Word: legend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this Tyson, the Tyson of legend, is on trial here, as much for his behavior on the job as on the town. The heavyweight champ in title or spirit, Tyson is an imposing villain, for he seems beyond evil or humanity -- soul- free. Look for the black heart beneath the black stare, and find the creepiest thing: nothing. Punishment without guilt. After a 1986 TKO of Jesse Ferguson, Tyson said matter-of-factly, "I tried to punch him and drive the bone of his nose back into his brain." Nice analysis, Professor Death...
Mick Jagger is back after a long absence from the film world. The man who remains at the very heart of rock legend has never become any more than a trivial celluloid figure, shooting with increasing rapidity toward the margins and fringes of the film universe's great trash heap. The pile is already overflowing. Masterpieces featuring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder (together) lie there and fester. And they're joined by the works of Christopher Reeve, Sophia Copola, whoever played Enzo the Baker (favorite line: "Hello, I'm Enzo the Baker, don't you remember me?), Mark Hamill...
...fated titular hero, Mick Jagger, the rock singer, with a beard that makes him appear more Amish than Australian, is, sadly, simply a dour renegade who rarely becomes the 'wild colonial boy' of the legend...
...Tomassoni, who tried to defer comments to Athletic Director and coaching legend Bill Cleary, couldn't help but be overwhelmed by the drama of the moment...
...consider the CIA. To those who knew of it at all in 1963, it was still living off the glamour of its wartime OSS (Office of Strategic Services) legend -- the dashing blue-blooded oh-so-social spies, American James Bonds. Even the black eye of the Bay of Pigs fiasco could be attributed to Kennedy's failure of nerve rather than to the Harvard and Yale ole boys who drew up the plans. From almost the very beginning, the CIA has been a focus of Kennedy- assassinati on conspiracy theories (bitterness by some agents over Kennedy's Bay of Pigs...