Word: legend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foolish, all this talk of Ted Kennedy for President [Sept. 17]. The only thing Kennedy has going for him is the name. Why don't we put this legend behind us and stop thinking of the Kennedys as our saviors? We have a decent, hard-working President in Jimmy Carter, and we should be thankful...
LuPone is incendiary as Eva, but she seems to burn with the borrowed fuel of the legend rather than internal charismatic combustion. As Perón, Gunton subtly alternates the wariness of a man walking through a political minefield with the sweaty lust for power engendered by his pint-size Lady Macbeth...
However, what may prove to be the crucial difference in the two is the attitude of the teams: The Reds, under fire by the Cincinnati press for the dismissal of popular Manager Sparky Anderson and the loss of living legend Peter Rose, who played out his option and signed with Philadelphia, play conservative, defensive baseball. The Pirates, on the other hand, have assumed the personality of their leader, Willie Stargell. Stargell, 38, is the heart and soul of the team. It was he who kept the younger members of the team loose all year with his clubhouse clowning...
Gold! It has again become the stuff of greedy legend. Once coveted by kings as a gift from the gods, guarded by dragons, bloodily pursued by conquistadors and hapless Forty-Niners, it is sought today as the world's safest and most dramatically rewarding investment in what seems to be a steadily sinking world economy...
...must have been a stunt double who wrote that item about me and The Legend of Walks Far Woman [Sept. 3] The truth is that I have done most of my own stunt work, much more than the insurance company would have liked, suffering numerous injuries in the process...