Vampire mask purchased at Fun World, Glen Cove, N.Y. "I think David loved thinking about the mythic — about what's mythic and why," says Carr.
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The hairs came from a deer, not a mythic ape.
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Halie and Dodge are kind of these pretty mythic creatures.
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Bran's vision casts some of this mythic history into doubt.
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Ryder seems approachable, but she can also be almost mythic.
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A boy is told his parents' near mythic love story.
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At best, the mythic Trump wall is a political symbol.
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He follows her through the door into the mythic kingdom.
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In the popular imagination, drug traffickers have become mythic figures.
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The ordinary and mythic happen right next to each other.
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No, says Athena; she borrows the mythic name for fencing.
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The ideal boyfriend — beautiful, unattainable, inappropriately younger — becomes literally mythic.
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She was gilded with the mysterious, mythic aura of royalty.
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It attempted to be mythic and modern in equal measure.
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The anticipation for the subterranean history galleries already feels mythic.
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We can learn a lot from UASD's mythic quest. 1.
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An idealist, a charmer, an American rockboy aware of his status as such, Flowers confounds as a frontman; he can't decide if he wants to tell mythic stories or be a mythic figure himself.
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What he was doing back then was mythic and sometimes beautiful.
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The Mythic Invitational is digital-born and built around promoting Arena.
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A little further down the road, I spot some mythic scribes.
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Mythic, yet another chip maker, has raised $9.3 million in financing.
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It's mythic dimension resonates with so much of his own life.
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All that matters is your reckoning with your beautiful, mythic suffering.
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The other four levels attend to Kalimpong's mystical and mythic legacy.
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The Mandalorian is Star Wars stripped to its bare, mythic essentials.
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Sparse, mythic, small stories set in the fringes of the galaxy.
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Like the mythic heroes of Quinn's screenwriting guide, Federle has triumphed.
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Al Capone wasn't always a mythic antihero of American gangland folklore.
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It's time to shatter the mythic status of 'one national program.
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But beneath the superficial lure of a mythic analogy, the comparison
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He eschews conventional realism, pushing his characters into almost mythic states.
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In another reading, Trudeau's chiseled form adds to his mythic stature.
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To the unitary, mythic Moon had been added an astronomical counterpart.
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Thankfully, his either-handed efforts still include novels of mythic power.
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Queen & Slim aspires to be a Black tragedy of mythic proportions.
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Mythic Quest will release at some point for Apple TV Plus.
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That mythic tenor might explain why his photographs evoke vacancy or desolation.
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Programs like Mythic Bridge teach LGBT youth to be comfortable and creative.
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Recent projects have tended to mitigate the mythic construction of Ader's identity.
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And yet, the story of Atlantis is not without its mythic elements.
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His work has a starkly graphic and mythic quality that is entrancing.
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Of course, the mythic, take no shit Diane (Laura Dern) is involved.
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"history" of King Arthur, he set the story in the mythic past.
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These guys try things the mythic private eye would get away with.
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The way it contains layers of both the empirical and the mythic.
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And indeed appeared to be doubling down on its mythic items push.
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I stared for a long while, transfixed by the almost mythic scene.
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This mythic event is called Cleganebowl, and, as they say, get hype.
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As mythic as Paul and Tommy are, they're both pretty regular guys.
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She was an author, an artist, a swan and a mythic figure.
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"Once and Forever" offers glimpses into a vanished, semi-mythic agrarian world.
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Hunters deliberately channels the grand, mythic spirit of Golden Age comic books.
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" Wilkinson said, "It's one of those mythic Oxford tales that's actually true.
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Yet the specifics of the tale matter less than its mythic presentation.
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How have some invoked the "state's mythic toughness" to give Texans hope?
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It's a shot designed to make the land look mythic and untouched.
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It's not just some mythic breastplate forged for an already-legendary hero.
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This is when Léger functions as a mythic oracle of our times.
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Naturally, Mahavuthivanij — who is running Mythic with three other co-founders plus several other part-time contractors — thinks Mythic can change and grow the market for people who do care about hard assets by divvying up their ownership.
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Cox is confident in his brushstrokes when forming mythic environments and elaborate characters.
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He focuses on the mythic city in which he grew up: Los Angeles.
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"It never happened!" she exclaimed when asked about the mythic Timberlake-Spears event.
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In Ms Barker's hands, these venerable scenes and mythic names magically become new.
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Red's mythic journey turns Mandy's death into something more than a random killing.
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Having escaped from prison, Escobar remains a folk hero and near-mythic figure.
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All these spirits dwell in a mythic land called Ginen, a cosmic Africa.
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He believes that "Yerma" has a comparably dense mythic, and therefore universal, quality.
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Even Thor is now an extradimensional visitor rather than an actual mythic god.
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Success Academy has earned a mythic reputation in the nation's education reform movement.
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Then, on September 30, 2004, the giant squid became a little less mythic.
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Ranchers and seekers of the "mythic West" travel each year to Elko, Nev.
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The songs (in English) are confessional and intimate, but strangely large, almost mythic.
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Chivers's achievement has been to make his subjects mythic as well as human.
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As the centuries have passed, our Founders have achieved an almost mythic character.
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At times it has the mythic sweep of an early Terrence Malick movie.
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The S-Files have acquired near-mythic boogeyman status in the French imagination.
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Maxwell has said he strives to portray mythic figures in his own writing.
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It's shaggy and messy, less mythic than the previous trilogy and more magic.
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Its artist, the taquero, holds an almost mythic status in Mexico City culture.
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When mythic histories supplant the complexities of the past, the results can be lethal.
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The sequence, like many in Mr Loznitsa's films, seems at once hyperreal and mythic.
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For those newer entrants into the mythic world, Norse Mythology is a wonderful introduction.
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Mythic Quest doesn't always manage to tackle these subjects with grace, to be clear.
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Or is it an ordinary California suburb reborn as a mythic, jewel-colored marshland?
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These connections, more psychological than art historical, explain the intensity of Ader's mythic status.
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In fantasy, their origin is mythic, forged in magic too dangerous for mere mortals.
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She had all the mythic attributes of desirability: she was beautiful, vivid, self-contained.
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Prior to their Series A, Mythic had raised about $2.5 million in government grants.
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But its members exhibit the same fondness for Roman salutes and mythic glory days.
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But if mythic intoxication was an inheritance, who had the right to claim it?
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To explain more—to try to explain more—would ruin the story's mythic power.
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They know the mythic "she" is perfectly capable of figuring it out for herself.
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Jen's survival, while neither supernatural nor superhuman, nonetheless grants her a quasi-mythic status.
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These crosscurrents of connection add up to a consonance that might almost be mythic.
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But Trump would have found another way to transform himself into a mythic figure.
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Imaginary, remote and timeless, mythic tales show the universal aspects of our human condition.
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"Little House on the Prairie" assumes a mythic status among some of its characters.
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The mythic quality of "order versus chaos," as a narrative, transcends any place or time.
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"Everything we read about Jesus in the gospels conforms to the mythic hero," Price says.
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Mythic Quest is a made-for-Apple TV+ sitcom about working in video game development.
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Ader's mythic status is the subject of a 1996 episode of NPR's This American Life.
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Styx derives its title from the mythic passage of water separating earth from the underworld.
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Each story strikes a tricky balance: using a mythic past to depict a somber present.
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We thought that ... fits well with this mythic character that we know from Season 1.
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For many Americans, Mexican Coke holds a kind of mythic status as the Better Coke.
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On the bank of a river that has become mythic—"majestic"—in the American imagination.
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This is your people, this, the mythic West your grandparents wished to reach, and reached.
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There is no mythic England as represented by the Shire, or the kingdom of Westeros.
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" In "Vader in Love," another mythic patriarch gets a makeover: "Meanwhile Vader's in love again.
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SUNKEN HUNDRED Illtyd Barrett, a Welshman, has named his pub for a mythic undersea kingdom.
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Like Homer's Odyssey, Assassin's Creed is a twist-filled, seafaring adventure that feels truly mythic.
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It's not clear whether Epic's re-evaluation will result in mythic items being ditched entirely.
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"It was really like a jolt of adrenaline — it's such a mythic skyline," he said.
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He was primarily an allegorist who folded mythic figures into otherworldly visions of pagan religiosity.
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On the contrary, his is an attempt to recover the mythic foundations of the present.
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Even for those who love his music, Swamp Dogg remains an enigmatic, almost mythic figure.
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This was cotton-farming country, northeast of Dallas, and there was nothing mythic about it.
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Each lent a mythic glow to a mother fading into memories of an idealized past.
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Like much in Mr. Hwang's catalog, this stuff feels both intensely personal and oddly mythic.
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Whoever buys Grey Gardens will be taking on a home with a nearly mythic history.
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It also blows open a huge world of mythic possibilities for The Mandalorian Season 2.
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There's plenty to like about "Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet," a new series on Apple TV+.
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The tiny Jamaican backwater of Gibbeah is locked in a mythic battle for its soul.
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This is the first time this image occurs in Europe as a central mythic symbol.
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She believes it to be a mythic battle where good and evil are distinctly divided.
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Mythic Bridge is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to fund its work supporting LGBTQ youth filmmaking.
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"Mythic Bridge has helped me grow as an artist and as a person," Alexis tells Mashable.
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The hothouse palette, domestic scenes, and mythic figures are motifs Bearden touched upon throughout his life.
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Companies like Mythic have raised significant venture funding in order to build that kind of hardware.
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Coover is revered as a writer's writer for his mythic vision and experiments with literary form.
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Yes, the monetary, promotional, poetic, prosaic, and mythic possibilities for such a fight would be boundless.
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He would not live to see the group he formed grow to its now-mythic heights.
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And to them I say: That is exactly what we need from mythic heroes and idols.
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Though strictly formalist, the works hint at mythic narratives, an allusiveness reinforced by their Latinate titles.
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He tried to marshal the power of history on a mythic scale to advance black history.
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The original 2005 release from Team Ico has achieved near-mythic status in video game fandom.
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They formed the backbone and brought the mythic beginnings of the free people settled there today.
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The Infinity Blade has been Vaulted and we are re-evaluating our approach to Mythic items.
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There are no mythic places in Wiseman's world, which is a land of practicality and procedure.
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There is, among its mythic characters, a much-loved, kinder and gentler national hero: the larrikin.
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There is nothing quite so mythic as a buzzer-beating game-winner in the NBA postseason.
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Preview There is a mythic new man in fashion retail, much talked about but seldom encountered.
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David "DAVEY" Stafford, who currently competes with Mythic, and Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill will serve as analysts.
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He bootstrapped the company before that word became shrouded in the mythic haze it has today.
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Instead he preferred the Nazi SS officers, seeing in them something closer to a mythic ideal.
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To me, it's been very interesting to write about its mythic overtones, and I really enjoy that.
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Taggart had first heard about the mythic material when watching the 1984 film "Ghostbusters" as a kid.
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Popular culture has continued to try to make sense of the event, which takes on mythic proportions.
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Among some computer engineers, Lena is a mythic figure, a mononym on par with Woz or Zuck.
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The hooks are there, but masked by a haze of delay, contributing further to his mythic vibe.
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Rent-controlled and rent-stabilized apartments occupy a kind of mythic place in New York City history.
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But the fishermen managed to secure 19 feet of tentacle — more proof of the mythic squid's existence.
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For a Canadian with a green card, Mr. Sutherland is oddly smitten with the mythic American West.
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All my life, from my earliest memories, I've known of a semi-mythic place called the Tetons.
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Throughout Suqian, Liu is spoken of in tones that suggest a mythic hero or a minor deity.
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The unnamed narrators of these love poems live in an unidentified place in a distant mythic past.
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At times it has the mythic sweep of an early Terrence Malick movie, according to Dwight Garner.
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"Gone With the Wind" is set amid a mythic depiction of slavery tragically common in its time.
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These early lessons on integrating mythic content and psychic energy into art would shape his entire career.
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It's a quirky piece about patterns in nature and art — nothing cosmic or mythic but compelling enough.
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And Soundgarden was platonic grunge—head banging, mythic, and absorbent of those violent tantrums of adolescent frustration.
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This is why Mythic Quest works, even if you don't know the first thing about video games.
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When "Porgy" is firmly ensconced in the realm of operatic make-believe, it gains a mythic breadth.
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Chief Acevedo was among those who said that the state's mythic toughness would help Texans soldier on.
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Anyway, Mythic Quest looks like a Silicon Valley-esque sitcom, just set within a messy gaming startup.
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It's epic in every sense of that word: sweeping, mythic, over-the-top, colossal and dizzyingly complex.
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Even with Moore's rebuke of the work, it's still one of those mythic, untouchable comic book tomes.
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The well was the only one ever drilled there and had obtained mythic status in the state.
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According to our narrator, the holes — much like the passageways between the galleries, intentionally left unadorned by WangShui for this exhibition — were built to allow mythic dragons to pass from the mountains to the ocean, a nod to the mythic that exists within (and in defiance of) modern sterility.
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The show, named after its fictional MMORPG Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet, stars McElhenney and is coming to AppleTV+.
