21. In the meantime, however, cloning had captured the popular imagination. 22. In the popular imagination, Arab-Americans suffer terribly. 23. In the popular imagination, the West used to be a wilderness of endless possibility and freedom, conquered by brave white men. 24. In the popular imagination, American Indians have usually been defined in the past tense. 25. In the popular imagination, Helen Gurley Brown is a Holly Golightly character, an insouciant cutie-pie, existentially concerned with having a good time. 26. In the popular imagination, Hawaii is Camp Paradise, a dreamy, kitschy blend of palm trees, leis, parasol drinks and pricey, hyperpigmented shirts. 27. In the popular imagination, he remains the high-strung, perfectionist French chef par excellence, the kind who virtually dares diners to send a dish back. 28. It is hard to recall at this distance the hold these two fighters held over the popular imagination, even among people who had no interest in boxing. 29. Jesus, in popular imagination, was a martyr to love or the victim of authority or what have you. 30. Love in the Western world has come to mean, in the popular imagination, romantic love almost exclusively. |