| 单词 | mythic |
| 例句 | He has sung whole love songs to the cynical crowds, told tall stories of courage and honor, doing all this without any mythic display, without savvy, almost embarrassing the urban throng. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It had a mythic quality as old as Genesis. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was mythic and romantic, being an intimate witness to this turn in life’s cycle, but Mother had been right, I didn’t like it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He called a great prince of Dubai with his mythic charm and told him our situation. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z After the porter left I stood, bookended by my suitcases, and stared out my little window at the mythic stone gate and its otherworldly battlements. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I drive down the dark, empty road behind the grocery store to where Batavia’s mythic Lincoln Tree once stood. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z But here, so near the university, they seemed so unreal as to be almost mythic. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z To me, he was like a mythic figure.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Some people on the trail take on an almost mythic status because of their idiosyncrasies. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z For me she would forever be a mythic weaver in the basement of an ancient house in Ardestan. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Mars has become a kind of mythic arena onto which we have projected our earthly hopes and fears. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Down in the city, the buildings were stone, intricately carved with scenes from the natural world and the mythic one. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Even when dressed in a stiff suit, like a door-to-door salesman, he seemed to have sprung from a mythic age. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Many mythic heroes in Greek and Norse mythology, after all, made celebrated efforts to visit Hell. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z You were not born of mythic oak or stone.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z This image is an illustration from the Persian epic poem The Shahnama, which begins in the mythic past but includes a sequence of real rulers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z As the South started to look like everywhere else, he sought out its places that retained aspects of its mythic but impoverished past. William A. Christenberry, Photographer of Rural South, Dies at 80 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z The times, indeed, were changing, a factor that “Big Jake” specifically addresses with an opening montage that places the action in 1909, at the end of the American West’s mythic period. Video: The Many Shades of Wayne 2011-05-27T17:49:21Z She later produced a series of paintings that engaged female artists of the past, notably Frida Kahlo, the focus of several works with mythic overtones. Miriam Schapiro, 91, a Feminist Artist Who Harnessed Craft and Pattern, Dies 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z His juvenile fantasy involving the redemption of mythic Russia through the manly intercession of Vladimir Putin is rendered in hilariously clunky animation. ‘Russian Troll Farm’ Review: Clock In, Undermine Democracy, Clock Out 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Every biographer faces the challenge of portraying and deciphering a subject’s parents — their history, their mythic resonance throughout the subject’s life. This new biography of Henry David Thoreau is the masterpiece he deserves 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Webb seems to have been hired mostly to keep Sony’s Spider-machine going, a tricky task given that the character doesn’t have the mythic grandeur and gravity that make Batman and Superman seem endlessly exploitable. Movie Review: Andrew Garfield Returns in ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ 2014-05-01T12:00:02Z They’ve long been warning that liberals want to establish an all-powerful state that restricts gun ownership, bans the sale of super-sized sodas and forces mythic “death panels” on the unwary. Deconstruction zone: Doubling down on dystopia, preventing the triumph of Trump’s will 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Other than that, he rarely uses a simple first person in his songwriting, preferring older models of storytelling, particularly ballad traditions in which individual experience takes on a mythic, universal quality. Alasdair Roberts: 'I've always been drawn to heavy, big old ballads' 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z A single verse drops zombies, mutants, and goblins into the equation, and everything centers around some mythic “tablet of values.” Dirty Projectors Summon Pure Emotion on About To Die EP 2012-11-01T17:00:13Z There are a few of note, including Arpita Singh, an Indian artist born a decade before partition, whose forceful, thickly daubed paintings of fleshy and contorted women imbricate mythic and everyday imagery. A Festival of New Asian Art, Seeking a Direction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z “Blue Bloods” dangles before us the possibility that it might go mythically Greek. | 'Blue Bloods': The Thin Family Line: A Dynasty of City Cops 2010-09-23T23:05:00Z Of all the unscripted series on TV -- including its equally engaging CBS sister series "The Amazing Race" -- this is the only one that transcends its own format and attains a weird kind of mythic resonance. "Survivor" redeems itself 2011-03-17T13:18:00Z This week: Tales of colonial Africa, mythic India and ancient China. L.A. theater openings, May 21-28: 'Les Blancs,' 'Battlefield' and more 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z And beyond just motherly love, the dish represented a rustic, agrarian past that evoked nostalgia for the mythic America of a simpler time, before the widespread urbanization of the country. Why apple pie isn’t so American after all 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z And its characters, mythic or not, can feel like cartoons of Black pain, violence and poverty. Review: ‘Porgy and Bess’ Returns to a New Opera Landscape 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Almost alone among their contemporaries, they – or rather Dave Clark – retained control over the production of their records and their master recordings: a business savvy that many more mythic groups might have wished to emulate. Pop at the pictures: the Dave Clark Five 2012-12-17T16:25:00Z This is splendid puppetry, imbued with poignancy and the pulsing, drum-driven drama of mythic quest. Review: In ‘Book of Mountains & Seas,’ Puppets Embark on Mythic Quests 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z It is a film of mythic proportion that valiantly strives to do, well, pretty much everything. The Mythic Maximalism of Darren Aronofsky’s “Mother!” 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z The word "mythic" appears in nearly every appraisal of the recently deceased Robbie Robertson's immense contribution to popular music. How Robbie Robertson's hidden Indigenous and Jewish heritage influenced The Band's mournful songs 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z Ruhl’s words in the play and the resultant libretto are few enough to feel precisely chosen, chiseled into marble — a mythic short-spokenness that lends the words heft and levity at once. Perspective | For the new opera ‘Eurydice,’ a challenge of mythic scale: Retelling the Orpheus myth without looking back 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Despite a handful of unusual powers, these two mythic creatures are still strangers in a strange land, caught between the folk traditions from which they spring and the modern world. Books of The Times: ‘The Golem and the Jinni,’ a Novel by Helene Wecker 2013-05-06T19:57:43Z Writers can take on a mythic quality: solitary figures who conjure imaginary worlds and see more than the rest of us in the world we share. Legends Live on In an Editor's Book 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z I have ethical objections to how reality shows strive to turn real people into mythic heroes; the nature-centric cable series on Discovery and Animal Planet are often especially guilty of this. The whalers' worst nightmare sets sail again 2011-06-03T19:04:00Z This jauntily mythic motif suggests the Norse equivalent of Northwest Coast art while also evoking the primordial modernism of Kandinsky, Klee and Marsden Hartley. Alexander Tovborg: ‘Eternal Feminine’ 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z There are some familiar Harjo motifs—celestial bodies, mythic and anthropomorphized animals—and a few heavy-hitting abstractions: “Grief is killing us. Anger tormenting us. Sadness eating us with disease,” she writes in one poem. Joy Harjo, the Poet of American Memory 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z There’s beauty in his panoramas and charm in his reflexive gestures, typified by Jeremiah’s love for the mythic heroism that foreshadows his and Lefty’s future. Review: The Sidekick as Hero in ‘The Ballad of Lefty Brown’ 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z His “Break” train mural, from 1980, an ecstatic explosion of cadmium and white, marked a stylistic rupture in the field, and is still referred to mythically. Futura, a King of Graffiti, Returns to His Roots 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z That registers as colorful projection, even if it speaks to how certain character actors, given the right roles and directors, develop a mythic aura of their own. Harry Dean Stanton: Fully Inhabiting Scenes, Not Stealing Them 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z RS's near-contemporary, Dylan Thomas, gleefully burnished his image as a young Bohemian genius, and Yeats, one of his poetic heroes, certainly took his own mythic persona very seriously. RS Thomas: Serial Obsessive by M Wynn Thomas – review 2013-04-06T08:30:19Z Then he died and became more famous, a mythic cultural figure celebrated in hagiographic films and a Bob Dylan song. Lenny Bruce Shattered Taboos, but Was He Funny? 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z They never met, which keeps Almaraz a mythic figure to him. In life and on canvas, the 'tragic explosions' and L.A. dreamscapes of artist Carlos Almaraz 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z And the scents, with their sweet spice, seem to invoke the mythic imagery of the place and its hold on the imagination. Exhibition Review: Temptations Found in Gardens of Islamic Delight 2011-05-20T23:27:00Z The narrator lives in a country whose mythic propositions hang in the same limbo as her run-on sentence. Can One Sentence Capture All of Life? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Yet, in the film’s famously ambiguous coda we find he has become a mythic figure, a martyr to Manifest Destiny with some of the golden glow of George Armstrong Custer. DVD: John Ford?s ?Fort Apache? on Blu-ray From Warner Home Video 2012-03-25T01:23:02Z “After the Aqueduct” approaches its subject from a variety of angles – physical, historical, social, political and mythic. Meditations on southern California's water lifeline 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The book’s mythic quality owes much to landscape. Review | At 19, on a whim, she entered the world’s most grueling horse race — and won 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z The title evokes a piece of ancient, almost mythic film history: that surreal, Orphic moment, associated in the popular mind with “The Jazz Singer,” when pictures began to talk. Movie Review: ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet,’ by Alain Resnais 2013-06-07T00:57:27Z But others of a less discursive bent embraced the island’s riotous ways and helped to grant the park its mythic status. Coney Island: The Cyclone! The Hot Dogs! The Art! 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The characters are haunted by ghosts, and our reviewer writes that in Ward’s novel, ordinary people “possess the weight and the value of the mythic.” What to Read Before You Go to Mississippi 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z You always hear about these actors and executives, and they’re mythic characters. The Boswell of Beverly Hills: A Historian of Homes 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The opera turns brutally mythic during the last scenes, when the Guest is torn to pieces by a swarm of screaming Maenads. Music Review: Premiere of Wolfgang Rihm?s ?Dionysos? at Salzburg 2010-08-01T22:45:00Z Exhibitors present works in the mythic soundstages and site specific installations in the movie sets of the New York back lot. Paris Photo, Photo Independent fairs hit Hollywood this weekend 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Garner is a painter, and his two canvases here are surrealistic juxtapositions of commercial, natural and mythic imagery. In the galleries: Watercolors reveal a forceful vision at Touchstone 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z But they shared a fascination with organic shapes, mythic themes and the emotional power of strict simplicity. The painful truth about those Noguchi stage designs 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z The connections between “Coming to America” and “Black Panther” — both rare depictions of Black royalty and a mythic Africa — are many. 33 years later, Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall return to Zamunda 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z What may sound like a spoiler is actually the looming aura of inevitability that gives “Blue” its mythic force. ‘Blue’ is the opera on police violence that America needs to see, but can’t 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z But the stories felt more mythic than real: the voluble little boy was so far removed from the adult he'd become. Fancy dress by Kate Horsley 2010-12-26T00:05:12Z A mythic rebel drawn by Sophocles, she risks her life to bury her disgraced dead brother, an enemy of the state. At Under the Radar, Family Histories Bubble Up With No Easy Answers 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z These instant artifacts possess a contemporary sensibility, yet also a mythic quality. Review | In the galleries: Three local artists explore the transient nature of identity 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The interludes, taped separately at Joshua Tree National Park in California, feature photos and film footage, and like the album, evoke the mythic American West. ‘Western Stars’ Review: Bruce Springsteen and Broken Cowboys 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z A latter-day warrior is beguiled to his inevitable fate by, as her name suggests, a temptress in the mythic tradition. John Stammers's top 10 love poems 2011-02-09T10:26:17Z Tall and gaunt, with graying dreadlocks, his deep-set eyes conveying a stoic, bone-weary resignation, he suggested a mythic African pilgrim leaning on a walking stick while roaming the world on an endless spiritual journey. | 'London River': ?London River? Stars Brenda Blethyn - Review 2011-12-06T23:36:18Z Politicians pander to a mythic middle class in their stump speeches. Tipping breeds indentured servitude 2013-09-09T12:00:00Z The image is both whimsical and pleasingly mythic. In the life-without-death play ‘A Bid to Save the World,’ oranges are the new black 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z All it takes is a certain passion for this improbable, impossible, mythic city — especially when it’s hurting. The Italian Cafe Where New Yorkers Sample La Dolce Vita 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z But the movie’s driving force is its mythic performance scenes, which are choreographed, sung and acted with clear, balletic conviction by the film’s star, Q’orianka Kilcher, who collaborated with Chickasaw researchers and advisers. Review: ‘Te Ata’ Shares a Heroic Story of a Chickasaw Ambassador 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Characters were called “The Grandmother,” “The Soldier,” and so on, and I wanted to like it, too, but I couldn’t get over my resistance to this idea of mythic archetypes. This Week in Fiction: Zadie Smith on Stories That Implicate Everybody 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z The interest shown by local teenagers and passers-by, and the distant sirens of police cars, added to the sense that Ellams's mythic city is our city, too. Knight Watch – review 2012-07-13T14:44:42Z But “Son of the White Mare” isn’t just old hat; the simultaneously geometric and fluid animation renders each mythic trope totally new. ‘Son of the White Mare’ Review: Vibrant Myths From Hungary 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, at N.Y.U., he’s made another short—brilliant, mythic, strange—about a woman and a bull, which he hopes to take to festivals. The Screening Room: “The Kármán Line” 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z He first traveled to Tangier in 2006 on what he called a “purely random” impulse, drawn in part by the mythic portrayals of earlier expatriates like Paul Bowles and William S. Burroughs. Oliver Laxe?s Morocco Film ?You All Are Captains? 