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It is simultaneously wraithlike and titanic, an industrial era answer to the mythic ambition of the Egyptian pyramids.
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The "Best Shot" singer was geeking out on the mythic theme park long before he topped the charts.
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BvS, which was a lot more enjoyable than the reviews indicated, was intensely conscious of its mythic baggage.
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Kahn's poems are strategic attacks against mythic fictions like selfhood, gender, even the universal acceptance of scientific knowledge.
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Originally attached to a whole, armor-clad warrior, this object does more than just symbolize a mythic character.
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Some poems are slight, some skinny, some linger or stretch into prose, halting or conversational, mythic or mundane.
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That mingled note of high courage and deep tenderness, a sort of mythic domesticity, sounded throughout Dunmore's career.
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The album's mythic sweep collides with its polished, arena-ready surface to produce a paradoxical modernism of intersection.
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Your virtual self rides (for instance) a mythic winged horse across shimmering, dusky skies in a mountain valley.
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Much of the giant squid's following is based on its place in mythic lore as a petrifying monster.
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So for the emotional, mythic aspect of it, the hero's journey, that was an important character to have.
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His sophomore effort, "John Henry Days," geeked out on the tunnels dug by that mythic steel-driving man.
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The 10-foot installations range from the mythic (a dragon) to the prosaic (a rabbit and a snake).
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The mythic reach of such imagery mirrors the way Fagan overlays elements of the tribal onto the quotidian.
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The photos are tranquil, intimate, and allude to the mythic connection women have with water and the tide.
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The orgasm note is a fabled, mythic musical note that allegedly makes women come without any physical stimulation.
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There's a mythic quality to the silhouetted figures who step from the shadows to sing and play instruments.
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It's based on the sprawling, mythic road trip novel of the same name by geek royalty Neil Gaiman.
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You might say that America's Fourth Great Spiritual Awakening has come in the form of this mythic revival.
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But they will certainly see something not native: a giant sculpture of a mythic kraken gripping a shipwreck.
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"It was one of those mythic auditions," recalled Mr. Macmillan, whose adaptation of "1984" just closed on Broadway.
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Yet the implacable pacing and Kenichi Negishi's unruffled cinematography shape Yasaka into a near-mythic instrument of destruction.
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All of the mythic South was in Gregg Allman's music: soul, blues, country, gospel, rock 'n' roll, jazz.
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I wanted it to have this larger-than-life mythic quality, this sort of god exiting this haze.
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Composers of the nineteen-twenties pioneered the trend, rejecting mythic trappings in favor of ocean liners and foxtrots.
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A 21973 documentary explores how Betye Saar's mythic altars illustrate the personal and political implications of Black identity.
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The image of the white cowboy reproduces and romanticizes the mythic iconography of settler colonialism and white supremacy.
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Hamilton's immersive installation allows visitors to wrestle with a mysterious land, its racial realities, and its mythic past.
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But this project has always been about finding the humanity behind the mythic figures that occupied the White House.
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Instead, one gets the sense Lears, like the viewer, was swept up into capturing Ocasio-Cortez' near mythic rise.
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The most concise thing I can say to reassure you games-lovers out there is Mythic Quest gets it.
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Mythic Quest has an awful lot to say about the tension between art and commerce in its first season.
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Seen from this perspective, modern science, engineering and technology are nothing other than the "rationalisation" of this mythic fear.
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Appalachia is not some mythic land out of time; it's a living place, as independent as it is impoverished.
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The 2016 exhibition, "Rites of Spring," brings contemporary form to centuries of mythic celebrations that welcome rebirth and renewal.
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Gallagher glosses over such controversies to present an almost mythic vision of the past, particularly the nation's westward expansion.
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In Mexico, wrestlers are elevated to an almost mythic level, but when it comes to food, they're still human.
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His works are so mythic that they've been associated with prophecy more than once, he tells The Creators Project.
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He stands out in this universe of prophesied saviors and virgin births because his mythic status is self-ordained.
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It was where a 2008 news story about two New Black Panthers patrolling a polling place gained mythic proportions.
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" But then he counters it by saying that to some General Ríos Montt was "a hero of mythic proportions.
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Home is a hive of siblings and cousins, presided over by Pio's mother, daughter of the semi-mythic grandpa.
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This is an origin story, first and foremost, establishing the mythic background and modern mission of its main character.
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There's also something mythic about a lone detective or a duo, righters of wrongs, imposers of order on chaos.
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It's about the endless, mythic war between the Greasers (the poor kids) and the Socs (the preppy rich kids).
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It's traditionalism without a tradition — a valorization of warrior imagery and mythic heroes in the absence of any historic anchor.
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Creators who stick around are well poised for big payouts, though hard stats are mythic and can often be misleading.
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But in the meantime, we're sure doing everything in our power to incorporate the mythic creature into our daily lives.
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By the time President Trump signed his Cybersecurity Executive Order on May 11, it had taken on a mythic air.
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The most concise thing I can say to reassure you video game fans out there is Mythic Quest gets it.
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Ian's constant butting of heads with Mythic Quest lead programmer Poppy Lee (Charlotte Nicdao) is the first season's strongest relationship.
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Finally, a tiny amount of Mythic Oil was dragged through the hair, which added to the lived-in, "sweaty" feeling.
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Few people contributed to a mythic, progressive vision of Hollywood in the 1990s and 2000s as much as Harvey Weinstein.
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Think of court jesters, the only people who could make fun of the king, or mythic trickster figures and devils.
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Derived from memory, Bearden's bayou is at once real and mythic, the Black counterpart to William Faulkner's apocryphal Yoknapatawpha County.
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Committees are a pain, they're not as mythic as a singular genius, they're often more timid than they should be.
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Mythic Quest is set in a game studio and follows the team behind a wildly popular massively multiplayer online game.
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In other words, life as an EDM entertainer sounds as sweet and mythic as you've always thought it would be.
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Their lyrics either work on a mythic scale or spiral off into absurdism; in their best songs, they do both.
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This mythic constancy prevails in Jun Kaneko's "Untitled," an installation of five dangos (a word that means "dumplings" in Japanese).
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By reducing the story to its mythic fundamentals, Maddow creates the illusion of completeness that novels and short stories create.
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David Stockwell, who owns the restaurant with Carla Swickerath, said the name was meant to reflect a certain mythic playfulness.
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Then he died and became more famous, a mythic cultural figure celebrated in hagiographic films and a Bob Dylan song.
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The tale involves a magician, reanimation and a huge mythic beast, but the men go on to Dutchman's Creek anyway.
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Over time, the behind-the-scenes story of Heathers has acquired the mythic quality of one of Veronica's dream sequences.
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After a decade of operating Dark Age of Camelot, Mythic decided to bring the same code to Age of Reckoning.
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By the time Mythic had fixed the problem, most of the game's players had migrated back to World of Warcraft.
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At times, the poetic logic reminds me of Wallace Stevens and Franz Kafka, which is to say outrageous and mythic.
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For in history, unlike in mythic memory, they fought like cats and dogs over every major issue, foreign and domestic.
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Like the city itself, it's ours, and yet it is bigger than us — both familiar and strange, mythic and banal.
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That's when the mob, fearing him to be the mythic child abductor he was hired to dispel, turned on him.
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I'd say our politics and our society are coming to resemble the competitive mythic ethos that is suddenly all around.
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There are beings that are mythic, that seemingly tie heaven and earth together in a way that beggars the imagination.
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It's difficult to explain without likening the incoming vibration to a giant mythic monster that wants to devour me. Shit.
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And over at Original Content, we've got a review of "Mythic Quest," the video game-focused comedy on Apple TV+.
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The "Murder Mystery" star had something to celebrate with his buds as he emerged from the water in mythic form.
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He's a psychologist who's turned Jungian interpretation of mythic archetypes into an idiosyncratic self-help philosophy for a secular age.
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Seon makes her subjects into mythic characters through creating portraits of machine-stitched thread over underlying photographed images of eyes.
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Mythic Owl was founded in 2014 by chief executive officer Tomasz Mularczyk to create games that give educators more teaching tools.
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Mythic Owl worked with Joanna Faber and King for ten months to make sure Parenting Hero stayed true to their book.
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For this reason, members of the team that gave life to the new GT love making the car's development sound mythic.
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It's called Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet, and it's coming to Apple TV, though it's not clear exactly how Ubisoft is involved.
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As an exemplary document of anxious artists, particularly Sondheim, it has taken on a mythic status in both film and theater.
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In 252, she withdrew her Mythic Being footage from the Radical Presence show curated by Naomi Beckwith and Valerie Cassel Oliver.
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It's also the latest sign that this mythic car, which started as a dreamy concept in 2015, is actually becoming real.
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The challenge for Mythic, however, is going to get into the actual design of some of the hardware that comes out.
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Mythic (my firm Lux is an investor) is performing the multiply and accumulates inside of embedded flash memory using analog computation.
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In short, our once ripped PTFO-muscle is now more of an elusive mythic superpower that we're constantly struggling to remaster.
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To the uninitiated, its hard-to-pronounce acronym can conjure up visions of a Greek mythic figure pushing a rock uphill.
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It's both mythic and a little tacky, in the way that the stories baseball tells about itself can tend to be.
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Others, like William's companion Logan and the mythic Man in Black, see Westworld as an invitation to be vile and malicious.
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Bass is, hands down, a master of the short form, creating in a few pages a natural world of mythic proportions.
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The encounters all seem mythic, though maybe it doesn't matter if the author is playing with Hindu or Greco-Roman cosmology.
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When we see our lives in mythic terms, we can see that life still offers a chance to do something heroic.
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Still, these early women are archetypes rather than individuals, closer to the mythic figures of Corot's Neo-Classical and Romantic forebears.
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Johnson: It's a combination of that mythic hero's journey, which is all really about going from childhood through adolescence into adulthood.
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What I think happens is that there is a critical reprimand for choosing mythic elements and allegorical elements in American theater.
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Sanders goes untouched in these debates because the other candidates don't have a mythic platform from which to launch an attack.
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The Mythic Championship is a three day tournament pitting Magic's top tier players against each other for a $750,000 grand prize.
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Mord owes nothing to Old Ben, the bear in "Go Down, Moses," who is mythic to be sure, but strictly earthbound.
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Her protagonists have gained weight and substance, and appear to be isolated in bleak empty spaces that feel mythic or postapocalyptic.
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A savvy celebration of a mythic urban sophistication, it is basically the sum of its epigrams and perfectly groomed star turns.
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Swann's whole story was mythic, but it was already the wrong kind of myth for the league the NFL was becoming.
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I recommend the Geena Davis Institute On Gender In Media, Mythic Bridge, We Do It Together, WIFT, Women Make Movies, and YWLN.
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It envisioned an energetic facsimile of mythic pan-Africanism, appealing to Western audiences as would-be consumers and would-be conservationists alike.
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He acknowledged that there were challenges, like helping the "Mythic Quest" writers realize that the developers needed time to do their work.
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When "the industrial Midwest" becomes synonymous with this mythic version of white people, the concerns of other groups go unheard and unaddressed.
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It can be hopeful to believe that a celebrity — a seemingly mythic, larger-than-life creature — can understand your most vulnerable self.
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Hamid's mythic tone and his choice to leave the country unnamed draw the reader further into the escalating unknowns the characters experience.
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In reality, Bhumibol&aposs power to sway events was more mythic than actual, particularly as his health faded in the last decade.
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The narration, which does the absolute most in terms of elevating Celeste's story to mythic status, doesn't do much to clarify things.
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Mythic says it plans to have a sample for customers by the end of the year, with a production product by 2019.
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Rob McElhenney took the stage at Ubisoft's E3 press conference today to announce the news: a comedy called Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet.
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Swiss Army Man puts them in what appears to be a mythic, primeval forest in which their elemental selves begin to emerge.
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As in much of the Delta, the region's near-mythic African-American practitioners of the blues are considered its most vaunted figures.
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Nathan's Famous, on Surf Avenue in Brooklyn's Coney Island, gave the world the hot dog and a near-mythic immigrant success story.
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In some of the former, the Mythic Being appears inscrutable alongside thought bubbles filled with teenage lines about liking boys at school.
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The most urgent are those of Trump, who impulsively painted himself into a corner and smashed headlong into his mythic border wall.
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But even as it's all delivered with the ritualistic pace of mythic litany, the presentation does not strive for a heightened tone.
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Bianchi still summers there, though he remains wistful about the island's heyday, and glad that he documented that mythic and impermanent time.
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Le Brun's portrait, most likely inspired by Domenichino's depiction of the mythic prophetess, captures Hamilton gazing upwards in search of divine inspiration.
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While the mythic founders can inspire us to do better, we should be wary of inviting them to make us feel small.
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Emphasizing disruption, decentralization and cooperation over the mythic ascent of heroic leaders, this graphic novel's presentation of civil rights is startlingly contemporary.
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LOS ANGELES — For the powerful music manager Scooter Braun, there were a few mythic figures who proved influential in his formative years.
