In both cases an overwhelming scholarly consensus, based on a serious assessment of hard evidence, is challenged by passionately held fantasies whose adherents demand equal time.
Others held fantasies of the new hall becoming "what the Temple was to Jerusalem, the Parthenon to Athens, or St Peter's to modern Rome," writes Philip Lopate in an essay in "BAM: The Complete Works", a new book edited by Steven Serafin.
(Among other things, "Nurse Betty" is about the power of fiercely held fantasies to involve others.) As Betty arrives in Los Angeles, lands herself a job at a hospital through astounding luck, then meets and charms the actor who plays Ravell, the movie cuts back to the killers tracking her down along with the stash of drugs she is unwittingly carrying in the trunk of the car.
You devoted a chapter of your book to strange places to hold fantasy drafts.
There are several smaller pileups throughout "Fantasy" — the posse cuts "Monster" and "So Appalled," among others — and while they don't hold "Fantasy" back as an album, they do mean that many of its great moments aren't strictly speaking Mr. West's.
Many of these beleaguered white men hold fantasies, like radio nut-jock Alex Jones, of picking up the gun to fight a tyrannical central government.
When the Colorado Rockies held their fantasy football league draft last month, it was no surprise who Seth Smith, the outfielder who was once the backup to Eli Manning at the University of Mississippi, wanted as his quarterback.
Muscular übermenschen like Rambo or Schwarzenegger certainly held a fantasy appeal, but McClane felt like a reasonable facsimile of who I might actually become, should I ever find myself trapped in an L.A. high-rise with a bunch of bespoke-suit-wearing European terrorists.
Dystopian sci-fi The Hunger Games has held off fantasy sequel Wrath of the Titans to retain pole position in the UK and Ireland box office chart.
Curiosity about such types has perhaps been fuelled by the amazing grip on modern culture still held by fantasy-jocks such as JRR Tolkien and JK Rowling.
