Word: mythical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This crazy house is not all that crazy. Shepard links his characters, however kinky, to the blood consciousness of D. H. Lawrence, to mythic forces that defy the intellect yet stir primal fears and lusts. The cast is exemplary, paced by Hamilton's Dodge, a blistered shadow of Lear on a parched prairie heath.-T.E.K...
...Coup, Updike widens the horizons of this exploration. In effect, he puts on black face and tap dances with breathtaking agility and grace through the contradictions of culture clash and leadership in a revolutionary African nation. The mythic Islamic country of Kush resembles France's former real estate in West Africa, with a touch of Haile Selassie's Ethiopia...
...peripatetic Sicilian railroad engineer, De Chirico knew it well: the ocher walls of provincial towns, the neglected public gardens, the statuary and antique rubble. On the other hand, modernity was constantly thrusting its emblems into this dream: trains, clocks, surveyors' instruments, rulers, protractors. From this collision between mythic time and measured time, an extraordinary poignancy arose; and the best of these early De Chiricos have not dated...
...possible, isolating the Soviet Union and, above all, acquiring the capital, technology and expertise to transform China into a superpower by the year 2000. Scuttling Mao's sacred precept of national self-sufficiency, China's leader have called for "a New Long March," toward modernization. There are mythic overtones to that phrase: Mao's original Long March of 1934-35, from Kiangsi to remote Shensi province, was the crucible that forged the Communist Party in China...
Today the mythic has become real; cheap handguns and narcotics have become the outlets for aggression. Ironically, desegregation is partly responsible. Middle-class blacks, once a restraining force in the ghetto, have moved out and left behind lower-class enclaves. Social ties that still bind Hispanics, like family and religion, have worn away. Though blacks increasingly attack whites, most of their victims are other blacks...