Word: legend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...experienced or endured what she has; no one has been so mad, bad or sad. The woman in these songs is "blind, viciously unkind" (Why), "cynical, twisted" (Precious). If Emily Dickinson were to show up at the Betty Ford Center, she might testify, as Lennox does in Legend in My Living Room, "I've shed my tears in bitter drops/ Until the thorn trees bloomed/ To take the spiky fruit to crown/ Myself the Queen of Doom." The whole glorious album plays like an atonement for the excesses of the '80s. The punishment is remembrance...
CINEMA: Many Scripts, One Legend...
...artists and intellectuals, trying to explicate her mystery, who did the most to propagate her legend. She was Ernest Hemingway's pal (he called her "the Kraut"), and she conducted famous liaisons with men ranging from John Wayne to the gloomy popular novelist Erich Maria Remarque. Yet she was also a devoted mother and grandmother who never divorced her only husband, even after he became a chicken rancher in the San Fernando Valley. She was, everyone agreed, "sexy," but no one ever satisfactorily defined the nature of her appeal, which eventually settled into a dislocating combination of threat and good...
Leary's aggressive reputation is legend, from Bow Street to JFK, from the Middlesex School to Ohiri Field, Being a goalie requires a special mindset--knowing that the only thing between you and a goal is your shadow--and Leary...
Basketball legend Magic Johnson has canceled his Class Day speech at the Medical School, saying he wants to be with his wife when their first child is born...