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Which is to say, I undertook a mythic getaway (an American road trip …) for a slightly corny reason (…based on TV locations).
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In the age of "dadvertising," father-actors are, instead, competent, present, presentable, even mythic parents, and equal if not more hardworking partners.
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Maybe, then, the level of the mythic is the level on which we should appreciate Live in Front of a Studio Audience.
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There are many virtues to the mythic worldview — to stand heroically for justice, to be loyal to friends and fierce against foes.
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Mythic is capitalizing on the broader trend of fractional ownership that gives numerous investors a piece of the same — hopefully appreciating — asset.
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Global health Hemorrhagic fever inspires almost mythic terror, but whether it can be beaten depends more on people than on medical advances.
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After threading the 2016 Electoral College needle, Trump has acquired an almost mythic aura of invincibility for most people, election analysts included.
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She is also a mythic figure in the American imagination, an image she fought to control over the course of her life.
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For almost 500 years, pilgrims worshiped the Virgin's dark visage, and it accrued the kind of mythic currency integral to Catholic worship.
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But now, thanks to Elena Ferrante, the author and patron saint of many a contemporary bibliophile, Ischia conjures mythic promises of rejuvenation.
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Still, the mythic State of Jefferson remains firmly rooted in the minds of some residents in the most northern part of California.
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Carrie McKee "The Last Jedi" felt more like a whiz-bang Marvel movie than the grand mythic saga of the original trilogy.
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Raising money in 2015 and early 2016 was a nightmare, said Mike Henry, chief executive at the A.I. chip start-up Mythic.
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Surrealists, magical realists, post-modernists, and countless other movements or styles create fantastic worlds that function on other levels — mythic, philosophical, Freudian, etc.
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Developed by Warsaw-based education app startup Mythic Owl, Parenting Hero is illustrated with 1,500 panels hand-drawn by graphic designer Katarzyna Struczyńska.
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Apple TV+'s Mythic Quest comes to us from Charlie Day, Megan Ganz, and Rob McElhenney, of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia fame.
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And when the experiment ended — cash and energy ran out — the memory of it as an ideal lived on, waxing mythic with time.
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In 2008, Mythic Entertainment didn't credit for their work on the MMO Warhammer Online unless they were at the studio when it shipped.
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Whatever kind of weird, mythic power is imbued in these eyes—and whatever pain lies behind them—I do not want to know.
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With The Tree of Life (2011) and the films that followed, Malick created works that don't create myths, but take on mythic qualities.
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But director James Gunn also wants to go deeper emotionally this time, bolstering the story's mythic resonance in the manner of Star Wars.
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Szarkowski, for one, believed that the sharpness that larger film offered was in keeping with her aim to be both particular and mythic.
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It makes no sense, these days, to ask ethnically diverse students to celebrate those mythic dudes, with their odd hats and big buckles.
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The Mythic Being, as she called her character, was a man with a mustache and an Afro who wore jeans and mirrored sunglasses.
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"I think that, for any young person, these stories, these mythic narratives, can serve as an inspiration to achieve great things," she says.
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Meadows works in a biblical or mythic mode, presenting timeless tableaus: the apron left behind in the abandoned house, a souvenir of adultery.
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Ross is more in line with American mythic legends Paul Bunyan and Johnny Appleseed than historic figures like Clara Barton or Benjamin Franklin.
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The subject of many books, a new documentary and countless apocryphal-sounding stories, Mr. Close has become mythic, the Che Guevara of comedy.
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Others include Mythic, SambaNova, Graphcore, and more than a dozen others that are all looking at different pieces of the machine learning ecosystem.
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In fact, it's quite often the case in Silicon Valley, despite the mythic status the 'founder story' has attained there in recent times.
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Meanwhile, Jojo's travails along the road become ever more harrowing and deadly, in ways that feel increasingly mythic as the story goes on.
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Modiano's Paris is a Paris that no longer exists, and that, too, in our era of mythic nostalgias, feels political in its way.
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In his mature style, the diffuse mythic imagery of his earlier work is supplanted by harder-edged invocations of the here and now.
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It remains an extraordinary experience, an exercise that reduces the basic "Go from here to there" game directive into something mythic and allegorical.
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The name alone conjured an adult world of glamour and excitement, the mythic New York of the 1980s: Andy Warhol and Studio 54.
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After leading Union troops in the Antietam, Shenandoah and Appomattox campaigns, George Armstrong Custer was a mythic figure by the age of 25.
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Over the years, it has attained near-mythic status, and his associates have reported that it contained hundreds or even thousands of songs.
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" Mr. Gerstein dedicated the book to Mr. Petit, "for the gifts of his courage, his impeccable art and his mythic sense of mischief.
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The ice, once so thick that military tanks could rumble over it, is often too thin now for the mythic omiwatari to appear.
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Whitney director Adam Weinberg stood with Kanders for months, announcing he welcomed the demonstrators' "dissent," even as he reasserted the museum's mythic autonomy.
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"He's a much more mythic figure than Jefferson," said Annette Gordon-Reed, the author of "The Hemingses of Monticello" and a Harvard professor.
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And for many children affected by autism, like my son, the trains take on a mythic status, becoming a joy and a fixation.
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As the South started to look like everywhere else, he sought out its places that retained aspects of its mythic but impoverished past.
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But the movie gained mythic status among cinephiles, who most often had to settle for seeing it in a less-than-ideal form.
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Here is the transition from human to mythic Depeche Mode, servant to master over a sea of Americans who gave them overseas success.
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People struggle with this mythic idea of charter schools—about innovation that will flow from fewer constraints, and that makes sense to me.
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With his music Richard Dawson, coincidentally also signed to Domino, conjures hallucinogenic inner landscapes torn from the mythic realities of the English past.
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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.
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And the pontianak's vindictive nature helps to provide a mythic counterpoint to the real-life experience of being a woman in a patriarchal society.
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His brand of mythic realism lent an irresistible luster to "The Four Wise Men," a retelling of the biblical tale of the Three Magi.
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And when there's interest from tech giants, startups are willing to make a game of it — Rigetti, Mythic and Wave to name a few.
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The tone of Neil Strauss's sprawling article presents Musk as an almost mythic figure, who will one day be commemorated with statues on Mars.
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The tech industry is full of mythic tales of wunderkind college dropouts who leave prestigious universities to found companies and become self-made billionaires.
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Or, on the other hand, perhaps he wants to use wealth to displace his movies out of everyday life and into the mythic realm.
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Amid dramatic, swooping shots, a monotone male narrator tells the poetic story of enlisting a drone operator named Hercules (another mythic character, also displaced).
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Tony Hale is really a comedian of mythic proportions in this scene (granted, the myth is somewhere between Curb Your Enthusiasm and Golden Girls).
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The visual dimension of "Cornucopia" elaborates on that mythic vision, conjuring exotic plant life and animal forms on which Björk's face is sometimes superimposed.
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For many, the spectacle of its destruction could have emerged from the imaginary of the War on Terror and its mythic clash of civilizations.
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Though she was a real stray cosmodoggo, her afterlife has taken on a mythic dimension making her a frequent touchstone in fiction and music.
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Critic's pick Mixing documentary and fictionalized re-enactment, a new film about the mythic automaker tells a quintessentially American story of ambition and greed.
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The other six singers represent mythic-historical beings on Agni's path, Mozart and King Arthur among them, without being characters in any traditional sense.
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After attending the School of Visual Arts and enrolling at City College to study philosophy and musicology, she began her yearslong "Mythic Being" project.
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They are nearly mythic to painting fans of a certain age but known mostly from photographs, or seen one or two at a time.
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Zac Posen's mythic ascent to fashion superstardom is retold in "House of Z," a documentary by Sandy Chronopoulos available for streaming on Wednesday, Sept.
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A mythic figure at home, she has always kept her music fresh, even as a cavalcade of tragedies has dogged her throughout her life.
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Today, Frontier strikers have an almost mythic presence within the Culinary Union here — seen as exemplars of people who know how to fight effectively.
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Again, that might be mythic, there might be other reasons that he's voted out of office, but people will say retrospectively that that mattered.
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Selzer is widely regarded as far and away the most accurate pollster of Iowa, with her numbers taking near-mythic status amongst political gurus.
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It was the progenitor of the Luting clan, a mythic rebel general named Lu Xun, who swam to Hong Kong Island from the mainland.
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His presence in my own childhood had been mythic — a Jewish cultural influence more imposing than anyone I'd ever learned about in Hebrew school.
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All the scare stories about family farms and third-generation businesses going under have been proved to be as mythic as the subsidized slacker.
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Last month, "Canadian," the captain of Rainbow Six Siege's Mythic team, released a video (below) compiling nine of the worst of Clever's alleged cheats.
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Singleton's finest work" adding that "it moved the Afro-American experience into the kinds of mythic arenas in which John Ford cast his work.
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All the mythic literary pitches for the reawakening of memory, the importance of the Kabbalah, and the mourning of Yiddish culture, also look backward.
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Stories of real and mythic women who lived in extremes against dangerous odds and patriarchal violence are interspersed with letters, photos, diagrams, and calligraphy.
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The song of the summer holds a kind of mythic power in a way no other hit songs do the rest of the calendar year.
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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.
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There's also a more self-conscious, effortful laying down of foundations for a big mythic franchise with apocalyptic battles still way off below the horizon.
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For some fans, the allure of Star Wars has been more than just mythic archetypes (which many franchises have) or iconic spaceship designs and aesthetics.
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Mythic particularly focuses on the inference side of AI operations — basically making the calculation on the spot for something based off an extensively trained model.
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Steve Jobs has a mythic following, and in many circles, the idea of selling sugar water is a euphemism for spending time doing something meaningless.
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Her next novel, the first of hers to be published in English, in 2002, as "House of Day, House of Night", had similarly mythic appeal.
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Netflix describes the series as "a mythic saga" (one that's apparently received one heck of a budget), and this trailer really makes you feel that.
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We carry these places with us wherever we go, and they grow mythic because we have, for the most part, left them behind for good.
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Feats that last a split second, once they are endlessly replayed in slow motion from a dozen camera angles, acquire an aestheticized, even mythic quality.
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Most people mistakenly believe these pioneering establishments occur in overwhelmingly in metropolitan areas, such as in the now-mythic start-up culture of Silicon Valley.
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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.
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"Kiefer's work is very much about the mythic, and Rockefeller Center — born out of the ashes of the Depression — has that dimension," said Mr. Baume.
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That ambiguity of the term perfectly reflects the primordial soup that has spawned these works, at once mythic, while relishing their connection to earthly forms.
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Those who survived and managed to return to the mainland silently stalked the people who had banished them and, over the years, became mythic figures.
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" 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.
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For starters, it handed out renewals to Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet, Home Before Dark, Kumail Nanjiani's anthology series Little America, and M. Night Shyamalan's Servant.
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"There was a palpable awareness that this almost mythic figure had stepped out of history and into our gritty, rodent-infested newsroom," Ms. Sontag wrote.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Among the regulars was Aurélie Mery, one of the first to occupy the roundabout in what has become the near-mythic retelling of its foundation.
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Among the regulars was Aurélie Mery, one of the first to occupy the roundabout in what has become the near-mythic retelling of its foundation.
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"I've worked on a lot of ambitious projects, but this is the only one that has had mythic status before it's even started," she said.
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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.
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I'm enclosing a bibliography as well as an exhibition and lecture sheet to clarify this extremely paradoxical history, the punishing facts of this mythic 'career.
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Experts are still unsure if the beast was a wolf, an escaped lion, or an exaggeration of mythic proportions thanks to breathless coverage and rumors.
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Anger at predators, environmentalists and federal managers who threaten the mythic past of cowboys on the range is as strong there as anywhere in the West.
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If Peterson, and those like him, are successful at anything, they are successful at realizing just how vital symbolic, mythic categories are to the human experience.
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Related: Watch a Czech Planetarium Transform into a Mythic Light Show Enter an Interactive Galaxy in a Renovated Crypt Projection Mapped Cube Pulses with Digital Life
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Although few other relationships on the Experience Project grew to such mythic proportions, there are implicit mentions of several others throughout the forums, stuck for eternity.
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The program traces the pair's rise from small-time criminals to almost mythic murderers, ending with their deaths in a police ambush in Louisiana in 1934.
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I found the original battle against Steppenwolf surprisingly rousing, with its Green Lantern and Shazam cameos and its reminder of a lost mythic era of Earth.
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He's named after one of the most mythic figures in American politics, but John "Jack" Kennedy Schlossberg has kept a relatively low profile over the years.
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From the examples I have been able to find, Keister's figure evokes but does not look at all like the Aztec images of the mythic Ometeotl.
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Tolkien used the language of myth not to escape the world, but to reveal a mythic and heroic quality in the world as we find it.
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The Drifter's story resonates with that experience in a compelling way, giving mythic shape to a journey to understand, and recontextualize, the messiness of the past.
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In the years since, Stone, now married, developed his friendship with Dunning until he was invited up to the mythic farm he'd grown up hearing about.
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Mythic stories gravitated to her, and in death she acquired one more: that of a writer who died too young and went unrecognized in her lifetime.
