as well. Ruth was larger than life, (see box next page) a carefree superman in a giddy era. Aaron cannot depose him no matter how many home runs he hits. But Aaron, by comparison merely a flesh-and-blood Everyman, demonstrates that a hero need not be mythic...
...money. Affectation like this makes good copy and, judging from Dillinger, bad movies. Instead of the brash and abrasive effort that might have been expected, Dillinger is slack and derivative. Its main inspiration is Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, both in its ideas (outlaws as folk heroes, mythic celebrity as the ultimate reward of the criminal life) and its images (bloody faces pressed against car wind shields, lovers in a field shaded by a cloud passing briefly across the sun). But Bonnie and Clyde's humor, excitement and sense of fatefulness are woefully absent. Milius, who also...
Later, when Disney started to make animated features, the best of them unpretentiously, perhaps unconsciously touched the great mythic themes: they were tales of loss and of quests, and even their most comic moments were haunted by weird and frightening figments of untrammeled imaginations...
...point he is actually transformed into flesh and almost killed in a Corinthian slave uprising. While this clown stumbles about Corinth like Jimmy Olson, cub reporter for the Daily Planet, Superman Gardner delves into more universal themes, mustering all of his authorial prowess to drastically alter the mythic conception of Jason and Medeia...