The Myth Of Stars 06.12.02 Movie stars are absolutely necessary to launch a hit picture.
Despite our best efforts, the whole process of applying has become part of the myth too.
For instance, Paralympic athletes explode the myth that disabled people are physically frail and passive.
It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.
Popular Mexican songs, called narcocorridos, embellish the myth of the poorly educated but charismatic cartel leader.
The consequences of the myth of "the great heroic general" have been dire, he says.
This reinforced the myth of the best practice, and stimulated it to spread and persist.
As counterpoint to this argument, I deconstruct the myth of China as a superpower.
This is how they perpetuate the myth of women as victims in need of government protection.
See my previous blog, the myth of a shareholder spring, for more on this.
Here's the myth: None of this would have happened if certain "systems" were maintained properly.
The team also wanted to dispel the myth that the battle was merely Scotland versus England.
Actually, those New England town meetings were a far cry from the myth they inspired.
Brazil's President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a sociologist, has always questioned the myth of racial democracy.
Agencies did little to suppress the myth of disaster victims dependent on external aid to survive.
Markoff, he said, single-handedly created the myth of Kevin Mitnick, which everyone is using to advance their own agendas.
Democratic folklore includes the myth that the Clinton tax increases led to the 1990s boom.
Embargo-lifters believe the myth that trade and "engagement" with the West brought down the Soviet Union.
But to me the life of DiMaggio was always more interesting than the myth.
Among them, economist Doug Guthrie, who tried to debunk the myth of a hard landing.
They will thank him for freeing us all, finally, from the myth of peace with terrorists.
But the myth that the Boers were the sole victims of the war is now being challenged.
She says American culture has adopted the myth that Asians are smarter and harder-working than other minorities.
CNN: Push to achieve tied to suicide in Asian-American women
The myth of bigger is better makes for a nice sound bite, but is rarely the case.
But in rebutting the myth that he was a simpleton or a chameleon, she underplays his contradictions.
Kaiser puts an astute mind to dissipating the myth that state intervention possibly can lead to prosperity.
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So much for the myth that larger spending on player costs automatically translates into victory on the field.
Do personal finance books written by women for women perpetuate the myth that women are bad with money?
Harris says free-market capitalism needs a "transformative myth of its own" to fight the myth of revolutionary socialism.
No American need be lectured about the ARA. Americans love cars and love driving, so the myth goes.
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