Word: legend
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...ancient Arabia, the most fabled land was the city of Ubar. As legend had it, one Shaddad ibn Ad created a jewel-encrusted oasis town in the southern deserts to stand as an "imitation of Paradise." Islam's holy Koran, which called the site Iram, evoked the grandeur of "lofty pillars, the like of which were not produced in ((all)) the land." This was also Islam's Sodom, however, a place that God destroyed because of its wickedness. Ever since, warns an Arabian saying, "anybody who finds Ubar will go crazy." And according to an Arabian Nights tale, "Allah blotted...
David Letterman stopped doing Top 10 lists so that he could preserve the integrity of the genre--before he killed the joke. The "What" may be dead, but it will not die in obscurity. It will always be a legend in our folklore...
There was a time, or so the legend goes, when we had a consensus on the nature of "American values," a prominent part of which was old-fashioned sexual mores. Also important was the idea of military service as an unambiguously moral enterprise, a patriotic duty and a preparation for leadership roles...
...peaks. Following Albertville's opening ceremony this Saturday, the Olympics will take off into the wild white yonder of Val d'Isere, Courchevel and other mountaintop resorts. "I would like people to go home feeling that they spent a fortnight on another planet," says Jean-Claude Killy, ski-racing legend and co-president of the Games...
When the tiny, very pretty freshman from Providence College took the stand, Tyson finally had to cede his searchlight-spotlight to a co-star. At that moment the sense of the procedure finally shifted from a test of a celebrity's mettle, or the dilemma of Tyson the legend vs. Tyson the man, to a familiarly tragic story of men's dangerous urges and women's rightful fears...