2011-10-16T04:10:13Z Taken from the Child novel "One Shot," Jack Reacher is all that: a former military investigator who's become a bit of a mythic figure since he's gone off the grid. Review: Cruise oozes low-key charisma as `Reacher' 2012-12-18T22:47:11Z It’s clear where Mantel’s sympathies lie: Royals are mythic, archaic, “both gods and beasts,” but it’s their assassins — the stiff-backed, lawyerly, provincial fanatics — whom she loves. Hilary Mantel Takes On Royals and Rebels in a Book of Essays 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z However mythic this figure — individual, self-reliant, “fundamentally innocent” — the illusion of freedom he enjoys is meaningful, Lewis argues, because it makes for fiction capable of “profound tragic understanding” rather than hopelessness. Review: ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2,’ Katniss’s Final Battle 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z They’re simultaneously mythic and as modern as a can of Goya black bean soup. In the galleries: Norman Rockwell would have recognized these socialist images 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z But this production makes it clear that what we’re hearing is a story, told with both urgency and lyrical affection, in which what’s remembered acquires mythic status. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Color Purple’ and ‘Prudencia Hart’ Sing Anew in London 2013-07-16T21:56:11Z In facing the loss of humanity she felt dealing with her stalkers, Ms. Case was able to fuse her own struggles with those of her mythic, historical heroines. How Neko Case Finally Unleashed Her Feminist Rage 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Unlike the characters in “Girls,” no one in “Broad City” is caught up in a mythic, romantic dream of making it in the Big Apple. “I’m not saying you’re wrong”: Why Abbi is the best part of “Broad City” 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z The book’s second poem, Lucille Clifton’s “the earth is a living thing,” evokes rich, mythic images of blackness — a bear, a hawk — to convey an encompassing vision of the world. Poetry to Tap Into Women’s Spiritual Sides 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Some recent westerns like to delve into the political and ethical implications of the tradition, seeking to balance the demands of mythic resonance and historical authenticity. ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ Review: The Coens Go Darkly West Again 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Brünnhilde is a Valkyrie, a mythic creature who ferries departed souls up to Valhalla. Ring cycle day two: I am hooked 2013-07-24T12:04:26Z Ra, the mythic sun god, was an essential deity. How good is the King Tut exhibition? An art critic weighs in 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z But they will certainly see something not native: a giant sculpture of a mythic kraken gripping a shipwreck. Culture and Conservation Beneath the Sea 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Played in the film by Tony Todd, he returns as Candyman, a mythic, slasher spirit whom the residents of Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing project believe is responsible for the murders of at least 25 residents. Modern “Candyman” director offers special Juneteenth message on “duality of the Black experience” 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z A few of the subjects are well known, but many seem to be mythic or fictional. Review | In the galleries: Photojournalist’s memoir is a tale of two cities 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Say the names of those cities to yourself — Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery — and try not to conjure the mythic struggle for civil rights, the opposite of the prosperity gospel. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z “What I love about that idea is that we go into a mythic landscape that is bigger than life,” he said. From the Underworld to Our World: An Opera About Frida and Diego 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Once it became clear that the zombie could be detached from Haitian origin – excised, unclipped – it then became a sort of mythic free agent. How did the zombie become so white? 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z And if audiences are flocking to the darkly mythic dance flick "Black Swan," why not a national tour of "The Red Shoes"? Musicals from movies, TV, history try to find footing on slippery Broadway 2010-12-18T01:22:59Z That said, the mythically powerful demigod is back on the big screen in the simply titled "Hercules" and the results are canny, fast-paced, and, for what the film attempts to accomplish, enjoyable. Dwayne Johnson's 'Hercules' packs action-filled punch 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z The romances are more true to life, less mythic, more dispiriting. Watch “Howards End”—Then Read It 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z In the video for David Bowie’s “Lazarus,” released last week, the mythic singer and rock ’n’ roll shape-shifter, ever thin but bordering on gaunt, is blindfolded and writhing in a hospital bed. David Bowie Allowed His Art to Deliver a Final Message 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z The terror and glamour of the Berserker fighters who tear off their clothing and run naked and blood-streaming into battle unites the books, which still boast a mythic grandeur in keeping with their subject matter. Old stories for young readers 2011-02-24T10:32:26Z “The idea of the gun-toting character — that mythic model in American culture — I don’t know if that goes away as a symbolic image on the screen,” he said. Lights, Camera, Weapons Check? Actors Worry After Baldwin Charges. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Baring all is the mythic adventure of the artist's studio: in the atelier, a muse strips for a painter – it's the old story. Lucian Freud storms the Pompidou Centre 2010-03-16T21:35:00Z The Ku Klux Klan made use of costumes and mythic rituals as they practiced extreme violence against African-Americans. What Do You Do When Extremism Comes for the Hawaiian Shirt? 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z The nod to the mythic, libertarian marketplace of ideas ignores vastly unequal access to this marketplace on the basis of our intersecting identities. Amazon sales of transphobic book revives greater free speech debate 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Within the current nerve center of hip-hop — especially here in Georgia — he is known, somewhat mythically, as a “witch doctor,” a “magician,” a “god in the streets.” Atlanta’s #BillionDollarLawyer Is Looking Out for Your Favorite Rappers 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Except that this wild child raised by apes turned wild man forever caught between civilization and nature is a great mythic character — a rich, dense tangle of narrative, philosophical and political meanings. Review: A ‘Tarzan’ With a Few Twists in the Hollywood Vine 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z In the 1950s the US was telling itself a mythic, grandiose, heroic story about the second world war and GI Joe saving the world. Censored gay sex in From Here to Eternity restored for new edition 2011-04-05T15:20:59Z “The Girl Who Takes an Eye for An Eye” intensifies the mythic elements of Larsson’s vision. Lisbeth Salander is back in ‘The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye’ 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z It is that hinterland between the real and the imagined, the everyday and the mythic, that Hopper's best images revisits again and again. Dennis Hopper: actor, director and ? yes ? brilliant photographer 2010-04-28T12:17:00Z Instead, when we met Don, ten minutes into Sunday’s premiere, he was shot like a mythic figure trapped in his own public iconography. ArtsBeat: ‘Mad Men’ Recap: Are You Buying the Pitch? 2014-04-14T11:31:40Z “Balthus was a loner,” James insisted, a lordly, romantic loner “who thought of the artist as a heroic, mythic figure.” Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XII 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Or that her two blasé pals face mythic dangers as well. 'Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls' is a subversive romp through modern Moscow 2012-10-04T20:05:08Z Mr. Birtwistle’s work has always dealt with mythic themes, and he returns to them in these two “scenas” for soprano, tenor and six instruments. Review: Harrison Birtwistle’s ‘The Cure’ and ‘The Corridor,’ Myths With a Twist 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z It is allied with “verismo,” a post-Romantic musical and literary movement that centered on relatively realistic characters — as opposed to the aristocratic and mythic figures previously the norm. ‘La Bohème’: Puccini’s bohemians live on, in opera and in life 2013-02-14T23:41:36Z On the contrary, his is an attempt to recover the mythic foundations of the present. An Unusual Jewish Novel, Full of Blood and Incense 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z In Estes's evaluation, the characters in a mythic story such as Demeter and Persephone represent parts of the human psyche. Chasing rainbows: why myths matter 2012-07-18T10:33:12Z “Asteroid City,” the latest from Wes Anderson, is filled with the assiduous visuals, mythic faces and charming curiosities that you expect from this singular filmmaker. ‘Asteroid City’ Review: Our Town and Country 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z On another level, the movie wants to be as specific as possible in its reconstruction of chaotic events that took place 46 years ago and have acquired a mythic dimension that demands heroic enlargement. For ‘Stonewall,’ an Indiana-Born Avatar 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z For almost 500 years, pilgrims worshiped the Virgin’s dark visage, and it accrued the kind of mythic currency integral to Catholic worship. A Controversial Restoration That Wipes Away the Past 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Neil, you said earlier you wanted to balance the mythic element and realistic element. Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z This much is true, but then we haven't all been to parties that spawned whole musical genres, forging an alliance between sound and place that retains a mythic glow 20 years later. Kyuss: Kings of the stoner age 2011-03-25T10:00:04Z As much as any of the year's more ponderous best picture contenders, Jesse Moss' documentary speaks to the mythic core of America. From Prop. 8 to Joe Paterno, six contenders for feature documentary 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Visit the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco and you’ll find fascinating artifacts and plenty of lore surrounding the mythic, still active law enforcement group. Texas TV: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z They were at once on this particular river and also on a mythic river, anywhere in the territory of the African diaspora, away from an ancestral home. Review: A Boat Ride in the Bronx With Ancestral Spirits 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z That Mr. Smith creates his own patterns and lays out his fabrics on his bedroom floor lends him a kind of mythic quality.” 2010-02-13T02:22:00Z While never underplaying the misogyny that triggers Jennifer’s ordeal, Fargeat abandons realism in favour of mythic fantasy, archetype and superhuman endurance. How the 'rape-revenge movie' became a feminist weapon for the #MeToo generation 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Filled with mythic style and magical thinking, “Altiplano” feeds the eyes but gives rations to the mind. | 'Altiplano': Culture Collisions in the Andes 2010-08-20T00:58:00Z The rock — a small mountain forming an island — was even more isolated by its mythic tides. France’s stunning Mont St-Michel inspires 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z The first of two supply runs took five days, and the saga quickly reached mythic proportions. Going Beyond Balto, Film Shows Life-Saving Dog Run 2013-12-06T15:28:44Z Their forms, along with those of other mythic scourges — some sculptures, some bas-reliefs, some murals — make up “The Greek Monsters,” an exhibition adorning the lobby and the construction walls. Spare Times for Children for July 11-17 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z She said the opera form allows its creators “to mix the mythic, the historic and contemporary tragedies with the idea of hope and the idea of change.” Harlem Stage Prepares to Export Its Own Opera 2013-07-28T21:33:45Z Intimately shot and interspersed with archive materials and wearily poignant spoken interludes, it’s a paean to a mythic American west fading under the rocker’s boots. Streaming: Little Women – where to watch the best previous adaptations 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z Their mythic adventure stories colonised the imagination of this new generation and took on folkloric qualities of universal recognition and, more problematically, universal ownership. Sweded movies: the end of Hollywood as we know it? 2012-07-05T19:00:03Z She was talking about the mom that occupies a mythic space in the shared public imagination. What Does It Mean to ‘Look Like a Mom’? 