Secondly, the specific image of the persecuted human fleeing from his tormentors is an all too familiar archetype of pogroms and persecutions.

Ms. Kurtz, however, consistently scores personal points off familiar archetypes, bringing devilish spark to both the flat-chested Myra and the missile-breasted Myrna.

It was on television during the 1950's that Mr. Hope refined the most familiar comedic archetype, the chipper living-room host.

As a prison poet, a man whose creative spirit was set free by his body's confinement, Mr. Booker is in some ways a familiar American archetype.

The homes were offered in a number of archetypes familiar to American public - the farmhouse, town house, cottage, and bungalow, among others.

Mr. Kring decided he could use the familiar archetypes of sudden superpowers as long as he ensured "it was about the characters and how it affected them."

As the buxom, right-wing Myrna and the flat-chested, left-wing Myra, Ms. Kurtz scores personal, devilish points off familiar archetypes, and what she does with a simple straitjacket is a marvel.

He is instead a legendary blues musician who has reached the end of the line - a familiar archetype from fiction as well as fact.

The beneficiaries of Mickey's wit and wisdom cover a range of familiar archetypes.

"Rope Burns" is inhabited by cynical and sentimental trainers, heroic boxers and slimy promoters, familiar archetypes flavored with Mr. Boyd's ring-savvy, story structure and use of dialect.