1.   And since jazz music is at the center of the American mythology, it necessarily deals with race.

2.   And the red Explorer will acquire a place in American political mythology.

3.   But if Lincoln is a god and was in fact a white man, does Parks, as an African-American woman, feel excluded from this American mythology?

4.   Long before Martha Stewart arrived on the scene, tidy rooms and spotless floors became landmarks in the American mythology.

5.   Not only did Pheidippides transcend Greek mythology to become an icon of American sporting mythology, but he made such sneaker creepers as Michael Jordan and Andre Agassi rich.

6.   Remove all the political underpinnings and the Kennedys still occupy a unique, inexplicable place in American mythology.

7.   Reflecting on this particular piece of American mythology, I was impressed by some recent news about families, parenting and pathologies.

8.   The public, tired of avant-garde arrogance, is happy to find American mythology directed toward its proper home, which is grand opera.

9.   The sharp-shooting rifleman has long been canonized in American mythology.

10.   Yet this is not the slavery of American mythology.