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Still, these early women are archetypes rather than individuals, closer to the mythic figures of Corot’s Neo-Classical and Romantic forebears. From the Beach to the Boudoir 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z A few inches away hangs “The Moon Woman,” an intoxicating work from 1942 that features mythic symbols and emphasizes the dark pinks and turquoise blues of its giant neighbor. A Jackson Pollock Takes Its First Trip to Venice 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Set in her home town of Ponca City, Okla., the book introduces a memorable and resilient character, Abyssinia Jackson, who appears in several subsequent books and becomes something of a mythic figure. Joyce Carol Thomas, children’s author who accented black rural life, dies at 78 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z The kooky plot twist epitomizes the way dark themes — deceit, suspicion, prejudice, cruelty — transmute into joyous humor in these entremeses, which weave gracefully into what seems a mythically deep bucolic celebration. Rollicking one-act plays at the Kennedy Center’s Iberian Suite festival 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z It is filled with a romantic longing for the past: the Irish past, the mythic past and also Yeats’s own. In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Classics like those tend to be defended with a logic that some have applied to “Porgy”: This is an art form that deals in broad strokes and the mythic. Review: ‘Porgy and Bess’ Returns to a New Opera Landscape 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Pasternak is the embodiment of a gen-z legend, some sort of mythic hybrid of a silicon-valley tech star turned renegade social justice warrior. Fake chicken is coming for the Impossible Burger 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z These are arranged around the mythic image of a blue woman with a cow’s head and large breasts studded with multiple udders. Art in Review: ‘Signs of the Times,’ at Jonathan LeVine 2012-08-16T19:58:30Z Wenders picked up on something else that was in the air—the yearning for a mythic America that no longer existed. Where Wim Wenders Went Wrong 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z One of the loveliest offerings is “Something Familiar,” a swaying waltz about the bittersweet transience of a choice moment — and, just maybe, the mirage-like beauty of a mythic past. The Playlist: Bruno Mars Gives His Funk a Flashy Makeover 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z This is an origin story, first and foremost, establishing the mythic background and modern mission of its main character. Review: ‘Wonder Woman’ Is a Blockbuster That Lets Itself Have Fun 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z At once banal and mythic, these later images cast an ambiguous light back on the soup cans. Review: A ’60s View of Warhol’s Soup Cans, at MoMA 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z In Matthew’s telling, Clay is graced with Homeric greatness, tinged with mythic prowess and affliction. Review | ‘Bridge of Clay,’ by ‘Book Thief’ author Markus Zusak, was 20 years in the making 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Such museums are monuments, temples mythically recounting an empire’s origins, displaying its accomplishments, affirming its power and its encyclopedic grasp. Critic?s Notebook: To Each His Own Museum, as Identity Goes on Display 2010-12-28T23:04:19Z It’s a quirky piece about patterns in nature and art — nothing cosmic or mythic but compelling enough. Review: Dance That Reaches for the Stars, With Help From Technology 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z But the remarkable specificity of her songcraft and the expansive, almost mythic scope she brings to her human experience as a wife, mother and 40-something woman demand to be taken seriously. After 16 Years in ‘Hadestown,’ Anaïs Mitchell Emerges With a New Album 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Woodstock has continued to reverberate throughout the ensuing decades, as the event took on almost mythic qualities. Woodstock 1969: A Story Vastly Bigger Than Editors Realized 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Yet it’s not the development of any motif that is Perry’s tribute to the literary heroes—grand, mythic, Olympian, terrifying—who loom large in his imagination. The Actor as Intellectual Artist in “Listen Up Philip” 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z Instead of dramatizing Kahlo’s physical and emotional torments and her notoriously tempestuous relationship with Rivera realistically, they embed these biographical details in the mythic context of a Day of the Dead ritual. From the Underworld to Our World: An Opera About Frida and Diego 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z The book has been called a contender for that mythic construct, the great American novel. AM Homes interview: 'I write the things we don't want to say out loud' 2013-06-07T19:00:03Z His was a coded question to sift out fellow Jews floating up the mythic vein of the German identity. Tracing Jewish History Along the Rhine 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The tiny Jamaican backwater of Gibbeah is locked in a mythic battle for its soul. Revisiting Marlon James’s Debut Novel, ‘John Crow’s Devil’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Medusa's my favourite of all the Greek mythic people. Neil Gaiman's top 10 mythical characters 2013-06-14T08:00:00Z Words are the Dragon, and the poem itself, long and slim and elegantly draped over the pages, resembles a live, if mythic, creature, animated by the poet's breath, and exhaling imagination's fire. Poem of the week: Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock 2010-10-20T12:52:00Z But Cardin says that La Haine remains “mythic” for people there: “It’s still legendary. It’s stayed in the memory of a whole generation and carried on circulating.” How La Haine lit a fire under French society 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z He has a mythic reputation as a reclusive mountain-dwelling hermit, a monk of materials, with standards so exacting that few clients have the patience, or deep enough pockets, to indulge his uncompromising approach. Peter Zumthor: RIBA awards gold medal to architecture's man of mystery 2013-02-05T15:00:56Z The material on his site puts Weber’s themes on full display: youth, innocence, nature, love, sex, the human body in all its glory, a mythic America that exists only in his photographs and our imaginations. T Magazine: Weber on the Web 2011-10-11T15:55:48Z The Seattle and Oregon symphonies’ solution: ask famed theater designer Michael Curry, whose work includes Broadway’s “Frozen” and “The Lion King,” to portray Stravinsky’s mythic tale using life-size puppets. Stravinsky’s ‘Persephone’ at Seattle Symphony goes big with puppets, dancers, singers and full orchestra 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Much of the choreography has a monumental quality that recalls the mythic works of Martha Graham. Dance Review: Sean Curran Company at the Joyce Theater 2013-02-01T22:53:53Z For Aucoin, retaining this balance of the mythic and the modern was one concern. Perspective | For the new opera ‘Eurydice,’ a challenge of mythic scale: Retelling the Orpheus myth without looking back 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Sustenance entwines with violence, life with death, in an artistic landscape of mythic American dimensions. Matthew Barney's 'River of Fundament'? Well, it's certainly big 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z Of the great mythic events in Scottish history, only one has involved the ruination of the enemy. The Eagle bears the standard Scottish stereotype 2011-03-28T09:55:28Z There are horseback riders silhouetted against retina-singeing vistas, desolate outposts appearing like sunbaked hallucinations, and low-angle shots that magnify people into mythic figures. In ‘The English,’ Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer Saddle Up 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z There’s a mythic quality to the silhouetted figures who step from the shadows to sing and play instruments. Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z At the end of the cavern, a rough niche whose surface is covered by glittering pieces of costume jewelry alludes to treasures often discovered in mythic caves and in psychoanalytic spelunking. Review: Mike Kelley Uncorks Superman’s Kandor City in a Bottle 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z It seems ideal for Wagner’s more mythic works, and thrives in Ariadne’s opulent stylization; here is a role Davidsen was truly born for. Review: A Soprano’s Sound Floods the Met in ‘Ariadne’ 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Her novels — they are often both pensive and mythic in tone — are slowly making their way into English. ‘The Books of Jacob,’ a Nobel Prize Winner’s Sophisticated and Overwhelming Novel 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z The world of Robertson's poems tends to be one governed by unfathomable and harsh impulses and imperatives, whether they're dealing with mythic characters or those from our own reality. Hill of Doors by Robin Robertson – review 2013-03-01T17:45:01Z Ms. Gordon is magically adept at fusing the banal and the mythic in a creature like this. Books of The Times: Some Time at the Races, With Luck and Change 2010-12-01T22:57:00Z The Bear, a story of murder and a mythic bear, is at the in Manchester. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-04-22T14:24:33Z And Thomas Pynchon's mythic reclusion was further burnished by the acceptance for the National Book award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974. Authoring a rejection of acceptance-speech cliché 2013-03-01T13:49:00Z “I’m not a Christian,” he said, preferring what he calls a more “mythic” reading of the story that, yes, does involve both a cross and a resurrection. Theater: The Passion of Michael Sheen 2011-04-20T12:30:05Z Both Arnold’s Mount Rainier sighting and the crashed saucer in Roswell will go on to assume mythic status, subject to endless lines of speculation, research, and argument. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z Also fascinating is how Lange was able to achieve mythic heights of success professionally while struggling with marriage and family. Review | How Dorothea Lange ended up capturing the Great Depression — and becoming an influential photographer 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z He favored forms that defamiliarized the familiar, shapes that hint at the bodily or the more generally biological, mythic archetypes and intangible dreams. Miro, Noguchi and the name you should know (but probably don't): Jeremy Anderson 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z It explores the same intense imagery of death and desire as French artists such as Moreau and Redon, and is a rich insight into the mythic ambitions of 19th-century British art.• Cy Twombly, Ren? Magritte and Thomas Struth ? the week in art 2011-07-08T16:17:00Z He notes that fascist politicians, who portray themselves as defenders of a pure, mythic, patriarchal past, frequently play on fears that alien groups pose a sexual threat. Is Donald Trump a Fascist? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Smith said it would have thrown the film’s mythic aspirations off balance if Ridgeley were on camera but not Michael, who died seven years ago at 53. Andrew Ridgeley on George Michael and Life After Wham! 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Written with passion, empathy and humor, Frazier's detailed historical, physical and personal exploration of Siberia is a brilliant accounting of a little known but mythic land. 27 best books of 2010: The Seattle Times looks back at a year of great reading 2010-12-18T01:15:33Z “Every one of these characters are at a crossroads in their lives and, of course, the crossroads is such a mythic theme in American musical history.” Television: ‘Nashville,’ the TV Series Starring the City 2012-10-07T05:09:02Z To my relief, the directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, working with the screenwriter Julia Cox, trace Diana’s mythic roots not just to the naiads, but to zealots like Captain Ahab. ‘Nyad’ Review: Neptune’s (Estranged) Daughter 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z The bigger stumble, though, is the “song” of the title, coupled with the author’s efforts to apply a mythic dimension to his tale. A Zombie Novel for Our Virus-Stricken Times 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Birtwistle, an éminence grise among British modernists, has long dealt in mythic subjects, like the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice. The Week Ahead: May 23 ? 29 2010-05-20T20:56:00Z The only full-evening-length dance she choreographed, it is widely considered her masterwork, spanning more than two hours and reworking the mythic Greek tragedy of murder and retribution. Halim El-Dabh, Composer of Martha Graham Ballets, Dies at 96 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z For classical scholars, putting an emphasis on the material and physical aspects of war, taking the battles so literally, risks diminishing the the mythic legacy of the Greeks. A Misguided Impulse to Update the Greek Classics 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z A journalist who was born in Paris and educated in London, Poirier knows that we expect many things when we consider the mythic figures who populated Paris in the 1940s. Eavesdropping on Beauvoir, Sartre and Their Circle of Friends 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Stories and their telling run throughout this book, from official histories to tales of uncanny and mythic creatures whispered about late at night. A Métis Woman’s Husband Disappeared — or Did He? 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z These mythic tales may inspire Lotte and Kalle to reunite, but at what cost? This Year Is Complicated. Three New Novels Remind Us the Past Was No Picnic Either. 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z No, says Athena; she borrows the mythic name for fencing. Review: In ‘Athena,’ Two Teenage Fencers Parry Ordinary Life 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z It identifies them as mythic, shipwrecked survivors on a ravaged urban waterfront. | 'The Mouth of the Wolf': A Study of Time, Love and Decay in Genoa 2011-08-03T22:03:03Z His mythic status as a dancer and revolutionary choreographer has overshadowed her much longer, more productive career. Why Is Bronislava Nijinska Still Waiting in the Wings? 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z But Provence meant far more to Ford than easy living and sound diet: beneath its surface pleasures lay a mythic and historical substructure. Ford Madox Ford's affair with Provence 2010-08-20T23:00:00Z Saturday night is a time of mythic potential and mundane reality. Our Favorite Arts Pictures of 2020 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z The mythic figure that is the billionaire tech genius in the nowhere man tee may finally be about to meet its long overdue end. Hey Silicon Valley, It’s Time to Wear a Suit 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z The novel’s protagonists were Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae, former Texas Rangers who embodied the mythic cowboy traits of being loyal and fierce fighters. The True Story of the Texas Rangers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Even Obama's speech about the America Invents Act begins by explaining how Thomas Jefferson epitomized the nation's mythic spirit of invention and innovation. The iconic American inventor is still a white male — that’s an obstacle to race and gender inclusion 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z “Radix: The Eternal Feminine” reflects a mythic figure who is “both dark and light, mystery and revelation,” writes curator Claudia Rousseau. Review | In the galleries: Show at American University invokes the ‘Eternal Feminine’ 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z A Sibling Odyssey, in Space For most of its deliriously odd 75 minutes “Space//Space,” a mythic and slyly theatrical production by the experimental company Banana Bag & Bodice, seems like some kind of cosmic joke. Theater Review: ‘Space//Space’ by Banana Bag & Bodice at Collapsable Hole 2012-06-17T22:09:07Z Throne backs are carved into intertwining vines, mythic beasts and architectural elements. Art Review: ?The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen From the Isle of Lewis,? at the Cloisters 2011-11-17T23:25:24Z Although the photograph achieved mythic status, and some of its subjects scaled the heights of fame, Ms. Sterne retreated to the margins of art history. Hedda Sterne, an Artist of Many Styles, Dies at 100 2011-04-12T02:27:12Z Still, these characters are mythic beings, and an updated staging can make them seem ordinary. Critic?s Notebook: To Seal a Director?s Reputation, Put a ?Ring? on It 2011-07-04T21:00:06Z A mass murderer of near mythic proportions, for decades he has been erupting suddenly in violence, terrifying the German populace. Book World: ‘You,’ by Zoran Drvenkar is a thriller/road novel, stylishly written And the script balances humor, pathos and wish fulfillment as it portrays Alex’s rise from mopey dreamer to confident warrior, without overdoing the mythic portent. ‘The Kid Who Would Be King’ Review: Cult Director Waxes Arthurian 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z In a family home run by fear, on a mythic seashore or on a Texas back road, sparse lines work through scenes and traumas that anyone would find hard to explain. New works by poets Jennifer Moxley, Judy Halebsky, Saeed Jones 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z The story of the mythic singer’s journey to the underworld to bring back his