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When I first saw the book, in the late eighties, I didn't understand why DeCarava occupied a near-mythic status among some of my photographer friends.
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Trump may still think he's a leader of mythic proportions, but every day it seems more clear that he's only a hero in his own mind.
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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.
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Shahin Farshchi, a Mythic investor and partner at Lux Capital, is one of the few venture capitalists who's already made money in the latest silicon boom.
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It is especially contentious because it would be the first dam to cross the Irrawaddy River, the mythic cradle of civilization for Myanmar's ethnic Burman majority.
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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.
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There's beauty and material innovation, yes, and here's the insight: he makes his figures, who are all figures of color mythic without leaning on typical mythology.
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Anti-Semites blamed Jews for the world's hard times, on the mythic grounds that 'international Jewry' controlled the world's economies and exploited Gentiles for their own enrichment.
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Shakespeare's plots might stem from old tales, but everything that's mythic or basic in these narratives becomes nuanced, complexly modern, as soon his characters open their mouths.
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Attempts to legislate reform prove frustrating, democracy and equality appear more mythic than promissory, and so on we go, behind screens, playing with the surface of things.
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Before I say more, a quick word about artist's intent: If you're already interested in Mythic Quest, I highly recommend watching the season as it's laid out.
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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.
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Bernard MacMahon defies convention by beginning with an anachronistic culmination—Robert Johnson's mythic "Cross Road Blues" was cut in 1937, well after country blues's 78-rpm flowering.
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There are startups like Cerebras Systems, SambaNova Systems, and Mythic, with a half dozen or so beyond that as well (not even including the activity in China).
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In the atrium, fairy-like creatures representing mythic characters from the text of Shan Hai Jing (or "Classic of Mountains and Seas") float above the cosmetics concessions.
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As a wannabe writer and aspiring musician, I was chasing that mythic community of hipster artists and oddballs that spawned my favorite band, TV on the Radio.
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"Co-creators Bryan [Konietzko] and Michael [Dante DiMartino] were trying to build something that had a mythic resonance," head writer Aaron Ehasz told me over the phone.
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The work's name is a reference to the Greek mythic figure who, in the Aeneid, is killed after trying to smash a hole in the Trojan Horse.
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Related: "Computer Thoughts" Projected onto a Giant Dome via Neural Network Watch a Czech Planetarium Transform into a Mythic Light Show Planetariums As Platforms For Immersive Art
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We speak of great athletes in mythic terms, as heroes or even gods, but the truly Olympian figures in modern professional sports are probably the team owners.
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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.
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Wearing an Afro wig, a fake mustache and mirrored sunglasses, she enacted the stereotype of an aggressive young African-American male whom she called the Mythic Being.
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It's the kind of sweet, wistful little story that Buffy first cut its teeth on while it was still figuring out how to go mythic and grand.
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All photos by Derek Scancarelli This week a simple tweet from Kanye West of an address in Manhattan kicked up mythic levels of downtown cool kid thirst.
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Mark Rothko, for example, wanted viewers to stand close to his paintings, to be enveloped by their hues, to have a mythic, transcendent experience with his work.
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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.
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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.
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That interest led to the first major renovation and expansion of our favorite piece of mythic infrastructure, a project that began with the work of Wilbur Siebert.
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First proposed in the 22.4s, the Second Avenue line has achieved near-mythic status over the years as the best transit idea that New York never built.
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We also discuss Anthony's interview with the creators of the show and how "Mythic Quest" might have been shaped by the involvement of video game company Ubisoft.
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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.
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" Tom Shales of The Washington Post, 26 years later, was more enthusiastic, praising him as "mythic, timeless, fearless — endowed by the gods with some absurd miraculous gift.
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The poems in the collection, displaying fairly conventional scansion and suffused with mythic references from Classical tradition, ancient sagas and oral verse, typify Mr. Merwin's early style.
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To be fair, the George R.R. Martin books on which the series is based establish a premise in which the mythic and epic will become more commonplace.
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Even fewer know how the city's mythic founder Guifré el Pilós (also known as Wilfred the Hairy) similarly slayed a dragon in defense of the Catalan people.
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It's just one example of the many ways Peterson has flattened history to fit mythic categories, rather than recognizing that these categories have, historically, always been in flux.
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After establishing a vague mythic backstory, you dive head first into the neon fever dream world of an unnamed female protagonist, who transforms into a badass masked biker.
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The quiet, the calm, has been celebrated in our region and has become a badge of honor and will likely take on mythic status in our history books.
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Talk to any folklorist, and you'll hear dozens of stories that cultures all around the world developed, seemingly independent of one another, from the mythic to the mundane.
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She walks ten miles every day to water, and she completes geoglyph after geoglyph: mile-wide shapes in the desert, extinct animals transformed into gigantic mythic art forms.
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Despite her varied pursuits, Cianciolo is perhaps best known for her now-mythic, anti-establishment clothing line RUN, for which she created 11 collections from 1995 to 2001.
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A common advertising campaign strategy, especially in subway and bus ads, seems to involve trading on New Yorkers' mythic negativity by reminding them what curmudgeons they still are.
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Vietnam mourned the loss of a rare giant turtle that was a fixture in Hanoi's central lake and a mythic symbol of the country's independence and long history.
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Griffin's preferred definition of fascism is: Fascism is a genus of political ideology whose mythic core in its various permutations is a palingenetic form of populist ultra-nationalism.
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She decided to begin further back, and work with the Brittonic stories of mythic sunken cities such as Lyonesse, recorded in Arthurian legend as having once bordered Cornwall.
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Music pulses throughout the project, giving "The Get Down" a beating heart even when it detours into the mythic, strange and surreal, including a few mildly gratuitous shootouts.
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So far they're the only two legendary Pokémon that have been released, out of a total of 9 legendaries and 2 mythic 'mon across Generations One and Two.
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Already there are startups like Mythic and SambaNova Systems, which have raised tens of millions of dollars and specialize in the rapid-fire calculations for typical AI processes.
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That tweet went viral, amassing over 6,000-plus "likes," but it took another factor to make BDE taxonomy inescapable: the alleged mythic proportions of Ariana Grande fiancé's penis.
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While Dunbar's recent art points to primordial states and mythic underworlds, the sculptural paintings of artist William Monaghan reference the mechanistic and post-industrial wastelands of contemporary life.
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Signs Preceding the End of the World, which came out in 2015, is a tale of border crossing that takes on mythic proportions, narrated by a switchboard operator.
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"Courrèges is a mythic house," said Meyer as he walked through the aisles of archives that include vintage bubble gum-pink jersey shifts and buttercup-yellow vinyl miniskirts.
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Treglown's careful study of Hersey's life and work helps shed light on a time as distant and mythic to us today as the Wild West was to Hersey.
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The game introduces its world with mythic imagery, not words, and with the exception of explaining which buttons do what, asks players to figure out the rest themselves.
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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.
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The straightforwardness of Garabedian's bright, simple colors and ungainly figures — mythic icons rendered as flawed, flesh-and-blood humans — springs from the directness and honesty of his vision.
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The female orgasm is a strange, powerful thing, and women get off in all kinds of unexpected ways—from root vegetables to the mythic orgasm-inducing musical note.
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The shift comes by way of her canonical series of "Mythic Being" performances and photo-based works, in which she hits the streets of Manhattan and Cambridge, Mass.
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The stories themselves are regularly embellished, and some have taken on mythic proportions, but the original tales come from a handful of tragic accidents over the last century.
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As the Doom Slayer—a mythic hunter of demons, shotgun always in hand—you're hunting down a hell priest in a fortress above a ruined, monster-infested Earth.
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The problem of belonging is a universal one, whether it surfaces from the loss of a country, of a happy childhood, or of some mythic state of innocence.
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For many, the image of Ms. Krim's face pressed against the window of an ambulance as she was taken away from a scene of mythic barbarity remains indelible.
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"For decades, many male directors have benefited from reviews in which they have been described in larger-than-life, almost mythic ways," Ms. Lauzen said in a statement.
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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.
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In March, WoTC removed pro-player Owen Turtenwald from its Mythic tournament—an invite only event where the best players in the game compete for millions of dollars.
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But nationalism – the wish to create, or to strengthen, the nation state against real or mythic enemies – remains a dominant current in the politics of the democratic countries.
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They have the votes to pass a budget so long as he does not insist on funding for his mythic border wall to separate the U.S. from Mexico.
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The landscape will never be the same, which might be what's really behind the mythic temblors we sometimes hear about — the screaming fights, the tears, the huffy silences.
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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.
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That case does not depend much on the story, which moves the mythic figures to a rural village called Angel's Roost and a slick nearby city called Rhododendron.
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In 1987 alone, roughly a third of all M.L.B. teams changed uniform styles, with each change characterized by a return to elements influenced by baseball's mythic, distant past.
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But his experience portraying men of mythic stature can be traced back to around age twelve, when he played the title role in Brecht's "Galileo" at theatre camp.
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More filmmakers followed suit and used the location as their movie backdrop, creating a deep association in moviegoers between Monument Valley's iconic landscape and the mythic American West.
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Most foreigners would probably be appalled, or maybe envious, if they were to grasp the extent to which even their saner American friends are living a mythic narrative.
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" To make it work, Sheridan inflates the celebrity gynecologist George Hodel (Jefferson Mays) into a mythic, city-straddling figure along the lines of John Huston's character in "Chinatown.
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It's a kind of birth story, or re-birth, dripping with mythic portents — Black Mountain being at least as much the birthplace of American modernism as New York City.
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The new PSA, titled "Love," is in support of Brooklyn-based nonprofit Mythic Bridge, which empowers at-risk youth with filmmaking skills so they can tell their own stories.
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While that figure sounds huge, only 30 percent of Indians actually have smartphones—meaning there are mythic piles of cash out there waiting for those with enough app savvy.
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Related: Enter a Painter's Mythic Other-World Inspired by Outsiders Slide into Fall with 4K Footage of Rocky Mountain National Park Bronze Arm Sculptures Squeeze Trees in a Chokehold
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That ecosystem of startups, like Cerebras Systems, Mythic, Graphcore or any of the other well-funded startups, all potentially have a shot at unseating GPUs for machine learning tasks.
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There's also a connection with this mythic poet's sidekick Shide, who is usually depicted as carrying a broom, and this imagery also comes up a lot in the performance.
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After all, the man he's fighting June 17 is as great a legend, as terrifying a force, as mythic a presence, as the sport of MMA has ever known.
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With his alchemic blurring of eras, the sheer scope and commitment of his massive projects and an insistence on valuing ambiance above so-called authenticity, he attained mythic stature.
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There are roller coaster dates, passionate kisses beneath a riot of fireworks, intriguing promises of lost virginity, the return of the near-mythic Ricky Devlin, betrayals and secrets revealed.
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There is a marvelously sprightly, loose and intuitive feel about Twombly's operatic paintings that manages to merge mythic, classical intellectualism with a Dionysian sensual immoderation that verges on shit.
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Recently Jennifer Lopez was snapped departing a SoHo gym having achieved that mythic, post-gym glow with a perfect messy bun and in a cute-yet-practical athletic groutfit.
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This would become one of the feats that would elevate Michelangelo to mythic status: that he not only salvaged the ruined block but also turned it into a masterpiece.
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It might serve you well to hark back to a mythic past that not only connotes a sense of uplift but also one of teetering slippage that requires resurrection.
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St. Vladimir, also known as Vladimir the Great, was a warrior prince of mythic proportions who established both the Orthodox Church and Rus, the embryo of the Russian state.
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The itinerary, we read, would follow the mythic hero Odysseus' convoluted, decade-long journey as he made his way home from the Trojan War, plagued by shipwrecks and monsters.
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Stan Lee, the person, has died which has allowed Stan Lee, the mythic folk hero that he spent most of his life cultivating, to gain more and more prominence.
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A theory circulated that Ms. Sherman-Palladino had taken aspects of several nearby towns (the gazebo in New Milford, the main street of Kent) and Frankensteined the mythic community.
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If he was for many white people the standard-bearer of a black America that was otherwise unknown to them, the news media's mythic imagery rendered Dr. King enigmatic.
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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.
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It's just that the one person, or 3 million people, who step up to take responsibility for the earth can't turn into mythic maidens and stop the unceasing rain.
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The artifact, a 500-pound, 10th-century sandstone statue of a mythic warrior, known as Duryodhana, is thought to have been looted from a temple in a Cambodian jungle.
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JESSE GREEN 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.
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These silent, mythic spaces are made more peculiar by the presence of random domestic objects: switch plates and light bulbs, bathroom faucets and mirrors, unadorned windows and wooden chairs.
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Aided by statements like Mr. Trump's in his State of the Union address, MS-217 has achieved an almost mythic level of infamy in the world of street gangs.
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Their affair is one of the most notorious in Hollywood history — and for many of the same reasons that made Brangelina such a mythic relationship in the public imagination.
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The ideal of traditionalist right-wing movements — which include, but are not limited to, fascist movements — is a kind of transformation of a person's individual life into a mythic story.
