Word: legend
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Retired farmer James Law ('14) of Stuart, Iowa, sat in his wheelchair relishing the stories of playing on an undefeated football team and knowing the greatest school legend of all time: sprinter Chuck Hoyt ('14). Hoyt learned to run chasing ponies on his farm. "He was all legs," chuckled Law. Some legs. Hoyt took his first train ride when he was 14, to the University of Chicago's Stagg Field, swept the 100-m and 220-m dashes. He was asked to be on the 1912 Olympic team, but his widowed mother needed him home. Besides, she insisted...
...David Lynch circus is back. While Mark Frost is happy to leave the town he helped make a prime-time legend, his ex-partner is still living there, with all the warped ingenuousness of a rural kid who tells his friends, "Let's put the freak show on right here! Again!" TWIN PEAKS FIRE WALK WITH ME, Lynch's way-too-late prequel to the 1990 TV series, relates the last days of teen queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). After an agonizing first half-hour designed to empty the theater, Lynch unleashes his patented perfervid style, puts the familiar dwarfs...
...places." This fall TIME reporter David Seideman will examine the spotted-owl environmental controversy in his | forthcoming book Showdown at Opal Creek. Not all TIME authors compose weighty public-policy tomes. On a lighter note, senior writer William A. Henry III recently published The Great One: The Life and Legend of Jackie Gleason. And away...
CINEMA Clint Eastwood: his legend as a western hero...
...right then. If the young won't respect a living legend, a man has to tend to it himself. Unforgiven, Eastwood's first western since Pale Rider in 1985, is a dark, passionate drama with good guys so twisted and bad guys so persuasive that virtue and villainy become two views of the same soul. But it is also Eastwood's meditation on age, repute, courage, heroism -- on all those / burdens he has been carrying with such good grace for decades. On Clintessence...