lost beloved dramatizes the power of music itself. Gluck’s revolution: Pacific MusicWorks performs ‘Orphée,’ an opera by Marie Antoinette’s music teacher 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z He was primarily an allegorist who folded mythic figures into otherworldly visions of pagan religiosity. Klimt’s Women, Real and on Canvas 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z That resurgence set the stage for the nineteen-eighties proliferation of crack users and, of course, Rick willing himself into a mythic matchmaking magnate. The “I Do” of Addiction 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z It is divided into three wings, each named after mythic animals in Bolivian history. Bolivia opens $7 million museum honoring President Morales 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z But "Two Men in Town," a drama that's built on dread and circles the question of redemption for a newly released prisoner, falls short of the mythic territory it aspires to. Redemption tale 'Two Men in Town' is an uneven mix 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The film is self-consciously mythic, and that’s why it’s poignant: it wants to be a great and timely western. Hell and High Water: why film-makers should keep it slow and simple 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Given this mythic ritual’s ubiquity throughout the Pacific, unsuspecting tourists are well-advised to beware of “Pele’s curse.” In Hawaii, local legends enrich, inform the visitor experience 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z But listen closely; you’ll hear how these portrayals of a mythic, irreparably damaged future grow organically from fears and longings of the women’s artfully shaded afternoon chatter. For ‘Hangmen’ and ‘Escaped Alone,’ Connecting Threads in London 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Hushpuppy is searching for her mother, and also trying to save a world threatened by natural disaster, mythic beasts and well-meaning but soulless government authority. The Oscars Issue: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ Shares Something With ‘Lincoln’ 2012-12-28T16:51:45Z Organized by Richard Cheek, an architectural photographer and visual-history editor, the show offers innumerable other examples of the housing industry’s braiding of mythic imagination and commercial calculation. Art in Review: ‘Selling the Dwelling’: ‘The Books That Built America’s Houses, 1775-2000’ 2014-01-16T22:48:13Z This is music that seems to animate a mythic power that is both primeval and preternaturally sophisticated. A Guide to James Dillon's music 2013-02-04T15:50:00Z The women’s travails suggest something that’s part curse, part mythic cycle of guilt and part kaleidoscopic dread. Kurosawa’s ‘Penance,’ About the Legacy of a Girl’s Murder 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z While “mark-making” is a buzz phrase in contemporary art, West pursues her scratches and scribbles into a mythic past. Review | In the galleries: Up to his elbows in watery works and lustrous prints 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z In the Gallery Met itself will hang Ms. Peyton’s paintings, drawings and prints depicting many of Wagner’s mythic characters, among them Fricka and Wotan; there will also be etchings and drawings of Valkyries and Rhinemaidens. Inside Art: Cindy Sherman?s Guises All in a Single Place 2011-02-17T21:45:07Z Her collages, sculptures and videos examine the exploitation, resilience and grandeur of Black women, as social, spiritual and mythic beings. Wangechi Mutu: An Imagined World Made Possible 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Though evidently not lifted from cigarette or beer ads, they play on the mythic Old West without shedding much more light on the subject. Art Review: ?Perspectives? at International Center of Photography 2010-07-22T22:01:00Z This kind of failure is such a glorious, mythic, supernova failure that it’s worthwhile to hear it happen. Lou Reed and Metallica Go Loopy on Lulu 2011-11-01T09:00:11Z We felt ourselves connected, with no sense of detachment and no quotation marks, to the mythic lore and overwrought symbolism of baseball. How baseball got so lame: The national pastime is so white and so dreary — and is still a money machine 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Pop culture traces the mythic question of what makes a civilized beast. Who Wears the Wonderpants? Feminists, Amazons and the fate of the world 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z In the distance, at about 2 o’clock as you look to the horizon, lie three islands called Le Galli, home to the sirens, the mythic creatures whose song lured sailors to their doom. In Italy, among the literary A-list, I find my own siren song 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z The darkest supernatural myth about Zeppelin’s most mythic song is that if you play the recording backwards, you will hear Satanic messages encoded in Plant’s vocals. What exactly lurks within the backward grooves of “Stairway to Heaven?” 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z The contemporary aspect neatly matches up with a mythic dimension. Art Review: Thomas Houseago’s Outsize Sculptures at Storm King 2013-08-01T22:25:24Z The mythic qualities of the Godfather echo European folk tales that suggested a godparent acted outside normal boundaries. Family Matters: The Godparent Trap 2010-05-28T22:39:00Z But part of becoming a woman is realizing the mythic power of the little black dress. Op-Ed Columnist: It Goes With Everything, Even Bad Hair 2012-10-01T03:01:10Z At the start of Banwo’s mythic and captivating novel, she invites the reader into the home of young Yejide and her Granny Catherine in Trinidad, just in time for a story. When the Past Can’t Be Buried: Debut Novels Dredge Up Old Ties 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z In between the explicitly cited Lawrence and the implicitly footnoted Wayne, the action winds from New Mexico to Montana and the modern movie audience is led on a tour of a familiar mythic landscape. Review: ‘Hostiles’ Grapples With the Contradictions of the Western 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Each lent a mythic glow to a mother fading into memories of an idealized past. How Laurie Metcalf Became the Sarah Bernhardt of Broadway 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Speaking with an African accent that underscores his mythic presence as a war hero, Othello exudes the titanic certainty of someone who thinks in absolutes. Review: Jealousy and Lies in a No-Exit Theater of War in ‘Othello’ 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z But when you are in your 50s, college is an almost mythically distant land, and “Everybody Wants Some!!” is more than just nostalgic. Review: In ‘Everybody Wants Some!!,’ Casual Sex and Casual Philosophizing 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z That image of a cherished, practically mythic concert for an adoring and grateful few helps lay down the mood for “Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me.” | 'Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me ': ‘Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me’ Is Tribute to a ’70s Group 2013-07-02T22:00:30Z There are no mythic places in Wiseman’s world, which is a land of practicality and procedure. Review: ‘Monrovia, Indiana’ Is a Sharp, Lyrical Look at Small-Town America 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Doctor Sax comes next, mingling Kerouac's boyhood and his love of such pulp heroes as The Shadow with a dark, mythic tale that Ginsberg dismissed as "undigested fantasy". Visions of Jack Kerouac ... in an epic 13 volumes 2013-07-24T18:00:01Z There is a confidence in refusing to reach for mythic analogues. Saeed Jones’s Striking Memoir About Race, Sex, and Self-Invention 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Several have come straight from the Toronto Film Festival’s mythic Midnight Madness series, including the opening-night offering, a vampire-themed mockumentary, “What We Do in the Shadows,” that won an audience award there. Movie Listings for Oct. 31-Nov. 6 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Between rebels and rulers, it’s clear where her sympathies lie: Royals are mythic, but it’s their assassins whom she loves. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z That zebra forever after becomes a mythic evil, one of Enzo's touchstones for understanding life. 'The Art of Racing In the Rain' at Book-It: an amazing dog wagging his tale 2012-04-25T18:30:29Z The book opens in 1914 in a mythic Northern city reminiscent of Chicago and follows the fortunes of the Black servants for the White Barclay family. Review | Ladee Hubbard’s ‘The Rib King’ is a fascinating look at ambition, race and revenge 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z The 180-degree view from the penthouse of the Soho House lays out the city below as its mythic ideal. Bruce Wagner’s ‘Maps to the Stars’ shows dark side of sunny Hollywood 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Dream bread, mythic bread, was as white as a freshly laundered cuff. “An Evening with Joseph Conrad” 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The ideal boyfriend — beautiful, unattainable, inappropriately younger — becomes literally mythic. The Merman of Her Dreams 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z "It's not strict realism. There's a kind of mythic undertone to the story." Franzen set to publish fifth novel 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Atop Knocknarea, a loose stone pile 33 by 180 feet and rising perhaps 40 feet, is said to be the grave of Queen Maeve, mythic goddess and ruler of Ireland. Climbing the summits of Irish literature The Crystal Singer stories are less obviously mythic than the Pern ones — there aren’t a lot of Old English epics about people cutting crystals. Dragonsong: The Unforgettable Anne McCaffrey 2011-11-30T16:30:35Z In a director’s note, Mr. Sowry explains that weeks of filming were compressed into a mythic “day as a life,” as he calls it. Review: ‘The Reef’ Speaks in the Tongue of a Chamber Orchestra 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z The mythic dimension of Arthurian chivalry is lost. Natalia Osipova in the Royal Ballet’s ‘Swan Lake’ 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z This is no fresh-forged mythic hero, but rather a young woman who’s still doubting, still equivocating about her right to seek greatness. Review | At 19, on a whim, she entered the world’s most grueling horse race — and won 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z He started a label, Orange Records, and continued to play on the streets, assuming mythic status as the years went by and the counterculture faded from memory — although not from his. David Peel, Downtown Singer and Marijuana Evangelist, Dies at 74 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z “There was something about her orphanhood that became in itself its own kind of mythic thing.” Rebecca Miller on the Mother of All Subjects: Her Father 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z Harvey Fite’s large-scale, walkable earthwork sculpture handcrafted with local bluestone is imbued with a mythic sensibility that will inspire awe in visitors of all ages. The Hudson Valley’s outdoor art parks make for an alluring pandemic destination 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z His new doc, which was based on Mr. Bowers’s memoir, “Full Service,” combines tell-all appeal with a seriously significant story of prejudice and hypocrisy on a literally mythic scale. ‘Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood’ Review: Turning Tricks in Tinseltown 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z As earlier choreographic projects such as Sea of Bones and Love and War have demonstrated, Bruce's abiding interest is in stereotypes, and in the way that mythic storylines endlessly replay themselves. Made in Heaven; Cruising, Clubbing, Fucking: An Elegy – review 2012-06-30T23:05:46Z While that summer’s upstate festival took on a mythic, much-documented aura, the Harlem Cultural Festival mostly receded from memory, victim to an early era’s biases. In ‘Summer of Soul,’ a lost history reborn to play loud 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Comparing his show to the HBO fantasy series “Game of Thrones,” Mr. Daisey said his monologues would focus on “telling stories of large mythic visions, in this case about New York City.” ‘All the Faces of the Moon’ Is Monologues on New York 2013-08-15T02:00:01Z Maybe Baja California’s reputation as the handmaiden of American vice belongs in the mythic past, with all those wispy stories of Al Capone. In Tijuana, searching for Al Capone 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z It's instructive that the two figural elements in the Stedelijk mural are a bird and a mermaid — a mythic creature from the sea. 'Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs' at MoMA follows artist's paper trail 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z There was only one painter who challenged this ageing mythic beast on his own chosen ground of eviscerated reality – and that was Francis Bacon. Picasso and Modern British Art ? review 2012-02-13T16:01:52Z The concert version of ballet music written for Martha Graham’s modern dance company tells the story of the mythic mother overtaken by jealousy. BSO, Marin Alsop usher in new year with flashy, energetic concert at Strathmore 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Her best-known ’70s works are her “Woman Rising” photographs, in which she enacts mythic rituals, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, amid natural landscapes, as shown by several examples in this exhibition. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Here the messages are more aggressively and specifically political then in the German works, which tend toward mythic generalization. The Week Ahead: Mar. 27 ? April 2 2011-03-25T14:27:11Z Any voyage that encounters one becomes a mythic journey. New books on the Alaska Ranger sinking and modern-day dangers of the sea 2010-07-28T22:12:00Z As a mythic text, the Book of Mormon had the disadvantage of arriving after the scientific revolution, exposing it to literal-minded derision from the moment of its publication. The Book of Mormon: the Great American Bible 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z And with Ledger’s death, his Oscar-winning performance and Joker persona took on a mythic quality. Perspective | ‘The Dark Knight’ and Heath Ledger’s Joker were a prophecy of our troll culture 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z She acknowledges that her husband would have rejected some of her elegiac tendencies: “you won’t let me do any wayward effusive gestures that describe how you are mythic.” Confronting Grief, Mental Illness and Marginalization, in Verse 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z That this new series – with its mythic beings, magic walls, faery wars and Night Kings – will surely be epic fantasy on a scale never before seen on TV. 