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Still, the idea of Reynolds succumbing one day after her beloved daughter did feel like a gut punch, and assumes an almost mythic status watching them interact during the filming.
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I've come to see this as an element of the work itself: it generates narratives, gets passed along from person to person, takes on a mythic life of its own.
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The mythic scope allows for some gorgeous shots in this two-minute sizzle reel, from a towering wave only defeated by music to spectral figures that harken back to Coraline.
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Far from the near-mythic and heavily powdered Canary Wharf super villains, a surprising number of regular customer service schmucks like myself were using cocaine to get through the day.
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Eternal Crusade isn't even the first MMO entry to sputter; Mythic tried and eventually failed to get Warhammer: Age of Reckoning stable enough to last longer than a few years.
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In fact, Miseducation establishes Hill as more than just a generic mythic figure; the comparisons she makes between herself and Jesus throughout the album suggest a more explicitly religious image.
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The comic book lore of Wonder Woman could point historic or mythic: The character originally fought in World War II, but she's also explored the cosmic territory of Greek mythology.
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He's estranged from his country and his family as well as the histories — heroic, tragic, mythic — that surface in his stories and in flashbacks of him during his military service.
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After announcing two ways to reduce its viability, Epic ended up removing the Infinity Blade and announcing that it would rethink its strategy for deploying "mythic" items in the future.
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Witches were part of my imaginary childhood playground, so I wanted to make an archetypal fairytale about the mythic idea of what New England was to me as a kid.
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When he meets and falls in love with Julia (Wilde), they join the Brotherhood and embark on a path of resistance against the Party and its mythic leader Big Brother.
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The Office went off the air in 2013, and those last few years were deeply, excruciatingly shitty, but the show has somehow found an almost mythic second life on Netflix.
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Piper also placed the Mythic Being in ads she took out in The Village Voice and in static, two-dimensional artworks, both formats accentuating the contrast between image and text.
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The tale of whether Heathrow, at 98 percent capacity, will get a third runway or whether ramshackle Gatwick, also near capacity, will get a second one has become almost mythic.
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Dan's own voice keeps intruding, and the hurried sequence of events suggests anxiety about getting the patient home, and returning him to a sparer, mythic narrative of endurance and wit.
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Padmé fell on the political side so squarely that the prequel trilogy expended significant visual and narrative energy trying to drag her toward the mythic, where Anakin Skywalker was waiting.
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His show, Yves-inspired though it was, amounted to a klaxon blast of youth, delivered under the aegis of one of the most august, nearly mythic, labels in French fashion.
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That scene is a jolt, because it's a reminder of the narrative ambition and mythic grandeur that's often reduced in this franchise to epic fights, fancy elocution and special effects.
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What makes Mythic Quest so satisfying is how all of its comedy is steeped in character, not in how video games are inherently goofy or ridiculous (though they often are).
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Like "Jerusalem," which probed the British yearning for a lost mythic grandeur, "The Ferryman" portrays a people in thrall to millenniums of history, in ways they're not always aware of.
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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.
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Here's one thing this trailer would almost definitely highlight if it were published by anyone other than Apple: Mythic Quest comes from the creators behind It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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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.
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A number of chip makers — including start-ups like Mythic, DeePhi and Horizon Robotics — are tackling this problem as well, pushing A.I. chips into devices ranging from phones to cars.
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All this lack-of-threes has led fans to perpetuate the joke about how Valve can't count to three and has given the elusive Half-Life 3 a near-mythic status.
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At this point in time, the work of Tolkien has an almost mythic status of its own, and to try and capture the impetus of his imagination is an impossible task.
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What it's about: Librarian and war orphan Lazlo Strange has spent his life dreaming about the mythic lost city of Weep, and the hope that one day he might find it.
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It may seem odd to feel such a deep longing for a time so recent, but to many of these teens, 2015 is a mental balm that's almost mythic in stature.
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Mike hadn't had a day like that—a day so fun, so uniquely New York in its mythic union of chance, strangers, and an unfamiliar bar—since before his father's funeral.
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While Mythic, or other companies, might have a proof-of-concept chip that can drop on the table, getting a production-ready piece of next-generation silicon is a dramatic undertaking.
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In under a decade, over 5,000 club, college and high school football teams began playing on the holiday, with Princeton and Yale's mythic rivalry drawing on average about 40,000-plus fans.
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The exposition comes awkwardly in The Dark Tower, with an unapologetic frankness that makes some of the potentially more poetic, mythic reveals land with all the grace of a dropped anvil.
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It includes real-life human beings, like Zink and her ex-husband, Zohar Eitan, but also a silkie (the mythic Scottish seal-woman, usually spelled "selkie") and a huge, gelatinous submarine.
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Details are thin at the moment, but the series is a workplace comedy set in the offices of the publishers behind the massively successful World of Warcraft-style MMORPG, Mythic Quest.
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Almost mythic in the American imagination, the car has been immortalized in television and film from "Route 66" and "Hot Rods to Hell" in the 1960s to "Corvette Summer" in 1978.
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Mihyar, the hero of the collection, is a figure of mythic proportions, an exile who roams through a blighted landscape and trumpets a new creed—indeed, a creed of the New.
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In those 90 minutes, Israel entrenched the image of itself, at least in some quarters, as a mythic land full of scholar-warriors who could overcome awesome odds and accomplish good.
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Rossini's tale of the quasi-mythic Assyrian queen Semiramis is buried in feathered headgear, tasselled parasols, bejewelled scabbards, beauty-pageant crowns and sashes, and swaths of scarlet and purple and teal.
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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. N.C.
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This enabled him, some years later, to create Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, a massive and massively popular entertainment that helped cement that mythic Western construct we still grapple with today.
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All is well until a newcomer shows up at the local diner: a mystery woman called Lioness Lazos, who proceeds to enrich and disrupt their lives in an almost mythic fashion.
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To capture the effect the story has had on the Indian imagination, photographer Vasantha Yogananthan has been documenting the mythic landscapes it describes along with theatrical portraits of its key moments.
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In his first novel for adults, "Doubtfire" (1967), Mr. Nye wove the story of Joan of Arc and mythic characters into the fantasy life of a teenager suffering an identity crisis.
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The Ox Ranch provides a glimpse into the future of the mythic Texas range — equal parts exotic game-hunting retreat, upscale outdoor adventure, and breeding and killing ground for exotic species.
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WASHINGTON — Thomas B. Hofeller achieved near-mythic status in the Republican Party as the Michelangelo of gerrymandering, the architect of partisan political maps that cemented the party's dominance across the country.
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Max Brod's original sin — the linchpin that launched Kafka's posthumous career and a thousand scholarly ones besides — has always possessed something of the uncanniness and mythic aura of Kafka's fiction itself.
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But instead of another painful serving of Grandma's Boy-style nonsense, Mythic Quest is legitimately good on its own merits, and one of the first big TV surprises of the year.
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Allison Janae Hamilton's multitudinous, mythic installation is intoxicating; it gorgeously envelops you in Southern landscape while simultaneously bringing to the surface the history of racial and classed exploitation in the region.
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OXON HILL, Md. — In an administration hardly five weeks old, Stephen K. Bannon's reputation has taken on almost mythic proportion as a fire-breathing populist, emerging power center, man of mystery.
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OR-54 was mythic not just for the vast distance she covered or her famous father: She is also believed to have killed several calves in Plumas County and surrounding areas.
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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.
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Magic: The Gathering Hall of Famer Lee Shi Tian wore a red face mask during a post-win interview at Magic's Mythic Championship this weekend and covered up his right eye.
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Lee's symbolic gestures during this year's Mythic Championship come after Activision Blizzard suspended Hearthstone player Chung "Blitzchung" Ng Wai for making pro-Hong Kong statements during a post-game live stream.
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This season, he collaborated with the Transformers franchise on prints, their robotic battle between good and evil no less mythic, in its way, than the Italianate fresco prints he also used.
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While many of the original Pokémon were based on common animals and mythic creatures, the more recent arrivals have taken inspiration from household appliances, desserts, climate change, and everything in between.
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The Tour de France's yellow jersey, first introduced in 1919 to advertise the race's sponsor, L'Auto, is now a "mythic object" that spawned the phrase "maillots jaunes": to lead the pack.
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From the album "Ghosteen," Nick Cave's magnificently sustained reverie on grief, family and eternity, comes this billowing waltz, a mythic vision that falls to earth and finds another way to ascend.
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The idea of starting in a garage has taken on a mythic status, to the point where some founders intentionally want to be able to say that they did it, too.
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But a parallel situation also manifested itself in Britain, and that is now the subject of "The Mythic Method: Classicism in British Art 1920-1950," the first exhibition of its kind.
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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.
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What's strange is hearing the quick, quirky banter against the backdrop of the movie's overarching plot — a mythic, swirling, Tolkien-esque epic involving ancient alliances, history, and the end of days.
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The pages had in recent years reached near mythic status, with many people coming to believe that they might reveal conclusive evidence of a link between Saudi Arabia and the attackers.
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We were shown McElhenney's character Ian Grimm, creative director for the company that makes Mythic Quest, presenting an in-fiction advertisement that restated all of the information McElhenney just told us.
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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.
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Rob McElhenney, and the creators of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia have partnered with Ubisoft to create a new comedy series about game development titled, Mythic Quest - Raven's Banquet #UbiE3 #E32019 pic.twitter.
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Though Pacino and De Niro both starred in The Godfather Part II, they had never shared a scene together onscreen before Heat, and that scene has acquired mythic status over the years.
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Metamorphoses Ovid's c is a foundational text of Western mythology that chronicles the mythic history of the world from the creation of the universe to the ascension of Julius Caesar to godhood.
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Mythic Quest is a video game-centric comedy starring McElhenney as Ian Grimm (that's pronounced EYE-an Grimm), the creative director behind the most popular online role-playing game in the world.
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If you know that series well then the dickish antics of Mythic Quest, which is set in a world where almost everyone's kind of terrible (but with heart!), should be instantly familiar.
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During the scene, the 42-year-old oversees Arthur (Charlie Hunnam) as he approaches the legendary tale's mythic sword before pulling it out, thus discovering his true destiny as the future king.
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After conducting exhaustive research and interviews, rather than attempting to replicate the dance hall as it was, Wickerham & Lomax envisioned the collective memory as it currently exists: a mythic, disco-laden haven.
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The mythic kingpin of the cutting edge died in February, aged 85, devastating the industry after his decades as head of legendary labels Fendi and Chanel as well as his eponymous brand.
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That also explains why Mythic, along with those other startups, are able to raise enormous rounds of money — which means there's going to be a lot of competition amongst all of them.
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The It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia star hit the stage at Ubisoft's presser this afternoon to show off a trailer from his upcoming ridiculously named Apple TV+ series, Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet.
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The direwolf is a near-mythic beast up north, and the houses still standing after the war against the White Walkers will surely bend the knee to Ghost when given the chance.
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Each painting in the exhibition is a delicate landscape, often suspended on a traditional curved horizon line — an element inspired by the gallery's architecture that lends the exquisite paintings a mythic quality.
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In their 1944 book Dialectic of Enlightenment, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno argue that basically all human society is based on a "mythic" fear of the natural forces which structure our environment.
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I read something that Kristen Stewart said the other day and it just knocked my socks off [about] this notion that celebrities or actresses — this idea of the mythic female, the untouchability.
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In the 6th Century BCE, Pythagoras calculated that the Earth was round; in the 5th, Parmenides postulated five climatic zones; in the 3rd, Aristotle hypothesized that a mythic southern continent must exist.
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Ms. von Bonin was one of the leading lights on the art scene of 17091s Cologne — whose low-rent hedonism has lately become as mythic as that of bankrupt 212609s New York.
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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.
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In those years, Mucha shifted away from commissioned posters that focused on the utility of products, to unbranded works of fine art dominated by images of women, some earthly and some mythic.
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Leah Miller was a designer at former MMO developer Mythic Entertainment for years, working on writing, content design, and systems design for Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.
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The endurance of the Royal Dansk brand is also owed somewhat to America's fetish with the concept of royalty, along with consumer fascination with an imagined, mythic Scandinavia where everything tastes better.
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Ms. von Bonin was one of the leading lights on the art scene of 1990s Cologne — whose low-rent hedonism has lately become as mythic as that of bankrupt 183s New York.
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Ms. von Bonin was one of the leading lights on the art scene of 1990s Cologne — whose low-rent hedonism has lately become as mythic as that of bankrupt 103s New York.
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Ms. von Bonin was one of the leading lights on the art scene of 1990s Cologne — whose low-rent hedonism has lately become as mythic as that of bankrupt 1970s New York.
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The Morning Show is a #MeToo-inspired prestige drama; Dickinson is an irreverent retelling of an American poet's life for the teen set; and Mythic Quest is a high-concept workplace comedy.
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So Giraldi had already written this novel, and I felt, like, it was nothing but lift underneath us: that we could really have supporters come together and make this insane mythic tale.
