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...myth is not what it is considered to be in everyday speech-a fantasy or a misstatement. It is rather a veiled explanation of the truth. The transformation from fact to myth is endlessly fascinating. The battle of Achilles and Hector, for example, is symbolic, but there was a Trojan War in which great heroes fought. The psychological duel between Faust and the Devil is a philosophical and psychological metaphor, but Georg Faust, a German magician who was born about 1480, did live and did make claims to superhuman power, including the ability to restore the lost works of Plato...
Take a coke-snorting smuggler, a crooked Army quartermaster, a deceptively dippy hooker and a smooth-talking expert in alarm systems. Add a bank, ultramodern European and defiantly burglarproof. The hooker is greedy, the alarms expert larcenous and the bank eminently susceptible to a shrewd variation on the Trojan-horse tactic...
Maternity clothes have always been designed like the Trojan horse: to hide, disguise and deceive. The wider the dress, the more pleats and folds, the less identifiable the condition-or so traditional pregnancy fashions would have it seem. Lately, however, the shape of things to come has undergone some happy alterations, supplanting voluminous tents and overhanging blouses with jumpsuits and knickers, low-cut evening gowns and even hot pants. Largely through the intervention of the Lady Madonna Maternity Boutique, women can now look great with child...
...force in a university and "show beyond a shadow of a doubt that something important has changed" should be readmitted. "The burden of proof rests exclusively on the student," Deitch said, warning that "failure to take the question of readmissions seriously is by analogy an invitation to bring the Trojan horse back a second time...
...Gaulle regarded London's application to join the Common Market as a Trojan horse that would give the U.S. an entrée to Europe-"the American hand in the British glove," he called it. As a result, he vetoed Britain's application in 1963, setting back the rest of Europe's then bright dreams of eventual political federation...