'Don’t let the tail wag the dragon': what we want from the Game of Thrones prequel 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z But the imagery also exudes ancient, mythic resonances. Jim Shaw: ‘I Only Wanted You to Love Me’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z She made vivid pulp paintings named for the mythic plant, which is also invoked in the title of her Terzo Piano show, “Sanjeevani: From Here to There.” Review | In the galleries: Finding inspiration in a mythical herb 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces helped persuade film-makers like George Lucas that their job consisted of retelling mythic stories. Why we are happy to be caught in a web of movie remakes 2012-07-10T08:48:56Z Celebration comes with a sting in “Andares,” an affecting exploration of the mythic past and fraught present of Indigenous peoples in Mexico, which runs through Jan. 19. Drawing on the Past, Living in the Present, Dreaming of the Future 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Though this works remarkably well — the 19th-century features are underplayed rather than made a gimmick — it robs “Giselle” of its mythic quality. Pacific Northwest Ballet Offers a Multilayered ‘Giselle’ 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Whatever else it may be, La Ribaute is clearly a mythic and aesthetic space that suggests various things in the outside world but never engages with them directly. "Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow": Inside Anselm Kiefer's apocalyptic theme park 2011-08-11T20:02:00Z Just as important, Flint captures the mundane yet mythic horror of the case that has memorialized it in the annals of New York City crime. Still unsolved, a child-murder case inspires a gripping new novel 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z It was like looking into the face of some mythic beast; you know it will kill you if you look at it, but yet you can’t turn away. Don Juan in a wheelchair 2013-02-02T01:00:00Z “Will I ever accept that the most mythic, meaningful life might lie in the ordinary: the kingdom of details and daily reprises?” she asks in the closing pages. Review | At 19, on a whim, she entered the world’s most grueling horse race — and won 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z The Greeks, by contrast, had a “uniquely dark mythic script: all Amazons must die, no matter how attractive, no matter how heroic.” The Real Amazon Warriors 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z How his rough childhood fed his heroic fantasies: At a very, very early age, I was drawn toward these kind of mythic characters, nothing entrenched in reality at all. Sylvester Stallone on the Weakest Link in ‘Creed’: Himself 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Some of these are almost mythically tragic, particularly the final one, in which she recounts with uncanny evenness the night her cousin Karthik killed his wife, three children and mother-in-law before killing himself. Review: Bending It Like Bharatanatyam 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Watergate is that mythic scandal that keeps on giving, a moment in history so odd and hypnotic that it continues to inspire ambitious works of fiction. Television Review: Robert Redford Narrates ‘All the President’s Men Revisited’ 2013-04-18T23:13:31Z You receive the story first in its more mythic, somewhat oversimplified terms. Christopher Nolan: Dunkirk Is My Most Experimental Film Since Memento 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z “The Scarlet Gospels” assumes a prominent place in his evolving catalogue of mythic imaginings. ‘The Scarlet Gospels,’ by Clive Barker 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Coover is revered as a writer’s writer for his mythic vision and experiments with literary form. Familiar Tales Remixed, at the Hands of a Postmodern Master 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Few bands reach the mythic status of the La's. Exclusive: Hear rare tracks from the La's 2010-05-04T09:53:00Z As the historian Richard White once wrote, “The mythic West imagined by Americans has shaped the West of history just as the West of history has helped create the West Americans have imagined.” Work Songs of the Cowboy Poets 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Norway has held a mythic place in my mind for most of my life. A U.S. traveler’s urge to see Norway is all in his genes 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z A savvy celebration of a mythic urban sophistication, it is basically the sum of its epigrams and perfectly groomed star turns. Review: ‘All About Eve’ Gets the Vampire Treatment from Ivo van Hove 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z The duo has grown used to this type of mythically bad timing throughout the creation of the new album, though it’s quick to own up to its role in the chaos. A Decade Later, Salem Returns to an Even Darker World 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Also alluring here is the question of how fantasy literature can feed a girl’s mythic imagination, for better and worse. The female psyche is focus of 2 new Seattle shows 2013-06-06T20:39:46Z The Grateful Dead, on the other hand, was this mythic creature that was actually alive and more popular than ever. Critic?s Notebook: Heads Bowed in Grateful Memory 2011-03-16T22:13:38Z “Hannibal” attempts to tell some of the interstitial stories of the mythically evil man. Stunning, bloody “Hannibal” challenges our senses of beauty and revulsion 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Indeed, as "The Harder They Come" progresses, Colter's saga becomes a mythic counterpoint to Adam's slow deterioration. T.C. Boyle reflects on the beauty of fiction, the seduction of a reader 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Directed by Michael Dougherty, “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” follows the eponymous monster who faces off against his nemesis, King Ghidorah, and other ancient mythic creatures who are wreaking havoc on Earth. Box Office: 'Godzilla: King of the Monsters' debuts with mediocre... 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z With all the assumed invincibility of a mythic hero, she enters the race on a whim and fails to prepare, becoming something of a joke among the crew and her fellow competitors at first. Review | At 19, on a whim, she entered the world’s most grueling horse race — and won 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z In Martin's teeming ocean monstrous ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs confront one another like mythic dragons. Drawing with dinosaurs: in praise of the artist's impression 2011-02-17T15:29:34Z What follows is an edited sampling of excited, lovingly specific evocations of mythic performances — acting that still feels as fresh as last night. ‘The Whole Audience Was Vibrating’: Your Memorable Performances 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Evoking the Ku Klux Klan, it has a powerfully mythic resonance. Four Rewarding Shows in Philadelphia 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z This one feels more skeletal, never quite summoning the hidden iceberg heft that would render its minimalism mythic – it just feels unexplained. The Rover review – an Australian road movie that runs out of road 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z The journey is mythic in its challenges, and very bloody. Django Unchained: is its portrayal of slavery too flippant? 2013-01-10T21:00:04Z And it faces the gendered overtones of both the mythic and the modern registers of the word. In ‘Siren,’ Artists and Poets Singing From the Rocks 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z It helps that the characters are all versions of a mythic archetype. From Anthony Doerr, an Ode to Storytelling That Shows How It’s Done 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z That move has become mythic and the period of wandering has become mythic. What the world misunderstands about artist Agnes Martin and how her biographer unearthed her story 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Hell, it's impossible, and of course as they travel into this mythic landscape beyond the bounds of law, the true grit of all three of these misfits will be tested. "True Grit": A ferocious heroine in a classic western 2010-12-22T02:01:00Z A mythic figure known as the Centaur is half-buried on the stage, visible only from the torso up. Fable of grief has clipped wings at Theater J 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Matthew Monahan’s “Nation Builder,” a gnarly sculpture of a man elevated on a pedestal of two smooth Cubist boxes has a similarly mythic aura. Art Review: Pondering Sculpture Under the Trees 2010-08-26T20:00:00Z The show offers a kind of mythic vision of New York that sounds romantic. When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z Yet there also are mythic elements to the works in the artist’s show at Transformer. Review | In the galleries: At Strathmore, artists illuminate the darkness 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z And, since nearly all of the millions of people who have read the book read it in the light of an even greater quest, the hero and his story are elevated to mythic levels. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z Combining historical sweep with cerebral humor, meticulous craftsmanship and an ability to mix and match tones and styles effortlessly — jazzy, erotic, mythic, tragic — he made 1980s hipster versions of big Hollywood studio productions. Television Review: ‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’ Has Its Premiere on HBO 2012-05-27T22:40:54Z Nick Clegg's mythic triumph is a construct, a papier-mache of TV cathode rays, iPhone screen pixels and newspaper comment. What the Robert Redford film The Candidate teaches us about Nick Clegg 2010-04-21T09:53:00Z He describes how Brown’s self-dramatizing performance during his trial turned him into the inspiring popular martyr whose soul would mythically go marching on. John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: A Study in Contrasts 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Parks uses Homer’s “The Odyssey” as a mythic template for her saga. Taper's 2016 season features Pulitzer winner and 3-hour Civil War epic by Suzan-Lori Parks 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z We can’t rely on the old mythic structures anymore, but there will be a new one built. Donovan to Enter Songwriters Hall of Fame 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z This was cotton-farming country, northeast of Dallas, and there was nothing mythic about it. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Bringing ‘Giant’ to the Big Screen 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z Jan Morris was one woman who “had it all,” as the old Helen Gurley Brown guide so mythically proposed — but the cost to other people is left somewhere in the mist. For Jan Morris, Staying in One Place Was Never an Option 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Logan said that Sting’s orientation “toward the mythic and universal, in terms of what hands-on work and relations in the family mean, really led the way.” Sting and Jimmy Nail on the Musical ‘The Last Ship’ 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Over a series of paintings in circular frames, a narrator tells of the mythic Chinese character Pan Jinlian, an adulteress whose name is still invoked in modern China to chastise an “indecent” woman. Review: ‘I Am Not Madame Bovary’ Takes Man Trouble to New Levels 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Rooted in contemporary cityscapes and mythic pasts, with affects ranging from melancholy optimism to humor to horror, this collection is a sensuous, polyphonic feast. Power and Passage: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z That’s how mythic he is: his character is carved out in the dust cloud left by his actions. The Rover review – an Australian road movie that runs out of road 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z In between is this mythic tale, dramatized by 16 actors in 25 songs, of two black women in petticoats and holsters, portrayed by Solea Pfeiffer and Emmy Raver-Lampman. Perspective | People said her great-great-aunts posed as white and robbed banks. So she wrote a musical about them. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z The story of the ship and its passengers has long since taken on mythic proportions and has been committed to film many times. The best Titanic film isn't "Titanic" 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Her dancers move more like everyday people than like mythic figures, and they also speak, whether reciting stage directions or fragmented dialogue. Review: Martha Graham Dance Company Displays Unorthodox Humor 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z The bleak, mythic vistas of the dramatist Sam Shepard and the novelist Cormac McCarthy come to mind, as well as films by Peckinpah and Ford. Review: Lost and Found in a Steve Earle Soundscape in ‘Samara’ 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Castorf's unifying theme, hardly a revelatory insight, is that oil is today's equivalent of Wagner's mythic gold – source of power, wealth and destruction. Das Rheingold/Die Walküre – review 2013-07-28T15:59:00Z A dying figure, Agni, is surrounded by the countenances of mythic beings, including Mozart, Lewis Carroll, a witch, the Queen of the Night, Copernicus, Tristan and Isolde. Worlds meet and worlds beyond at Ojai Music Festival 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z The Flexner report quickly achieved mythic status for catalyzing the reform of medical education in the United States, but its methods and conclusions, particularly concerning irregulars, do raise questions. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z The novel, a mythic tale set roughly 1,500 years ago in a wild, fantastical England populated by ogres, pixies, knights and dragons, was unlike anything he’d ever written. For Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘The Buried Giant’ Is a Departure 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The tethers of punctuation disappear as the memory lifts into the lyrical and mythic, gliding into another register. Rereading: Up in the Old Hotel, by Joseph Mitchell 2012-06-22T21:55:18Z Young British actor George MacKay is making a splash at Cannes - literally, amid the weekend's torrential downpours - with his compelling central performance in mythic maritime drama "For Those In Peril." Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival 2013-05-19T14:15:12Z In Lindo’s intense performance, “Da 5 Bloods” turns almost mythic in its deconstruction of African American history in U.S. combat and in war films. Delroy Lindo on his titanic performance in ‘Da 5 Bloods’ 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z What draws you to those mythic figures, and how do those stories enhance what you are trying to explore and communicate through your poetry? ‘I Was Unprepared’: Louise Glück on Poetry, Aging and a Surprise Nobel Prize 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z His father’s story is mythic in their family: Ruilin Yang grew up in a straw and mud hut in an arid, rural part of China, just south of Mongolia, with illiterate parents, according to Bowen. Bowen Yang of ‘S.N.L.’ Is a Smash. And a Mensch. 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z This free-associating, chalk-drawing animation piece is an ever-changing meditation on genetic manipulation, hybrid species, and life and artificial life from the microscopic to the mythic. Local Sightings Film Festival highlights 2011-09-27T00:03:06Z She seems too lightweight to inspire devotion even in a stalker, but when she slips into her TV persona, a soldier in a gold breastplate and a micro-mini, she suddenly takes on a mythic grandeur. When superstar and superfan collide: It's 'Future Thinking' at South Coast Rep 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z They clearly weren’t thinking “mythic” at the time. ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ at 25: Memories of Memories 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z While their titles and forms gesture to mythic creatures such as the Minotaur and Cyclops, his works have more of a Frankenstein's monster quality. Artist of the week 120: Thomas Houseago 2011-01-05T12:52:15Z That’s the fictional part, in which the film’s real-life orphans play warriors of the spirit on a mythic journey in the natural world. Movie Review: Cambodian Orphans Star in ‘Still I Strive’ 2014-05-09T01:04:31Z He speaks of its “sacred and mythic dimensions.” Books of The Times: ?Extra Virginity? by Tom Mueller; a Word on Olive Oil - Review 2011-12-07T21:50:14Z Made of local Oaxaca clay, the mythic, partly painted figurine by Mexican sculptor Manuel David Reyes Ramirez looks as if could have been made in pre-Columbian times. Review | In the galleries: Artists pair up to create a third identity, or when 1+1 equals one. 