Word: legend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actor prepares. Thanks, Steve. Now folks, let me ask you: What becomes a legend most? That's right. Disappearing. You remember, after Ghostbusters and The Razor's Edge, Bill vamoosed to Paris with his family. Took courses at the Sorbonne -- that's French for Harvard and Yale put together. He did a great cameo in Little Shop of Horrors, but otherwise, for four years Bill was J.D. Showbiz Salinger. And we're sorry to say that Bill couldn't be here tonight. Maybe he thought this was a roast and not a toast. He can be a suspicious...
...category. Excavating on Turkey's Aegean coast, the amateur German archaeologist unearthed some ancient ruins and declared them to be all that was left of the Troy celebrated in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. But the remains always seemed, even to Schliemann, a bit puny for so outsize a legend...
Perhaps the emptiest void to be filled--or at least the most noticeable--is the one left by goalie Sarah Leary, a first-team All-Ivy selection, two-time All-American and Harvard legend...
...bookstores have always been the cornerstones of Harvard Square life. The legend is true--there are more bookstores per square foot here than in any other neighborhood in America. We have the nation's biggest poetry bookstore (Grolier's) and the largest foreign bookstore (Schoenhof's). We also have a few chain bookstores that can be found in any suburban mall...
...Raoul can never be much more than a Parisian Freddy Eynsford-Hill. And yet -- in the magnificent Lloyd Webber version, the appealing Yeston-Kopit or even the lame Ken Hill -- the story works. The Phantom and Christine sing ) their volcanic sentiments in a plot as spare and potent as legend...