Word: legend
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According to local legend, the Grand Tetons were so named by fur trappers who hadn't seen any women for the duration of their expedition. The horny men came upon the mountain range and immediately decided that the peaks on the horizon resembled "Grand Tetons"--French for "big breasts." This leads to the unfortunate incidence of women buying souvenier T-shirts which read--you guessed it--"Grand Tetons" in large letters across the chest. So much for class...
Wall Streeters are comforted that some of the smartest investors seem to be confident. Warren Buffett, the Wall Street legend who in a lifetime has turned $9,000 into more than $3 billion, recently bought major stakes in troubled industries. He invested an estimated $250 million in Wells Fargo & Co. and $300 million in Champion International, a paper-products company. Laurence Tisch and his family-controlled Loews Corp. have sunk hundreds of millions of dollars into Bank of Boston and Continental Bank. Concludes security analyst Bruce Benteman, who tracks the nation's wealthiest stock pickers: "Everyone thinks our problems...
...drama is remarkable as the first (and perhaps last?) post-glasnost film from the Soviet Union. Lounguine proudly airs Russia's dirty laundry: the pervasive alcoholism, the anti-Semitism, the suspicion and self-destruction. Rock star Piotr Mamonov has a snaky charisma as the musician, and American tenor-sax legend Hal Singer blesses the project with his presence. At last May's Cannes Film Festival, Taxi Blues won the best-director prize. Today it has both news and nostalgic value. We can hear it wail, in a minor key, from the sweet and recent past: the early days of Soviet...
Dupery is a war trick at least as old as the legend of the Trojan horse. In World War II, the U.S. created an entire dummy army unit in southern Britain to convince the Germans that the Normandy invasion would be directed toward the Pas-de-Calais, and it worked. The Soviets are the masters of military wile, although they do foul up at times. In the early 1970s, the U.S. spotted a Soviet "submarine" bent by a storm, a giveaway that the vessel was a fake...
...George Smiley, who has not been seen in Le Carre's fiction since Smiley's People (1980). In what is basically a walk-on or, in this case, a sit-down role, Smiley retains his enigmatic, nondescript power. At the after-dinner session, introduced by Ned as a "legend of the Service," Smiley tells the expectant students, "Oh, I don't think I'm a legend at all. I think I'm just a rather fat old man wedged between the pudding and the port." Not true. Ned paraphrases the remarks of an extremely clever and thoughtful man: "He scoffed...