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z This Gauguin is a frenzied multimedia experimenter whose deepest need was not a mythic purity in the South Seas, but an artistic language no one had yet spoken. Gauguin: It’s Not Just Genius vs. Monster 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z That invisibility lends the story its mythic dimension. A Wondrous Remake of “Pete’s Dragon” 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z These guys try things the mythic private eye would get away with. Shane Black Narrates a Scene From ‘The Nice Guys’ 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Set in 1996, "Everest" chronicles a doomed set of rival expeditions on the mythic mountain that claimed the lives of eight climbers during a massive blizzard. Venice taps 'Everest' to open festival as hopes climb 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z As my colleague Richard Brody has written, the movie’s drama and characters have been streamlined so as to reveal their “underlying mythic power.” What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z This shape-shifting female presence is one that the man vows to pursue for the rest of his days — the natural and supernatural provisionally resolving themselves in the mythic. Review: 'The River,' with Hugh Jackman, is a wisp of a fish tale 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z The place evoked by Evans’s photography was a mythic realm, a ghost world. Art Review: Walker Evans’s ‘American Photographs,’ at MoMA 2013-07-18T20:50:03Z The nearly unornamented way she carries melodies, shading some words with the tiniest bit of a quaver, comes across as both pensive and determined, and it lets her find mythic resonances behind everyday details. Rosanne Cash Takes the Long View on ‘She Remembers Everything’ 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Kelley merged these two peculiarities in his exquisite sculptural iterations of the mythic city. Mike Kelley's Superman moment: 'Kandors' at Hauser & Wirth 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z The concert will start with “Samesoul Maker,” a composition for guitar and three voices, imagining the role of a father in birthing and rearing a mythic planet, Or’gen. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z To explore the mythic landscape of “Game of Thrones” and to glimpse the future — slick museums and visitor centers, attractions that bring new life to the region’s shipbuilding achievements. Following ‘Game of Thrones’ to Belfast and Beyond 2013-07-05T17:34:29Z But you don’t need a Ph.D. in Spaghetti Western Studies to detect the mythic and pop-cultural influences on this fever-dream farrago. Django Unchained: Tarantino Frees the Slaves 2012-12-12T16:04:56Z What I think happens is that there is a critical reprimand for choosing mythic elements and allegorical elements in American theater. Why Thornton Wilder Matters in the Trump Era 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z It’s something you can do in the theater — go into this absolutely dreamlike mythic place, out of time, between reality and dream world. A Broadway Superlative for All the Wrong Reasons 2011-03-13T23:28:26Z Others, like those in a group of drawings mixing images of women and trees, play on more timeless, mythic associations. Art Review: 5 Artists in ‘Energy That Is All Around: Mission School’ 2014-04-24T21:50:22Z Raven Halfmoon, originally from Oklahoma, draws on American Indian lore for the show’s most mythic piece: a black wolf with human hands protruding from its mouth. Review | In the galleries: The American character, as molded by 11 female artists 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z An assemblage that Bell brought from his studio, inspired by Dante’s “Inferno” and Rome’s mythic history, combines plastic skulls, a wolf’s head and video of Bell’s bygone dog. Review | In the galleries: From artist Timothy Johnson, a heady exhibition 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Yet they also pack enough mythic content to befit some sort of temple. Review | In the galleries: Myths and respite at the American University museum 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z When Lord Byron made his famous swim across the Hellespont — from the Black Sea to the Aegean, in imitation of the mythic Leander swimming to his lover, Hero — he was wearing trousers. | Float, Memory 2014-05-06T13:00:33Z She was praised for her style, which sometimes contained a mythic quality, incorporating multiple voices and story lines and exploring the legacy of slavery in incandescent prose. ‘She Saved Us’: Mourners Pay Tribute to Toni Morrison 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Here again, Hopper is a supporting player apparently idolising a mythic figure. Uneasy Rider 2010-05-30T17:40:00Z But it is also, more unusually, a young woman’s reckoning with an institution whose mythic reputation belies unsavory secrets. New Book Returns to an Irresistible Theme: the Harvard Murder 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Sometimes the dancing onscreen mirrors the action onstage, other times not, such as when Freeland and Rafailedes, excellent as the mythic leads, leave the stage and reappear larger than life in the video. In Benjamin Millepied's L.A. Dance Project program, the name to remember is Noé Soulier 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Nietzsche's heroes were Aeschylus and Sophocles, whose characters are mythic beings. Ragnar?k: the doom of the gods 2011-08-05T21:55:10Z "The West is a mythic space, and there's a lot of room on the range," she added. Jane Campion’s "petty" acceptance speech highlights the issues with insidious white feminism 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z It’s also in this opening chapter that Dimaline alludes to the danger of the mythic creature known as “the rogarou,” “the threat from a hundred stories told by those old enough to remember the tales.” A Métis Woman’s Husband Disappeared — or Did He? 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z But you want the mythic scope of it to still feel big. The Emails Behind the Opera ‘Eurydice’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z This was once the promise of “the country,” the mundane merging with the mythic, a Forest of Arden bristling to life. The Failed Dream of the Easy Commute 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Somehow he fought his way up from unpromising beginnings to an almost mythic status. ‘Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel,’ by Annie Cohen-Solal 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z But the creators imparted an imaginative, even mythic dimension to their characters’ meditations. Still Resonating From the Great Wall 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z There is a mythic component to the sobering and revealing mirror her circumstances now hold up to our culture. The Cruel Paradox of Linda Evangelista’s Fate 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z This transgression against the dead — or the delusion of such — fills the story with a mythic affliction that recalls the old sailor’s in Samuel Coleridge’s epic poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” In the Trenches of World War I, a Bloody Ritual Fueled by Guilt 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z As the play muses on the allure of Hollywood and the mythic idea of the West, James Whalen contributes a valuable supporting turn as the unscrupulous movie producer Saul. Two plays deal with betrayal with mixed results 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z In “Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds,” Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer ponder the mythic, spiritual gravitational pull of meteors and comets on humanity — and on Herzog, himself. New this week: ‘I Am Greta,’ Chris Stapleton & CMA Awards 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Thinking in terms of mythic labyrinths, a maze can not only challenge, but transform. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 4: Truth and Consequences 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z The Langley performing venue is presenting Zimmerman's contemporary take on such mythic figures as Orpheus and Eurydice, and Pandora and Persephone, on a set containing a reflecting pool of some 4,300 gallons of water. On stage: myths by the pool, and Chekhov's 'The Wood Demon' 2011-06-09T20:16:19Z However, her treatment of the trial is extraordinary just because it isn't rhetorical: despite that backdrop, the space she creates is real and not mythic. Laura Knight: The unashamed illustrator 2013-07-06T08:01:40Z “Moths are so diverse,” Ms. Matyas said, “and many of them come out at night, so they’re mythic in a way.” Spare Times for Children for July 24-30 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The composition is so powerful that its mythic force is all you register at first. Primal meets parody in Tim Roda photo show at Greg Kucera 2012-03-01T20:58:03Z Shadowing the plan mythically, and providing a kind of psychological alibi, is the tale of the wife's great-grandmother, who killed herself a century before. What's wrong with Hitchcock's women 2010-10-21T20:30:00Z Kahn’s mythic stature in American architecture is matched only by that of by Frank Lloyd Wright; and even Wright is less likely to be spoken of with such reverence. Architecture Review: Renzo Piano to Unveil Addition to Kahn?s Kimbell Museum 2010-05-26T22:53:00Z Are you in any way surprised by the mythic status of Ron Swanson? ArtsBeat: Amy Poehler on the Return (Finally) of 'Parks and Recreation' 2011-01-20T18:55:28Z Queen Margaret of Anjou is the tale’s voice of protest, hurling curses near the top of the play, and Lizan Mitchell delivers the warnings with mythic fervor. Review | There will be blood in the STC’s gross-out ‘Richard the Third’ 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z At 79 years old, he is now something of a mythic figure on the more debauched end of the unofficial Great American Songbook. Pop & Rock Listings for Oct. 24-30 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z She is also a mythic figure in the American imagination, an image she fought to control over the course of her life. Own the Recipes of Georgia O’Keeffe 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z There is, after all, something mythic about the idea of an advanced civilization perishing overnight in some single vast cataclysm. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z How we remember a stage interpretation that we can never see again — at least not in exactly the same way — is what makes such acting mythic. The Mythic Performances That Are Keeping Me Company 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Among them, there were lots of references to some mythic “old country.” The Score: A Pitch for New Music 2011-05-11T22:38:37Z The events acquired a mythic aura even as they were unfolding; miracle-stories circulating within hours of the attacks, conspiracy theories springing up days later. The Blind Man's Garden by Nadeem Aslam – review 2013-01-31T07:01:01Z At all three, Mr. McNally obsessed over the next while romanticizing a mythic past that maybe once was. Keith McNally Stirs the Pot 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z Where a creature has inspired no particularly important fancies, it may nonetheless merit a short entry on the mythic resonance of its name and/or an enthusiastic description. Bugs Britannica by Peter Marren, edited by Richard Mabey 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z He soon met producer Rick Rubin, though, and wrote a coda to his career that gave his life something of a mythic quality. New Johnny Cash album to be released next spring 2013-12-10T14:35:18Z What you get in Danny Boyle's production and Nick Dear's adaptation of Mary Shelley's mythic fable, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating as Victor Frankenstein and the Creature, is neither shlock nor satire. Frankenstein - review 2011-02-24T00:46:25Z After his death at the age of 23, it was left to others to amplify his mythic status. This week's new exhibitions 2011-04-01T23:06:02Z The Christie’s statue depicts a character that antiquities experts say sat on a pedestal only a few feet from the Sotheby’s statue, a far larger sculpture representing a mythic Hindu warrior known as Duryodhana. Christie’s to Return Cambodian Statue 2014-05-06T21:53:34Z The result is a scene that turns a very simple experience into something absolutely mythic: a pagan rite of cleansing and renewal. Dragonsong: The Unforgettable Anne McCaffrey 2011-11-30T16:30:35Z The locations may be exemplars of Americana — Las Vegas, Monument Valley and don’t forget the Motor City — but they’re presented in a mode that’s far from mythic. In the galleries: Finding new ways to take in the natural world 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z For Zimny's film to have actually intensified the mythic qualities of one of rock's most celebrated buddy acts is testimony to its cutting edge. Bruce Springsteen: 'People thought we were gone. Finished' 2010-09-23T20:30:00Z He specialized in eerie situations with powerful mythic overtones. George Tooker, Painter Capturing Modern Anxieties, Dies at 90 2011-03-29T20:32:21Z Throughout the book, you identify these concepts that are almost mythic about Florida — hurricanes, crocodiles, the Confederacy, Christianity. "Florida hasn't always been the weird state": Florida Man pens book reframing the Sunshine State 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z There is also in this music a seeming preoccupation with the past — the analogue sound world near past and the mythic past — as well as an obsession with the digital present. With Jóhann Jóhannssson and Bedroom Community, L.A. Phil tries to break through the Icelandic cliches 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Just as common, though, are works that invoke history, whether actual or mythic. Review | In the galleries: Multiple works by Black artists create a vision of authority 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Every movie fan knows that Mr. Jackson didn’t exactly invent that multifaceted word, but in its modern phraseology, he is nonetheless something of a mythic figure. Review: ‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard,’ With Samuel L. Jackson 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z “Kill all the men and boys, impregnate the women,” thinks Briseis, linking her unwanted pregnancy in a mythic time to present-day ethnic cleansing: “They meant to erase an entire people.” Review | Pat Barker’s ‘The Women of Troy’ continues her brilliant reassessment of the Trojan War 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Set in London, the novel takes on the torments of creativity and the music business and “deals with mythic and operatic themes including a maze, divine madness, and long-lost children.” Pete Townshend novel, ‘The Age of Anxiety,’ out in November 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z They are by turns mythically resonant, laugh-out-loud funny and shockingly blasphemous. Jim Shaw at the New Museum: A Kaleidoscope of Giddy Delirium 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z He comes across as a shrewd, well-meaning parvenu who savors the expensive, tacky trappings of his success but who has no mythic stature whatsoever. Movie Review: ‘The Look of Love’ Stars Steve Coogan as a Sex Impresario 2013-07-04T20:55:14Z “For me it’s always been kind of mythic, and it just seemed like a great time to reinstall it,” she said. Back at the Whitney, Tinkering With Perception 2013-06-16T21:39:08Z She has also found her own black Elysian Fields — mythic and real, delusional and definitive — where DuBoisian figures lecture, books are plenty, and love is possible. Colson Whitehead's 'The Underground Railroad' is timely, necessary and shattering 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Instead they set the stage for a rowdy party where mythic figures and folk heroes are revived to get drunk, play music and flirt. Artist of the week 148: Ryan Mosley 2011-07-28T11:11:44Z But Gary is building the cabin for selfish reasons, and when he kicks back and imagines the almost mythic isolation he'll enjoy there, Irene appears nowhere in his vision. 