Word: myth
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...Working in the vague zones where reality, fantasy, and myth overlap, Videt sometimes has trouble writing real people, but with Kulz and Renaud the emotions are tangible and down-to-earth. Things get cheesy sometimes—“This is what it means to love an artist!” is one of Eve’s less successful lines—but Videt is usually better at bodies than words. There is a moment, during an argument, when Renaud throws herself back on a bed before slowly curling in on herself. The gesture, which mixes irritation, helplessness...
...does partisanship better than the Ragin' Cajun. In his latest book, the Louisiana-bred campaign strategist, who recently returned to teach political science at Tulane, takes a victory lap celebrating the Democrats' 2008 electoral trifecta. "The myth of Republican competence and fiscal responsibility is shattered," a victim of the strategic and economic missteps of the Bush years, Carville gleefully notes. If Democrats play their cards right, he argues, they can dominate politics for the next four decades. The key? "To rebuild Americans' trust in government as a force of good." His excitability is infectious, if only to those...
...look, both choices are still possible; ‘yes’ and ‘no’ exist and are valid at the same time. If you look, one of the possibilities vanishes. This is an accessible explanation of the physical concept, which the Orpheus myth follows entirely.” Executive producer Kevin J. Davies ’10 agreed that the play celebrates the beauty of physical laws. “[‘The Space Between’] began as an exploration of what staging physics would be like through dancing, [and] sound video...
Engrained in the mind of every American kid is the myth of the life-changing summer—those three languid months between the end of childhood and the first steps into real life, a series of long days without parents or school to live wildly, fall in love, and find one’s true self. June, July, August: enough time to take a walk on the wild side, turn around, and walk back.In “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh,” written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (“Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story?...
...have any good information, and it would be irresponsible of us to say why." When you speculate in a case like this, it very quickly morphs into "fact." We started with the assumption that school shooters tend to be loners, outcasts and bullied. That turned out to be a myth: some are bullied, but not even 50%. The majority are not any of those things...