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The hanok, then, has come to represent a safe vessel for introspection and a reassertion of Korean identity: a romantic return to the national architecture and, therefore, to a mythic, prelapsarian age.
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With all this time tripping, the scenes leading up to the mythic destruction in 2004 B.C. and those from an archaeological dig in Babylon in 1903 are the most dramatically fleshed out.
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It has shaken an insular universe in which Mr. Williams, in life and after, was a mythic figure, revered for his knack with difficult horses and for churning out top-flight riders.
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The state's location in the Lower 48 is unmistakable — that slender peninsula at the bottom of the country, extended like the finger of some mythic Michelangelo figure reaching to touch the ineffable.
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And in a moment that has reached near mythic status in British history, a civilian fleet of yachts, tugs, steamers, ferries and the like raced across the Channel to rescue the men.
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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.
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Ms. von Bonin was one of the leading lights on the art scene of 263s Cologne — whose low-rent hedonism has lately become as mythic as that of bankrupt 1970s New York.
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His crowded scenes suggested conflict, or deep psychic distress, annotated in a forgotten hieroglyphic language or a proto-computer code, and set in a time that seemed at once mythic and contemporary.
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They both attended California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Los Angeles, the mythic university and birthplace of some of art history's most pivotal contemporary movements, from Fluxus to Light and Space.
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Spanning the years from 1941 to 2011 and set in isolated Radnorshire, Wales, this is a near-mythic account of the Hamer family, scratching out a life of farming at the margins.
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Far from the mythic "Never Trumper" deep state bureaucrat, Sondland is a multimillionaire hotel tycoon like Trump -- and greased his path to ambassadorship with a $1 million donation to the President's inauguration.
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It makes sense that the lore of the Disney vault reached its most mythic proportions in a time before big-screen movies could appear, in slightly altered forms, on people's personal devices.
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Ms. von Bonin was one of the leading lights on the art scene of 19103s Cologne — whose low-rent hedonism has lately become as mythic as that of bankrupt 1970s New York.
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Wabanaki origin stories tell of the mythic hero Glooscap shooting an arrow into a brown ash tree, and the Wabanaki people pouring out into the world from the hole in the trunk.
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For centuries the faithful have come here to wash away their sins at the spot where the Ganges and Yamuna rivers converge with the invisible and mythic tributary known as the Sarasvati.
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Her and people like Alicia Morgan(13), the ladies in Mythic and Derketa and Corinne (Acrostichon)really opened my eyes and taught me that ladies can rock just as hard as men!
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Season seven has been at its best when it pits characters the audience cares about against each other, rather than a mythic, CGI-assisted foe with unclear motivations and questionable javelin form.
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In all of these stories, it's clear that the mythic image of fatherhood has itself been used as a shield of protection by men looking to maintain their innocence and preserve their power.
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The movie's opening act on Themyscira is outsized and mythic, but once the story returns to Steve's familiar, grubby world, Wonder Woman seems like a surreal figure, a children's story brought to life.
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The revolt spread across the exhibition walls in the paintings and lithographs of Christine Schlegel, Cornelia Schleime, Karla Woisnitza and Angela Hampel as they tackled contemporary interpretations of mythic amazons and Greek princesses.
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" She added: "For decades, many male directors have benefitted from a type of romantic auteurism in the critical dialogue in which the filmmakers have been described in larger-than-life, almost mythic ways.
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During PAX East the Magic Pro League and a list of invitees gathered for the first Mythic Invitational, the recently created premiere event in Magic that carries with it a $250,000 Grand Prize.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — The American Southwest frequently appears in artist David Bradley's work as a fever dream of lived experiences, Native American histories, mythic figures, and classic stereotypes.
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Underneath these mythic themes, they paint gnarled landscapes in curdled monochromes or florid bursts of color, occasionally scraping off layers of splattered guitars to reveal the doomy drones holding the whole thing together.
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Hence, Eden flags—emblems for a notion of community so desirable but seemingly impossible that it's imaginable only in a mythic past, a time of origins, or the aftermath of an apocalyptic future.
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This is even truer for novels traversing well-worn fictional territory — like counterfactual World War II fantasies or tales featuring gender-bending female warriors, mythic creatures like golems and the medieval Khazar kingdom.
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On a bright morning, I went there to meet Jesús Correa, an employee at one of the funeral homes and one of the first people to appreciate the mythic quality of Escobar's life.
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Electronic Arts' "Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order" is a single-player game designed to evoke the same spirit of mythic adventure that inspired the first generation of "Star Wars" fans back in 1977.
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Electronic Arts' "Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order" is a single-player game designed to invoke the same spirit of mythic adventure that inspired the first generation of "Star Wars" fans back in 1977.
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The appeal of the vault—an actual, physical, long-locked space, deep in his mythic Paisley Park mansion—was never just new Prince songs, a few gems to pick out of the rubble.
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These facts make her an outlier—contemporaries like Joan Baez and Judy Collins made no equivalent lasting impact—and also transformed the Joni Mitchell of those early albums into an almost mythic figure.
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Each piece of artwork is a visual representation of Yosemite's mythic history, beginning in the late-19th century when it evovled from wild terrain to federally-protected (but no less wild) public land.
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Larry McMurtry, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning writer whose work often depicts gruff men of the mythic American West, said it was not unusual for some men to talk the way Mr. Trump did.
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But the real thrill came with the realization that Will Ferrell and Kerry Washington signed on to dutifully play sitcom characters who have been with TV fans so long they almost feel mythic.
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In her show Rapaciously Yours, at Richard Taittinger Gallery, by reworking the materials that typically signify her gender, she evokes models of femininity that are visually enticing but also strange, mythic, and untamable.
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Editorial Every time President Trump revamps his campaign promise to build that "tall, powerful, beautiful" wall along the Mexican border he sounds increasingly like a developer ruminating over the blueprints for mythic Xanadu.
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It is a variation on the mythic duality of Abel and Cain, or of the Prodigal Son and his brother: the favored son versus the dutiful one, the rule-breaker versus the conformist.
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In an age rife with the sleek and the minimal, papier-mâché ("chewed paper" in French), has less-than-mythic associations: It is homey and sloppy, redolent of kindergarten and the corner store.
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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.
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The mythic hero always grows into adulthood in the process of fulfilling his or her destiny, but seldom has the process been heavier, more tinged with regret, more earned than in Taran's story.
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This journey is captured in a series of mind-boggling contemporary pointillist drawings, in which Strand assiduously renders the landscapes and architecture of this mythic world in red- and blue-scale Radiograph pens.
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The orbs identify these columns as the mythic Pillars of Solomon, of interest to Johnson for their significance in Masonic lore, which includes both self-purification and the alchemical "purification" of lead into gold.
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But I can buy Horizon Zero Dawn and pass 40 hours across weeks exploring every last nook and cranny of its world and find something new and beautiful and mythic to capture every day.
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HANOI, Vietnam — A giant turtle, a mythic symbol of Vietnamese independence and longevity that had quietly paddled around Hanoi's central lake for decades — some say centuries — is dead, official state news media has reported.
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I mentioned Pong, but perhaps the one that seems the most impressive is its VR battle game called "Mythic Combat", which is like a fully realized version of the discus battle game from Tron.
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It was chronicled in lavish photo spreads in high-end fashion magazines and in paparazzi shots that appeared in the tabloids and on the gossip sites, as if to undercut the couple's mythic status.
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MONTREUX, Switzerland (Reuters) - Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp and Aerosmith's Joe Perry brought vintage rock to the mythic stage of the Montreux Jazz Festival on Thursday, performing as the Hollywood Vampires for a sellout crowd.
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By tying the dragon to elements of the contemporary everyday, WangShui highlights the slipperiness of legend, demonstrating how the mythic — including the futuristic — clashes with the realistic, expressed at a coded, almost clinical remove.
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But on Friday, three days after launching the blade, Epic pulled the "overpowered" weapon from the game — admitting it had failed to provide "good counters", and was "re-evaluating our approach to Mythic items".
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The result is something like if Siouxsie and the Banshees had been contemporaries of Spiritualized and Radiohead—surreal and mythic, stark and anxious, an album of paradox that gets more addictive with each play.
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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.
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Like pickpockets from the mythic School of the Seven Bells, Albany politicians have found infinite ways to quietly slip money out of the transit purse and put it toward propping up the state's books.
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But whether accounts of grisly battles of faeries from a misty, mythic past, or of a lost love of a mere seven decades ago, they are tales that only tighten their grip with repetition.
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By the 1970s, groups like the Aryan Nations had arrived, spinning out the idea of a mythic Cascadia where the old flames of racial purity would be kept alive and multiculturalism kept at bay.
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It seemed to suggest she had absorbed the Canadians' mythic inferiority complex, the one in which they define themselves by what they are not, and are generally ignored to go about their healthy business.
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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. Understood.
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The show — the gallery's first solely devoted to Ms. Piper — includes examples from the artist's "Mythic Being" series (1973–1975), which uses mediums like street performances and posters to explore personas that perpetuate stereotypes.
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Even now, more than three decades after the fact, his two most famous goals, both against England in the quarterfinals of the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, have lost none of their mythic power.
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Her prosperous family had lost its wealth before the Communists came to power, but the Empress Dowager Cixi—whose passion for Peking opera shaped her epoch's florid style—was a mythic figure to her.
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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.
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He's the mythic version of Jobs twisted and bent out of shape to reveal the fundamental bankruptcy of anybody who makes a living primarily by skimming cash off the top of other people's ledgers.
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On one hand, Mythic Quest has a chunk of the creative team from Sunny behind it, and two minutes at a video game conference is not the best place to land character-based jokes.
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Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, in his 1932 manifesto on fascism, makes his movement sound almost like a religion — a way for ordinary people to conceive of themselves as belonging to a world of mythic heroes.
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But even if you don't consider yourself spiritual, there are small things you can do to attain a mindful state in the morning, explains Jhenah Telyndru, priestess and author of The Mythic Moons of Avalon.
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According to the newly released files, the Feds did analysis on strange hairs of unknown origin for The Bigfoot Information Center and Exhibition (BIC)—a cryptozoological society devoted to studying the mythic beast—in 1976.
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Whether it's a typewriter, a mythic female Valkyrie, or a goldfish, Kuskov manages to bring a multidimensional perspective to his wide-ranging art practice, making him one of the leading figures in 3D art today.
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His mythic 50 States Project—an attempt to write an album about every state in the Union—was never really going to work out, but Stevens did seem to believe in it for a while.
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Jason Momoa stars as Baba Voss — the father of twins born centuries later with the mythic ability to see — who must protect his tribe against a powerful yet desperate queen who wants the twins destroyed.
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We are reminded that the images of difference generated by the performances were images not defined by ethnicity, and that the original Mythic Being series was as much about gender as it was about race.
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It took a lot of work to adapt synthetic Japanese open-source pop-star Hatsune Miku for her performance before the picky crowd at Berlin's mythic, ten-day long CTM and transmediale media art festivals.
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As a writer for Mythic Quest — where she's currently in the writer's room for the second season — Burch is one of the show's most experienced voices when it comes to the world of video games.
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As a writer for Mythic Quest — where she's currently in the writer's room for the second season — Burch is one of the show's most experienced voices when it comes to the world of video games.
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This epic story revolves around one Magic Johnson—earlier versions exist with a mythic character named Big O—who was a joyful and charismatic leader gifted with a playmaker's skills and a small forward's body.
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Mythic Markets, a young, San Francisco-based fractional investing platform for fans, has raised $13 million in seed funding led by Slow Ventures, with participation from Third Kind Venture Capital, Global Founders Capital and others.
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Apple also announced its live-action comedy that follows a team of video game developers, "Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet," has been renewed for a second season ahead of its global premiere date of February 7.
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Touted by Timothy Leary as the finest acid available, "the tiny orange pills quickly acquired near-mythic status," Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain wrote in "Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD" (230).
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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.
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In "Amazonas" (1970), white nipple-like protrusions ascend in rhythmic sequence across seven blue columns, a reference to the mythic warrior women's sacrifice of their right breasts in order to bolster their prowess as archers.
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The notoriously private Elena Ferrante (who uses a pen name) has taken on a kind of mythic quality in her elusiveness; her insistence on anonymity has turned her into something of a fictional character herself.
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Godbout's take on Diablo II also introduces a new category of "Mythic" gear, which combines a random set of stats from Unique items with "set" bonuses for equipping more than one piece at a time.
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It's also significant that Jimmie's character arc isn't centered around getting girls or getting money — common Black masculine stereotypes — instead what drives him is preserving a mythic connection to both his city and his family.
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She succeeded, and with a mix of grit and optimism, began a long campaign to salvage the Tiber banks, an area prone to human degradation and the frequent rise of this mythic but polluted river.
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"One of the missions of the Autry Museum is to expand that often narrow or mythic perception people have of the American West," Carolyn Brucken, the Autry's chief curator and director of research, told me.
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Like the drawings on view, the famous large sculptures that sealed her reputation, such as "Sky Cathedral" (28) and "Dawn's Wedding Chapel" (1959), achieve mythic atmospheres and tranquility through architectural densities, compounded infrastructures, and monochromatic silence.