'Caribou Island': portrait of a failing marriage in the forbidding vastness of the 49th state 2011-01-12T22:49:03Z The “Ring” and its mythically based libretto, written by Wagner in the middle of the 19th century and then put to music over the next quarter century, is a fruitful mine of interpretation. ArtsBeat: A Place to Talk About the "Ring" by Wagner at the Metropolitan Opera 2012-04-06T17:04:47Z Both books feature Okri’s characteristic cosmic and mythic lens, and carry an existential weight in tune with the present moment. It Took Nearly 30 Years. Is America Ready for Ben Okri Now? 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z A large part of the exhibition will be installations by mythic outlaws like the subway painter and “Wild Style” star Lee Quiñones and Chaz Bojórquez, whose style draws from cholo gang graffiti and Asian calligraphy. T Magazine: Tag He's It 2011-03-11T15:00:32Z Sheenspeak could be considered a demented combination of William S. Burroughs' beat musings and those Chuck Norris jokes in which the '80s action star is inflated to mythic proportions. Some see poetry in Charlie Sheen's `Adonis DNA' 2011-03-03T22:50:11Z But the attraction to Los Angeles is as much mythic as it is practical. Daft Punk Gets Human With a New Album 2013-05-15T12:00:18Z Ms. Benglis is something of a mythic character, as many female artists of the 1960s and early ’70s are by now. Art Review: Artful Commentary, Oozing From the Walls 2011-02-17T21:27:55Z Originally attached to a whole, armor-clad warrior, this object does more than just symbolize a mythic character. Spellbinding Treasures From Japan’s Kamakura Period at Asia Society 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Cider’s wild edge, with flavors and aromas that suggest mythic, old-time fruit. Cider Moves Beyond the Apple 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Lake was instrumental in bringing classical influences, epic length, mythic scope and 1970s excess into rock-and-roll, winning millions of fans before punk swept in and spoiled the party. Greg Lake, who co-founded rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer, dies at 69 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The exhibit includes two vessels decorated with images from that mythic battle. In Tampa, the World of Poseidon 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Listening to the new collection, I appreciated the opportunity to listen to a new set of music from these mythic sessions — without the ring of familiarity but, in many cases, the same level of catchiness. ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ at 25: Memories of Memories 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Gil’s son is left to try to untangle how the madness intertwines with the tortured history of his mythic and mysteriously vanished father. Review | A child’s murder sets off a sprawling tale of politics, war and family 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Shorter’s score suffused the opera with a kind of wild, mythic weather. Review | ‘. . . (Iphigenia)’ is an opera in the form of a question 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z When this production, which used imagery of the Industrial Revolution to contextualize Wagner’s mythic tale, was introduced in 1976 for the centennial of the “Ring,” Mr. Chéreau’s staging struck many as brashly modern and outrageous. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z His music is strong, craggy, complex, mythic and modern at the same time, harshly hard to follow and just as harshly hard to forget. Europe concert diary: Harrison Birtwistle at the Proms 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Iron and Wine’s first albums, beginning in 2002, were quiet, homegrown productions, with string-band instruments cradling Mr. Beam’s thoughtful tenor voice and lyrics that entwine the intimate, the apocalyptic and the mythic. Music Review: Bells and Whistles Turn Up the Volume 2011-01-30T22:55:08Z For them, not only was a proper English breakfast "the mark of a gentleman", but it was "the national dish of a mythic and indivisible England". The English Breakfast by Kaori O'Connor – review 2013-07-05T16:59:00Z However, his stark framing grants the scene a mythic, muscular force, illuminating the peculiar and self-sacrificing dedication required to make any tradition last. A Festival Full of Exploding Sledgehammers 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z For most people, the pan and a mythic version of a certain bygone Caribbean lifestyle are inseparable. In Victor Provost’s hands, the steel pan becomes a mesmerizing ride 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Kicking off a story with an unsympathetic character is tough; kicking off a story with three unsympathetic characters requires almost mythic power to succeed. ‘At the Water’s Edge,’ by Sara Gruen 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z The prose is gorgeous, and the specificity of place is an enjoyable counterpoint to the mythic vastness of a story about traveling to the underworld. The Best New Fantasy Novels 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z If you’ve read that book, you surely remain haunted by its mythic powers. Lady Macbeth in Appalachia, and Other Tales by an American Master 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z We now have what we originally hoped for, which is a kind of mythic interpretation of his life and his evolution into an activist. An Opera About Harvey Milk Finally Finds Itself 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Rather, bodies turn from black to blue, as people move from the real world into mythic realms. 5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z That's because the idea of the hero as orphan is so mythically powerful. Chris Weitz talks about his YA novel, 'The Young World' 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z A boat prow with a depiction of a half-human bird of prey astride a mythic serpent. Netscape Founder Gives Up $35 Million in Art Said to Be Stolen 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z For all the melodrama, banality and silliness, it evokes a deeply mythic dimension of film to which millions are drawn as if under hypnotic command. Last Chance: Art Made Up of Movies Tells a Story All Its Own 2011-01-06T23:16:31Z Yet “The Bear” shares with its predecessors a preoccupation with loss and endurance, themes explored here in a more mythic style still firmly grounded in physical reality. Review | Andrew Krivak’s ‘The Bear’ takes a gentler approach to post-apocalyptic fiction 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z So rather than be human, Cave went for mythic. Nowhere Man: Nick Cave, 20,000 Days on Earth and the Nature of the Unknowable Man 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The movie traces the mythic origins of the worst of modern cable news — the mindless jingoism, the split-screen shouting, the cluttered graphics, the breathless coverage of car chases and celebrity nonsense — to Ron’s initiative. Movie Review: ‘Anchorman 2,’ Starring Will Ferrell and Steve Carell 2013-12-17T21:57:43Z In one published image, Mao and Deng Xiaoping shake hands in front of a red curtain, giving the impression of mythic ritual. Art Review: ?New Photography 2011? Features 6 Artists at MoMA - Review 2011-10-14T05:00:49Z Mars, especially among the planets, has taken the place of the mythic island: of Ultima Thule. Abstract and affecting, the new Mars pictures are a confrontation with the sublime | Sam Leith 2010-03-21T22:30:00Z Singing about the personal, the historical or the mythic, Ms. Consoli was always vividly impassioned. Music Review: Carmen Consoli Sings of Past and Present 2010-06-18T22:04:00Z By then, though, it had taken on mythic status. Roll Up! "Magical Mystery Tour" gets U.S. TV debut 2012-12-14T19:14:05Z The story turns from the mythic — visions and healing, thousands of followers, vaqueros and mestizos — to the day-to-day. Urrea's 'Queen of America': Teresita returns 2011-12-02T18:38:04Z “It was really like a jolt of adrenaline — it’s such a mythic skyline,” he said. Elvis Costello’s New York Soul 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z "In the Land of the Dead, Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow" conjures a mythic narrative inspired by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that tore open the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. An early look in the Broad museum reveals a show that doesn't quite gel 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z From their very first volleys, Cat and Scalia face off like mythic foes. Drama about Antonin Scalia plays out like 'Beauty and the Beast' 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z “They feel so mythic,” says playwright and winner Samuel Hunter. MacArthur Foundation surprises 21 fellows with 2014 ‘genius’ grants and $625,000 Her array of stylists refer to themselves as “team unicorn”, as though they are administering to the needs of some mythic beast. Elle Fanning: ‘It’s a job, but it’s also about dressing up and pretending’ 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z His brand of mythic realism lent an irresistible luster to “The Four Wise Men,” a retelling of the biblical tale of the Three Magi. Michel Tournier, French Novelist Who Fused Myth and Philosophy, Dies at 91 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Of course, it was precisely how Douglas aged so gracefully that magnified his mythic persona. Kirk Douglas was a bona fide movie star. Do they even make those anymore? 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Sundeen frames this turning point in mythic terms, "Daniel ... died as a modern man driving his car off a cliff, and was reborn as an eternal man — without money or possessions." 'The Man Who Quit Money': Foreswearing the almighty dollar 2012-03-01T00:12:03Z Yet even then a nostalgia for a mythic Wild West was developing. | 'The Great Divide': Frontier Woman?s Desperate Proposition 2011-03-13T22:40:38Z In this fast-churning, seemingly Westernizing, increasingly English-speaking nation, the mythic past is also very much present. Film: India?s Epic Poems, Resonating in Modern Lives 2010-07-04T05:11:00Z As you suggest, they strike mythic, archetypal chords, and cater to a persistent hunger for large-scale, accessible narratives of good and evil. ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ and the Modern Comic Book Movie 2012-06-27T16:13:49Z The former champions wryly and modestly narrate their own story in new interviews, while the movie uses chic archival footage to set up a mythic reconsideration of their triumphs. ‘The Witches of the Orient’ Review: Symphony of a Sports Team 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Tokyo Drifter regards the mythic gangster Tetsu’s attempt to leave the gangster lifestyle and go legit, only to be stymied by various rivals and opportunists. Burning desire: John Wick and the undying appeal of the revenge thriller 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z “The Beatles were icons, these four mythic guys,” Jackson said. How Peter Jackson shifted the dour context of ‘Let It Be’ into a fuller, more human ‘Get Back’ 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z If there's a war, then "Willie Gillis" – aka Robert Buck – became a mythically quizzical hero, clutching food parcels, snoozing on leave or sending the same picture of himself to irate pretty girls. The norms of Norman Rockwell 2011-01-30T22:00:03Z Salt Horse's "Titan Arum": Choreographers Beth Graczyk and Corrie Befort's latest project explores "mythic powers ... whose flux determines our ability to rise or fall." You can watch dance this weekend til you drop 2011-05-10T00:53:04Z It is inhabited by beautifully lit undergraduates and mythic types such as pixie-ish Albert, the "white-haired, rosy-cheeked porter" "beaming" from his lodge. The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen – review 2013-07-20T08:00:12Z Hegarty has always been drawn to voices that self-consciously channel female mythic power. Antony Hegarty: 'We need more oestrogen-based thinking' 2012-05-19T23:04:35Z Joseph Campbell said that “myths are public dreams,” and you could say that the movie is our contemporary mythic form. Disaster Films Plague the Box Office 2013-07-19T18:26:49Z For those committed to turning them into mythic heroes, this reality seems unbearable. Wall Street should hate itself 2012-11-13T22:02:00Z The addition of mythic beasts, of giants and sorcerers and sirens signing sailors to their doom, encourages fleeting feelings of awe. “Disenchantment,” Reviewed: Matt Groening Makes the Most of Medieval Slapstick Pestilence 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z There is a fierce, ecstatic quality to Mr. Johnson’s strongest work that lends his characters and their stories an epic, almost mythic dimension, in the best American tradition of Melville and Whitman. Denis Johnson’s Poetic Visions of a Fallen World 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z “Gone With the Wind” is one of the mythic lightning strikes of American cultural history. The Long Battle Over ‘Gone With the Wind’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z It was in that decade that the French Riviera became the image of sultry decadence, a mythic status it would keep through the 20th century until global resorts offered still steamier thrills. Picasso and beach culture: a cocktail of sand and sensuality 2011-08-18T14:36:21Z Ranchers and seekers of the “mythic West” travel each year to a small Nevada city to practice a tradition born of labor and regional identity. Work Songs of the Cowboy Poets 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Here was a restless, contortionist angel, more mythic than mystical. ‘How Like an Angel’ Blends Music and Acrobats 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Carson, Leno, and Letterman were these mythic creatures—like schoolteachers spotted in the grocery aisle, they appeared shockingly out of place away from their familiar sets. A Garry Shandling Photograph That Closes the Book on a Late-Night Era 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z “Little House on the Prairie” assumes a mythic status among some of its characters. Elizabeth Strout’s Lovely New Novel Is a Requiem for Small-Town Pain 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z In the main, Cal’s speeches seem contrived to push the story into another storytelling register, away from grounded psychological realism and into something approaching the mythic. ‘Montana Story’ Review: A Domestic Drama in Big Sky Country 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Like everything Prince does, it felt strangely mythic. Prince Announces His Memoir, Funkily 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z Their subject is extremely familiar — the love of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera — but the treatment is less biographical and more mythic. In San Francisco, a Week of Destination Opera 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z In his poetry Hughes was torn between the mythic “vision” of Coleridge and the elegiac “authenticity” of Wordsworth. Prince of poetry 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z His status as a mythic figure for rock fans has never waned. 50 years after his death, fans honor Jim Morrison in Paris 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z “It’s so far away — you don’t see pictures of these people, there’s no writing about them, there’s no internet. So they’re mythic, and incredible.” Hamish Kilgour, Whose New Zealand Cult Band Had Reach, Dies at 65 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Even the early Op stories here give readers the chance to walk around the mythic San Francisco that Hammett created — a place of fog and furnished apartments, sinister Nob Hill mansions and Chinatown gambling dens. The nameless detective who launched Dashiell Hammett’s career 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z This logic rests on the illusion that racism is mythically rare, that “racist” is a dangerous slur rather than a common condition. Trump, the Squad, and the “Standard Definition” of Racism 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z This novel is epic in every sense of that word: mythic, sweeping, over the top, staggeringly complex. Phil Klay’s 'Redeployment,' Gary Shteyngart’s Memoir and More 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Back then curators Belle And Sebastian enjoyed a kind of mythic power, since softened by time into something a little cosier, but they can still programme an excellent show. This week's new live music 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z In the mythic narrative that has come to surround the artist, the filming represents the beginning of the end. Marilyn Minter's 'Pretty/Dirty' show allures and repulses all at the same time 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Greek mythology seems like a perfect springboard for a Disney movie, given the amount of them that trade on the basic iconographies of the mythic. Ranking: The Disney Renaissance From Worst to Best 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Many of them, in fact, are effectively entrepreneurs, but have little of the regard of the lavishly paid, mythically potent CEO. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z The Deadwood project, never far from the mud but always mythic in its scope, thus finished on a sombre downswing. How Deadwood went from eye-popping TV to a parade of old hams 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z But these next projects — more like the Grant sculpture, and less like the Lincoln or Vietnam memorials — eschewed any reach for a mythic plane. Perspective | A wave of war memorials is coming to D.C. Are we all at peace with that? 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Apparently it all relates back to some mythic incident in the festival's distant past when a viewer blundered late into the darkened auditorium and called for his friend Raoul. Cannes film festival diary: no joy in Godard 2010-05-19T09:22:00Z Inevitably, though, he continues to look back on his days as part of one of America’s most mythic musical communities. William Bell, a Stax Records Team Player, Upholds and Extends 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Yet the specifics of the tale matter less than its mythic presentation. Review: ‘My Father Die,’ Full of Testosterone and Misogyny 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Fascist leaders offered their followers the prospect of an enhanced, mythic identity — a dream of youth and beauty, the same attributes promised by high fashion. Op-Ed Contributor: High Fascism 2011-03-07T06:48:00Z The Cabiri, a local dance troupe with a specialty in aerial work, navigates new mythic territory with their latest production, "Carpathian Dawn." The Cabiri navigates new territory in Auburn show 2010-04-22T22:48:00Z For all her skill at handling large ensembles, Saariaho’s solos — including this set of miniatures for cello — have a special focus and freedom, a human rather than mythic scale. Kaija Saariaho: 11 Essential Works 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z For all the effort, "M/M/C" just doesn't yield enough clarity or mythic resonance to make the three-hour-plus epic compelling. Myth and mirth take the stage at Oregon Shakespeare fest 2012-07-19T21:29:02Z One of the reasons I wanted to write about West Texas is that is, to me, the mythic Texas, the Wild West, the most rough-hewn, pristine part of Texas. Stefan Merrill Block on his new novel 'Oliver Loving,' which follows the fallout of a tragedy in a small West Texas town 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z To be sure, Smith's willingness to go to any lengths to lift herself out of poverty and her lifelong obsession with publicity have a lurid quality that seems almost mythic. Anna Nicole, the opera: She aims to sleaze 2011-02-18T01:35:12Z A movie fanatic, Spielberg is himself a master of the graft—especially grafting the mythic memory of the cinema onto a child-like sensibility formed by television. The Pre-Fab “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z There’s a processional, almost mythic feeling, as if they all were on a pilgrimage and that distant burst of light mystically beckoned them to an otherworldly end. Watteau’s Peacefully Bittersweet War Scenes 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z This book subtly draws upon the mythic power France once held for Black Americans. Viet Thanh Nguyen Packs Plenty of Action and Outrage Into ‘The Committed’ 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z The shepherds are not simply ghostly or mythic in stanza four: their association with the remote "high roads" of "kings and saints" is also a function of their work. Poem of the week: Shepherds by Sasha Dugdale 2013-01-14T10:31:49Z Nick, meanwhile, finds himself under the auspices of Alejandro, a mythic leader who acts as healer and executioner and whose followers believe themselves to be chosen to “outlast death.” ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 9: Lessons to Be Learned 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Now, for his latest production, he tackles more strange, dark and hallucinatory material, inspired by the mythic 16th-century Scotsman Sawney Bean. This week's new dance: Edinburgh special 2011-08-12T23:09:17Z For a Canadian with a green card, Mr. Sutherland is oddly smitten with the mythic American West. Kiefer Sutherland Returns. This Time the Oval Office Is His. 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z The key to the mythic mode, asserts Ball, is ambivalence. Perspective | The Loch Ness monster may not exist, but such mythical beasts fascinate for good reason 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z She is described as part saint, part mythic figure, with the remoteness of one and the almost unhuman force of the other. Elena Ferrante’s ‘Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay’ 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Rob: He created his own mythology with some legitimately mythic events and coincidences; the acetate – it was a miracle that the mastering made it sound as good as it does. Numero Group: the crate-digging record label's top 10 2013-06-13T16:05:50Z Because “Star Wars” is so self-consciously mythic, “Solo” is especially vulnerable to the “simulacra of simulacra” problem. The Growing Emptiness of the Star Wars Universe 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Ansel Adams, with his grand views of the mythic American West, was a “slick, self-satisfied” Californian whose photographs were merely of “sticks and rocks.” Berenice Abbott: She Was a Camera 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Producers, and soon the public, believed he could make or kill a show, investing him with huge mythic juju. Ben Brantley on Shutting the Stage Door Behind Him 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The book's mythic status should not distract us from the raw originality of the work. EP Thompson: the unconventional historian 2013-03-06T15:05:11Z Two of the best places to contemplate the country’s mythic past — Glastonbury and Wells — are in southwest England. England’s legendary towns of Glastonbury and Wells are peaceful, picturesque 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Katharine Graham was a mythic, almost unknowable figure for me growing up outside Washington, D.C. Katie Couric Likes Books on Paper, and Articles Onscreen 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z It's that Nordic Viking mythic guy who has played the role of king, warrior, soldier and mercenary, and who has bedded more women than anyone, nearing the last cycle of his life. Is Schwarzenegger ready to make a Last Stand as Conan the Barbarian? 2013-01-18T16:31:18Z He began by writing about later generations, with Eli’s story just a mythic part of their memories. Books of The Times: ‘The Son,’ a Novel by Philipp Meyer 2013-06-19T21:01:43Z That mythic power contrasts sharply with what precedes it in this collection, all pieces that more accurately justify the disc's title, Coloratura. Glière: Concerto for Coloratura Soprano; Sibelius: Luonnotar – review 2012-11-08T21:52:01Z The designer’s foray into the mythic upper-class English world of country estates between the 20th-century wars produced one of his finest collections. Fashion Review: As New York Fashion Week Ends, a Crisis of Identity 2012-02-17T17:58:42Z His latest work, “In A Wild Swan and Other Tales,” is a collection that includes mythic characters and talismans in fictional worlds. Spare Times for Nov. 13-19 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z The effect of “Cowboy Graves” is less the piecing together of a puzzle than the recentering of a whole, mythic world. Roberto Bolaño Recenters His Mythic World 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z “So many young people today are fascinated by history,” she said, “and this show was such a mythic, incredible moment.” Inside Art: At Venice Biennale, Sarah Sze’s ‘Triple Point’ 2013-05-30T19:51:10Z Hugo was not a "name" photographer with pretensions towards artistic suffering whose mythic, difficult reputation preceded him. Hugo Dixon obituary 2010-12-03T16:25:00Z They are nearly mythic to painting fans of a certain age but known mostly from photographs, or seen one or two at a time. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z But the mini-series doesn’t make the most of the mythic clash of mother, lover and ungrateful child. | 'Mildred Pierce': Battling the Depression for an Ungrateful Daughter 2011-03-24T11:00:00Z Three mythic plots are conflated and acted out simultaneously, on a single set. Myth and mirth take the stage at Oregon Shakespeare fest 2012-07-19T21:29:02Z Her protagonists have gained weight and substance, and appear to be isolated in bleak empty spaces that feel mythic or postapocalyptic. Dana Schutz’s New Paintings Just Might Be Her Best 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Their conversation mingles the personal and the mythic. Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen: The Latest Podcast Duo 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z No offense to Peggy McWilliams or the good people at the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, but pulling into Humboldt Redwoods State Park, I wondered: who needs a mythic ape when you’ve got redwood trees around? T Magazine: The High Life 2011-03-25T17:30:04Z Among its biggest missteps is its use of voice-over narration meant to lend the events a mythic quality. ‘Die in a Gunfight’ Review: Another Tale of Star-Crossed Lovers 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Sometimes, a fiction writer’s hyping of a putatively mythic character backfires: Aware the author is trying too hard, the reader rebels. ‘Quicksand’ review: A zany, and trying, tale of a man who can’t catch a break 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z The tome of that title provides scenes of Mormonism’s mythic history that are given literal-minded life onstage. On Broadway, Old Friends Walking on Air 2011-05-12T14:27:20Z Taproot Theatre brings to life Mary Zimmerman's vibrant adaptation of the Homeric saga about the mythic journey home by a Trojan War hero. The Week Ahead: Morcheeba's on The Seattle Times' list of A&E highlights 2011-02-24T00:39:04Z The $75 million “Spider-Man,” with its record losses and trail of onstage accidents, may come to occupy a mythic place in the annals of Broadway. As ‘Spider-Man’ Closes, Business Will Feel Bite 2014-01-02T22:57:11Z He has channeled his obsessiveness into exercise and performing, transforming himself from has-been into something of a mythic icon, certainly in Canada. If you could read Gordon Lightfoot’s mind, this is the tale his thoughts could tell 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Our story begins in a time before time — never a good sign — when two mythic beasts, brothers named Love and Wrestling, fought for control of the emerging world. | 'Mission Drift': ?Mission Drift,? a Musical at the Coil Festival - Review 2012-01-12T00:17:21Z I like when a movie has an abstract set of images because it allows you to access more of the fairy tale and mythic quality. "It's America's genre": Thandiwe Newton defends her land in "God's Country," a modern-day western 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Like many defeated peoples, these soldiers, their families, and their descendants created a mythic vision of history in which the worldly victors suffered, and continue to suffer, a total moral defeat. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z But I think this is actually closer to the mythic and Gothic traditions of Southern fiction, as found in James Dickey, Flannery O'Connor or Faulkner. "Winter's Bone": American film of the year? 2010-06-12T23:01:00Z Nothing is what it seems in this mythic modern opera. Recordings: A New Recording of Philip Glass?s Opera ?Orph?e? 2010-08-01T02:00:00Z "We want to establish her as a mythic character without our names getting in the way." We can't stop talking about the Donelle Woolford controversy 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Tony Soprano became a mythic hero in American culture, and that was hard for the actor to live down. The TV Watch: A Complicated Actor Who Made a Complicated Mob Boss Indelible 2013-06-20T23:08:03Z Szarkowski, for one, believed that the sharpness that larger film offered was in keeping with her aim to be both particular and mythic. How Diane Arbus Became ‘Arbus’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z I'm less convinced by the argument that the story has some profound mythic resonance. The Lion King: a feast for the eyes, if little else 2011-01-04T20:32:52Z Cyrano — we are told by his gossipy friends and admirers — is a mythic hero, a “rare being” who’s a poet, duelist, soldier and gourmet par excellence. Theater Review: ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,’ With Douglas Hodge 2012-10-12T02:00:00Z "There is little doubt that he created the mythic creature that the Latin American dictator became," she admits. Bolívar by Marie Arana – review 2013-06-15T15:00:01Z While it wasn’t mythic, it did have its moments. At Louis Vuitton and Valentino, Mapping the Season’s Genome 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z It's pretty much accurate to describe Senna as the Pelé or Muhammad Ali of his sport, a personality who transcended his limited environment, and Senna's story has a tragic, mythic dimension theirs do not. "Senna": Meet the Elvis of racing drivers 2011-08-12T00:30:00Z But the kind of language, and this idea of a mythic time and space, was definitely an influence. Q. and A.: Chris Potter on ‘The Sirens’ 2013-02-05T17:18:12Z Its three heroines have an unassailable sense of their own self-worth, while their psychological battles have an almost mythic resonance. Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye – review 2012-07-06T21:55:12Z There is a mythic new man in fashion retail, much talked about but seldom encountered. ‘Footwear Is a Gateway Drug’: How Saks Lures Men to Its New Store 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Artists remember things like the anti-Semitic symbolism baked into an opera about the mythic origins of the German Fatherland and the rise of the übermensch. #JusticeForFlint’s radical love: While Oscar’s glamour beckoned, the real artists helped Flint be seen and heard 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z She is impatient with the standard approaches to Kahlo, which tend to see the art, especially the self-portraits, as emblems in a now almost mythic life story. In ‘Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life,’ Nature Melds With the Artist Herself 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Diorama groupings, a mismatch between mythic subject matter and amateur performances, even a skittish narrator giving a halting reading of stilted text — it was all there. Dance Review: Hula by Na Kinimakalehua at Montclair State - Review 2011-10-25T22:02:14Z The album is now considered a landmark in bringing classical influences, epic length and mythic scope to rock ‘n’ roll. Rocker Ian McDonald of King Crimson and Foreigner dies at 75 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z I think what we are going for is condensing stage time, while distending mythic time … if that makes ANY sense! The Emails Behind the Opera ‘Eurydice’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z |
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