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Technology has become our new god, and that tension between the old and the new drives a lot of the drama in American Gods, as these mythic figures battle for relevance and the attention of humanity.
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Epic announced this morning that its new and controversial Infinity Blade "mythic" item has been removed from Fortnite, following widespread criticism over the item's overpowered nature and game-breaking position as a pinnacle, late-game weapon.
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Alongside it will be The Mythic Being (221990–2215), for which Piper took on the persona of a macho man from a blaxploitation film, and "It's Just Art" (214), which questions our anesthetization to human suffering.
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A century later, neon is no longer just a sign; it is a mythic object—a metonymy of contemporary identity and a metaphor for the present, signifying the ubiquity of commerce and the tautology of hypermodernity.
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Purchased by Mr. Hefner in 1971 for about $1 million, the 29-room, five-acre estate (replete with a zoo license and year-round fireworks permit) now bears little resemblance in reality to its mythic reputation.
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Some of what she found in her study is admittedly pretty unsurprising: Military and veteran gamers often see game avatars as idealized versions of themselves, embodying a mythic goal for their own performance or self-image.
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Ms. Portman does her part with presence and persuasive stern looks, yet there's something missing from Mr. Garland's conception of Lena, whose mythic story bristles with dread but lacks the soul that might make you care.
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But he also cultivated an image as a modern-day Robin Hood, a mythic bandit extolled in ballads called narcocorridos and became known for carrying a diamond-encrusted pistol and an AK-47 plated in gold.
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Each image offers a glimpse into a reality so fantastical that it gives the viewer a little jolt to remember that these mythic tableaus feature actual flesh-and-blood, stick-and-sod occupants of the planet.
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So it's natural, then, to cringe when you hear of a show like Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet, an Apple TV comedy about a fictional video game studio that produces a World of Warcraft-esque online game.
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On Saturday, Will Ferrell officially joined Saturday Night Live's five-timer club: a mythic cabal of reoccurring SNL hosts from Tom Hanks to Justin Timberlake to the Rock who have hosted, yes, at least five times.
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Her depictions of these topics would define the rest of her career and help create a topical lexicon of American concerns, and her mythic compositions made from ordinary lives appear neither intentionally newsworthy nor artificially arranged.
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Early readers have described the book as having a mythic quality and she herself said that what she intended was to tell the story of many such girls through the fluent voice of one visionary girl.
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Mr. Trump carried this mythic posture through the primaries, where he said what other candidates never would, and into the Republican National Convention, where he told his supporters that he could do what they could not.
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Like Lucas, Kojima is inseparable from a beloved franchise, in Metal Gear Solid, that has achieved mythic status among fans; like Tarantino, he cheekily shows off his virtuosity through postmodern tricks of deconstruction and self-referentiality.
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The fact that so few details of this partnership have emerged, in no small part because Johns and Rauschenberg usually declined to talk about it, means that it has taken on a kind of mythic status.
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It is the simplest of stories, yet the combination of (literally) brilliant visual effects and Saariaho's haunting score turns the paper-thin plot into a tale of mythic proportions, with the scope of Tristan und Isolde.
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Ubisoft is a video game company, so it was a little odd when It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia creator Rob McElhenney walked onstage at its E3 press conference and announced a new television show: Mythic Quest.
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The film has mythic status, hardly harmed and probably boosted by the fact that London Weekend Television, which was due to show it, dropped it at the last minute after its governors got word of its contents.
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It's a credit once again to the Mythic Quest writer's room that even with just five hours to weave a story, every main character feels fully realized and more complex than their one-dimensional first impressions suggest.
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The 55-year-old former congressman from Kansas has deftly navigated the chaos atop the executive branch to position himself as the Trump administration's unicorn—the almost mythic figure who has lasted inside the president's inner circle.
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One notable example includes the most recent Winter Skirmish tournament series, in which the over-powered Infinity Blade mythic item became a controversial and game-breaking weapon due to its mobility, destructive nature, and health regeneration capabilities.
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At the core of this new venture is the Magic Pro League, which will include 32 of the world's best players, competing in a series of weekly match-ups as well as major tournaments, called Mythic Championships.
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The Inner Scar (23), starring Nico and Pierre Clementi and featuring music that would eventually be compiled on Nico's album Desertshore, heightens the mythic lyricism of what came before, but also signals a new phase for Garrel.
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Another huge financing round is coming in for an AI company today, this time for a startup called Mythic getting a fresh $40 million as it appears massive deals are closing left and right in the sector.
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David Bowie, 1947-2016 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.
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Both sons were released after negotiations brokered by Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, a respected elder, whose wealth, influence and ability to evade arrest throughout a five-decade career have earned him the same mythic status as Guzmán.
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The film will touch on "themes of love and loss, loneliness and family and the inexorable passage of time" and will evoke "the American West—both the mythic and the hardscrabble," Warner Brothers shared in a statement.
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Most notable among them was Jack Maple, a quick-talking, up-from-the-bottom transit cop who wore double-breasted suits, homburg hats, and two-tone shoes and has become a near-mythic figure in police circles.
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The New York Times reported on Thursday that the estranged daughter of Thomas Hofeller, the GOP operative who had "achieved near-mythic status in the Republican Party as the Michelangelo of gerrymandering," had discovered some hard drives.
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This program at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will pair this classic 1966 animated film — about the "Peanuts" characters and a mythic figure to rival Santa Claus — with a score played live by the Rob Schwimmer Ensemble.
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Then it also wrote that its intention with adding a mythic tier of items to Fortnite is to provide "new and flavorful ways to interact with the map and generally shake up normal play across default modes".
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A gold necklace with a cross from Cyprus and carved ivory objects representing mythic scenes of Dionysus, on display in the show's galleries, were gifts to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1917 from J. Pierpont Morgan.
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In the new "Shuffle Along," Wolfe has Audra McDonald's character, Lottie Gee, reminisce at one point over having shared the stage with Aida Overton Walker and a piece of singing advice she received from this mythic woman.
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Now, a startup called Mythic (formerly known as Isocline) is launching a chip and software that will change all that, putting voice control, computer vision and other kinds of AI into our devices locally, no cloud required.
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The first such meeting, before a match in 2012 against the Faroe Islands, once one of Iceland's main competitors, has achieved the mythic "I was there" significance of the Sex Pistols' seminal appearance in Manchester in 1976.
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For its part, Mythic is focusing on pop culture collectibles, starting with an Alpha Black Lotus, a trading card that only fanatics of the game "Magic the Gathering" might recognize but is apparently worth $90,000 right now.
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The characters are less mythic "horseman cowboy" and more maudlin grad-student cowboy whose woman is leaving him: an interesting revision of a tired Western plot, maybe, but not when it's mostly the result of self-absorption.
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In Joseph Donahue's Wind Maps I-VII we are led out of sleep by the poet, just as he has been led out of sleep by a dream guide, into a renewal of mythic or storied truth.
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In fact I think it disrespects the character of Luke by treating him not as a true mythic hero overcoming recurring wounds & flaws, but as a video game character who has achieved a binary, permanent power-up.
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While Christian nationalism was only one of many forms of nationalism on display in Charlottesville, Christian nationalism is, as ever, a fundamentally white phenomenon, rooted in a mythic privileging of the idealized past of "white," great America.
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This has been the plan for ages, a means of transferring Lesnar's reputation to Reigns via the mythic wrestling laws of heat transference: by vanquishing someone else, you vanquish all the people he or she has vanquished.
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Viacom, which has never had sports rights, has been harder hit by ratings declines, which was partly the Redstones' motivation to combine it with CBS, which has a stronger viewership thanks to Moonves's near-mythic programming prowess.
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" Suzanne Ruta, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called that book "a work of self-conscious brilliance," adding: "The novel's stylized, picturesque reduction of class and racial conflict to two mythic families has been done before.
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Way before its official release just last month, Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan—an African action role-playing game about a mythic black hero—was lauded for its originality and country-specific nature by the international press.
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The Taylor Swift album had "Cold as You," Fearless had "White Horse," Speak Now gave us "Dear John" (which was allegedly about John Mayer), Red had "All Too Well," which is mythic by Swiftie standards and rarely performed.
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Mythic Quest on Apple TV+ is a lot of things, but nothing captures the spirit of the series from creators Rob McElhenney, Megan Ganz, and Charlie Day quite as powerfully as the midpoint episode of its first season.
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Take, for instance, this, on a story about Theo Epstein on the eve of the Chicago Cubs winning their first World Series since 1908: OK. So, first we've got the "theology" word play, due to Epstein's mythic reputation.
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Writing through the eyes of childhood, Mr. Clark describes the old-timer in almost mythic terms as "a drifter and a driller of oil wells, and an old-school man of the world" who is confronting his mortality.
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You would think it would be enough to have them — whomever this mythic "them" may be — don sackcloth and ashes and sneak around in the shadows so no one could identify them by the uniform of their profession.
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That tour, on which Mr. Dylan was backed up by musicians who became the Band, has attained almost mythic status as a tableau of confrontation, as Mr. Dylan's folk fans rejected his embrace of electric rock 'n' roll.
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She uses the stories of artists Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Grace Hartigan, and Helen Frankenthaler as a kaleidoscope that both segments and weaves together a comprehensive history of the New York School's most mythic heroines.
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Pierce lived to torment the Bockers, the NBA's most persistently pathetic high valuation franchise, seeming to feed off the contrived mythic energy of Madison Square Garden, no matter how good or bad the Knicks were at the time.
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You can add the Avalanches to that perpetually growing list, too—an Australian DJ/production collective whose nearly total silence since their debut, 2001's classic Since I Left You, contributed a mythic aura to their long absence.
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Jason Momoa stars as Baba Voss, the father of twins born centuries later with the mythic ability to see—who must protect his tribe against a powerful yet desperate queen who believes it's witchcraft and wants them destroyed.
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In the last few years at the BBC Proms, where his annual concerts had taken on a mythic attraction, he led evenings of Dukas, Turnage, Schuller and Scriabin; Henze, Stravinsky and Tippett; Honegger, Bridge, Berg, Castiglioni and Debussy.
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In spare, shining language that was reminiscent of Hemingway's, Raymond Carver's and Jayne Anne Phillips's, it depicted the lives of a series of grievous angels — junkies, drifters, no-hopers, the almost comically damned — and gave them mythic dimension.
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Even so, Zellweger is solid in a movie that derives its force from its central mythic figure and your own Yellow Brick Road memories: the Hollywood supernova with the inner-child vaudevillian named Frances Ethel Gumm, a.k.a. Baby.
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Where the rest of "Mythic Quest" is a broad comedy (with the aforementioned likable characters and surprising plot), "A Dark Quiet Death" is more of a drama that quietly — but agonizingly — portrays the tensions between commerce and art.
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In the first act of "Donnerstag," after the trials of early youth, Michael auditions to enter the "advanced school of music," in front of jurors who are versions of Eve and Lucifer, the cycle's other primary mythic figures.
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The NASA engineer basically saved the Skylab program through some ingenuity with a parasol-type device, and when the Times got the notice of this seemingly mythic claim, they were able to back it up with archival clips.
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It fulfills authentic needs — for meaningfulness, for a sense of structure — by providing adherents with a sense of their own "specialness" in a mythic narrative created for them, a specialness further intensified by the highly eroticized thrill of transgression.
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And there are also a large number of very well-funded startups exploring customized AI hardware, including Cerebras Systems, SambaNova Systems, Mythic, and Graphcore (and that isn't even getting into the large amount of activity coming out of China).
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I think that his reputation had suffered in the glare of Robert Mapplethorpe's mythic reputation, but as I said before, I really believe they were contemporaries—not just because they lived ten blocks apart and photographed similar subject matter.
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The unmean streets around Midtown High School are far from the mythic Krypton-to-Smallville-to-Metropolis world of Superman, or the plutocratic privilege of Batman; but that distance makes Spider-Man closer, and more relatable, to his fans.
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Films such as "White Zombie" (1932) and "I Walked With a Zombie"(1943) took the reality of exploited labor in the Caribbean and manufactured a mythic figure at the center of a horror genre still very much with us.
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Earlier this year, the benchmark price for fine Australian merino wool gained a foothold above the once mythic A$20/kg (about $6.60/lb) price, as one of Australia's worst-ever droughts leaves farmers struggling to keep flocks fed.
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Loki's role in the festivities has faded in and out of mainstream thought, but some Pagans and self-described Heathens actually refer to April Fool's Day as Loki's Day or Lokiblót, and spend the day celebrating the mythic trickster.
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But for all the clumsy obviousness of the implied parable—an individual virtuoso ditches communism's dead-end and literally hops into the fucking Cadillac that will take him to fame and wealth in America—the mythic element fit Ordóñez.
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What the last two weeks of the Espy and Hyde-Smith campaign demonstrated is that Mississippi cannot let go of a mythic vision of itself; it ignores the hard truths about its past, particularly when it comes to race.
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By focussing on meetings that President Lincoln had with lesser-known figures, such as John Ross, chief of the Cherokee, this history aims at deconstructing Lincoln's mythic reputation as the Great Emancipator to arrive at a more nuanced view.
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One challenge presented by the mythic Trojan origins of the Roman people was that the Trojans lost their great war; reshaping his source material, Virgil found a way to transform a story about losers into an epic about winners.
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There are mythic overtones to that image, as there are in "Iris," in which a bright-yellow banana oriented like a smile rhymes with a small white dome shape above that's like a clipped moon in the night sky.
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The story of her life as she told it was wholesomely American, drenched in nostalgia: a father who worked shifts and a mother who stayed home, an almost mythic account of self-reliance, of moderation, of working-class contentment.
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But after Republicans swept many state legislative elections in 21980, giving them control over the political maps that would be drawn after that year's census, Mr. Hofeller gained an almost mythic reputation as an architect of the party's comeback.
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The original story has a macabre, mythic grandeur and shares motifs with the tale of Medea, who murders her children, and of Philomela, who serves up her sister Procne's son to his father as revenge for his raping her.
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The promise of a 5G network seems almost mythic in comparison—a leap of perhaps a hundredfold over 4G speeds, with virtually no latency and the ability to connect an astonishing number of devices and sensors to the network.
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For the most part Rupert's voice works; he's explicitly talking to the presumed reader, the non-Malaysians consuming this English-language tale, and the constant breaking of the fourth wall enhances a mythic feel for this otherwise gritty tale.
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The three books Mr. Latchford has written with Ms. Bunker display hundreds of Khmer items — deities, mythic creatures and royal treasures in sandstone, gold and bronze — that are as unique and valuable as any found in Cambodia's national museum.
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The panels narrate the history of the Hopi people, from mythic beginnings, through to the arrival of Europeans and Christianity, as depicted in the Pueblo Revolt, to the rebirth and reintroduction of Hopi art and traditions in contemporary society.
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It isn't as colossal as Beverly Semmes's "Blue Gowns" (1993), but the three-dimensional puff of the wedding dress makes it less of a mythic symbol and more of a harsh reality from that same world Semmes was pulling from.
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While its regal title might be Nevelson's sly autobiographical nod to her self-professed status as the monarch in her own expansive artistic domain, the picture's force comes from its penetrating mythic textures, as distanced from history as a sphinx.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)So at the conclusion of this particular quest, while the SliceCharge doesn't quite fully deliver on the legend of the mythic AirPower, it is a simpler alternative to putting three individual wireless charging pads on your nightstand.
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I think that New York is built a great deal on the nostalgia of the period that [one] just narrowly missed, and I think that's what attracts people to coming there—the mythic notion of what New York has been.
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The central metaphor of capitalism as death was so abstract, and the mythic characters so much better as archetypes than as psychologically distinct human beings, that I worried literalizing the whole thing by putting it onstage would break everything to pieces.
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This mythic organization the homintern could forge alliances across national boundaries or class boundaries, for example, and make a kind of alternative realm of existence for people who were forced to live their lives in very confined and secretive ways.
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Tune in as I head over to n/naka to speak to chef Nakayama, her life-partner and sous-chef Carole Iida-Nakayama, and renowned forager Pascal Baudar as we explore the past, present, and future of this mythic culinary tradition.
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The two mythic beings have the character-defining philosophical battle of the movie, and then he slips in a declaration that makes Diana question everything she was ever taught: She is the daughter of Zeus, the king of the gods.
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Yet they share a profound political sixth sense: a recognition of how a partly mythic and glorious national past can serve as an antidote to the grim political crises clawing at the two flagship nations of the English-speaking world.
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Into that traditional story Virgil cannily inserted a number of showstopping glimpses into Rome's future military and political triumphs, complete with cameo appearances by Augustus himself—the implication being that the real-life empire arose from a god-kissed mythic past.
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Read more: 3 unanswered questions from the first 'Frozen' movie the new sequel will address"We got a lot of feedback from each other while talking about [the story] and the pressure Elsa feels [as] a mythic character," Lee said.
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No matter their moments of excess, these shows — and I've seen many earlier versions of them all — are simply fun to watch in ways they must have been when they were young, fresh and unburdened by the weight of mythic stature.
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Perhaps Ms. Mendelsohn wanted to underscore the mythic aspects of her story (the fall of the House of Atreus, etc.), but her hyperventilated writing instead has the perverse effect of making her characters' lives seem puny and etiolated in contrast.
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When I asked some acquaintances where I could find live cumbia, most of them directed me here, to the area where mythic Chacmool statues can be found, where informal commerce dominates, and where you'll find sweet shops and tacos or gorditas.
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The film's highly stylized aesthetic was inspired by the color scheme of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), which Argento also drew on for its mythic tone and its presentation of a young, virginal heroine surrounded by evil.
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Maybe we give too much credit to the idea that the 2016 Indians were just a single good swing away from being World Champions—a quasi-mythic standard that elides the team's flaws for the sake of a good story.
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There's something really fascinating about the fact that for most of its history, [the modern celebration of] Christmas as we know it, which technically only dates from about 1820, has been steeped in this non-geographical, non-temporal, mythic snowy past.
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There was a menagerie of genetically modified leopard prints, including a group of beaded leopard pantsuits in lurid shades of lipstick red and lime (the mythic cats presumably roam the streets of Los Angeles late at night, stalking their prey).
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He draws on old movies, comic books, mythic archetypes and his own restless visual imagination to create movies that seem less made than discovered, as if he had plucked them from the cultural ether and given them color, voice and form.
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But great horror movies — including those that Lobo's film recalls, like Bob Clark's 1974 classic "Black Christmas" — find ways to make characters a part of the visual experience, using costume design, casting and more to raise simple archetypes to mythic proportions.
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He probably maintained his point guard-ness more than most in his mythic tranche, but even for Magic, size was more about the ability to do many things than the chance to be the tallest human doing a particular thing.
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Yet the villagers of La Higuera, Bolivia, who lived through that time, tell a story that is far less mythic, describing a short, bloody episode where a forgotten corner of this mountainous countryside briefly became a battleground of the Cold War.
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Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac, PC, Linux Price: $24.99 Journey Who it's for or why it's perfect: A connection to the mythic, with the life-affirming sense of awe, wonder, and humanity that comes with ancient storytelling.
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The property owners have the support of many Texas politicians in a state where land ownership has an almost mythic resonance, and their opposition to a border wall could delay any construction by years while lawsuits wind through the court system.
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The universe of his series "The Rediscovery of Man," set tens of thousands of years from now, offers a future rich in symbols and dreams, where technology has irrevocably altered the mythic underpinnings of what it means to be human.
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Neither Kobe's on-court achievements nor his having played his entire career for the Lakers, the nexus of the basketball universe, fully explain the mythic stature he acquired during his career, and which his early death seems certain to crystallize.
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During this mythic voyage of bravery, folly and — ultimately — horror, Scott and his colleagues hauled heavy sleds over glaciers and mountains, only to find that Roald Amundsen, a more savvy explorer, had arrived at the South Pole several weeks earlier.
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Yet his muscular, mythic verse made him without question one of the greatest poets of the 20th century -- and the deep sympathy for female desire that I sense in his poems like "Tales from Ovid" has enriched my life profoundly.
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Ellison was later much impressed by Lord Raglan's analysis of the hero in mythic tradition, and it is perhaps too easy to say that becoming an orphan, in the way of the archetypal hero, shook him out of his reverie.
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And she knows that when characters like those of "Shipwreck" are faced with what seems inexplicable to them, their so-called enlightened minds may find themselves wandering into primal, mythic realms — where there be dragons and demons and amoral Dionysiac gods.
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But by failing to engage with any of them, Peterson reduces what's a very complex matter of biblical interpretation — one that involves Genesis 1, as a text, in dialogue and opposition to other ancient Near Eastern creation myths — to a vague mythic archetype.
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This Saturday marks the long-awaited return of MMA's first and arguably only true genius, of a mythic, superhuman figure who could defy physical laws and redefine anatomical possibility but who tumbled down to earth by committing the most human of sins.
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Still, it's hardly a stretch to see that Tillerson must have impressed Trump as someone much like himself -- a stunningly successful corporate executive with mythic business success on a global scale, or to use the President-elect's words a world-class player.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In downtown theater auteur Richard Maxwell's musical The Good Samaritans, revived at Abrons Art Center in New York from February 8 to 25, his characteristic style of acting, emphasis on social themes and mythic inclinations triumph.
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"The water was a kind of embarrassing secret, the unloved daughter, neglected, while the parks were doted on, fussed over, overused," muses the narrator of Teju Cole's novel "Open City" (2011), about Manhattan, an island, one of America's mythic ports of entry.
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Zadeh thinks Apple is doing something similar with the launch of Core ML. Meanwhile startups like Deep Vision and Mythic have been working on processors that could be plunked into smaller devices, as opposed to data centers, where Google's TPUs are located.
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But whatever type of lesson Aronofsky was trying to tell in exploring these deep and mythic themes, he adds a very serious layer of confusion by using a psychodrama about a marriage wracked by gender inequality as the literal level of the story.
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At its most constrained, the event attracted as many as 300 people, who gathered not only for the kind of ecumenical fellowship rarely found in the modern world outside an A.A. meeting, but, above all, to experience Mr. Schjeldahl's mythic, untamed fireworks.
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The allusion is more ritualistic nod than anything else, and there's little otherwise in "The Equalizer 2" that connects it to "The Searchers" other than the bluntly obvious: the near-mythic status of its stars and our very American love of violence.
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The sole unnamed character in the novel (a fact that emphasizes her mythic status and role as an "Everywoman"), she survives in a future post-civil-war society in the wilds of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, eking out an existence however she can.
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The right-handed Gibson was the folk hero, all staggering physique and tall-tale feats; he swung a 40-ounce bat alleged to have once sent a homer 580 feet out of Yankee Stadium, besting Mickey Mantle's quasi-mythic 565-foot blast.
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Such a mythic site was a siren song to Horton and her family members, a bohemian tribe reminiscent of the British expatriates in Italy gently teased by E.M. Forster in "A Room With a View": intrepid, culturally voracious and joyously out of bounds.
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Two books of "Préludes," each with a cryptic title affixed to the final bar, range from slow, graceful dances to sultry nocturnal serenades to images of footsteps in snow, gardens in the rain, and to the evocation of a mythic underwater cathedral.
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From a distance, the high-gloss, virtuosic enamel paintings look like Thomas Kinkade landscapes mixed with Hieronymus Bosch scenarios: pretty, anodyne landscapes peppered with apocalyptic micro-hells in which mythic demons cribbed from traditions in Mr. Shaw's native Kashmir battle with contemporary humans.
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In Fady Joudah's "The Scream," an ordinary morning in the life of a parent dropping his son off at school assumes mythic proportions: A typical altercation between two kindergartners escalates into a conflict as elemental and disturbing as the parables in Genesis.
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Narratively, Astral Chain draws openly and often from sci-fi anime staples like Neon Genesis Evangelion and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, but (despite trying) can summon neither the former's sense of psycho-mythic dread nor the latter's sharp procedural storytelling.
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The creation of a "stable coin," a cryptocurrency that can hold its value and be used as a digital stand-in for the US dollar, has long been seen as an innovation as fantastical and mythic as the holy grail of Arthurian legend.
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The nine-episode first season, now streaming on Apple TV Plus, follows Ian Grimm (Rob McElhenney), creative director of the wildly popular online role-playing game Mythic Quest, and his fellow developers as they prepare to release their first big expansion, Raven's Banquet.
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Around Town In the late 1970s, The Village Voice sent a young Bill Bernstein to shoot a ceremony honoring President Jimmy Carter's mother, Lillian, at Studio 54, and he left with the first of his images, now mythic, of disco at its peak.
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In the 1960s, the Ugly American became a mythic figure in Europe as loud Midwesterners who wore shorts and Hawaiian shirts disturbed the serenity of the Louvre and were thrown out of Parisian restaurants for asking for Coca-Cola instead of ordering wine.
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A shy ache for 1980, a year when a literary theorist could take on the mythic, larger-than-life quality of great novelistic characters, is what it's never too late (although maybe a little embarrassing) to feel, however vanished that world is.
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Ana Gasteyer: Sugar and Booze (Henry's Girl) Christmas is a good subject for musical comedy because it comes with a sackful of mythic tropes that are usually at least silly when they're not drawn directly from childhood: elves, grinches, babies in Bethlehem.
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Zapata grew up in Mexico City, drinking tequila-and-Sprite to give himself nerve when he went out to the clubs; as he grew older, he took road trips to Oaxaca, in search of something authentic, mythic, and cool, and found mezcal.
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Hamilton's immersive installation allows visitors to wrestle with a mysterious land, its racial realities, and its mythic past, but also affords many the luxury — unavailable to those who live it — to extricate themselves from that struggle when it becomes too much to bear.
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Mythic Quest is about a fictional game studio that makes one of the largest massively multiplayer RPGs on the planet (think World of Warcraft), and McElhenney explained that the plot is going to be centered on the launch of their newest expansion.
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