Word: legend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advertisements. Some of GM's car lines actually beat the Japanese. Buick, for example, ranked fifth in the most recent J.D. Power survey of initial quality, placing the GM division ahead of Honda, Nissan, Acura and BMW, among others. The Buick LeSabre model placed ahead of the Acura Legend, Honda Accord and Nissan Maxima on the Power list of the most trouble-free models...
Still other parents drew from the world of popular cuilture when choosing names. Essence R. McGill '94 says she was named after Essence magazine--at least according to one version of a family legend...
...innate to the human psyche. Shortages of resources are habitually taken as occasions for armed offensives, rather than for hard thought and innovation. And war, to a warrior people, is of course the highest adventure, the surest antidote to malaise, the endlessly repeated theme of legend, song, religious myth and personal quest for meaning. It is how men die and what they find to live...
...prospect of tiny clusters of civilization tied by the endless reaches of shortgrass in the 10 states between the Rockies and the 98th meridian. The Great Plains form one-fifth of the land mass of the lower 48 states -- and an even greater portion of the nation's legend and romance. Sitting Bull warred and wept on the plains. General George Custer wandered there with the Seventh Cavalry, his pack of greyhounds, and his band playing the march Garry Owen, then galloped to his dreadful rite of immortality at Little Big Horn. Sixty million buffalo were mindlessly slaughtered...
...limits to a novelist, especially one of Garcia Marquez's talents. Yet in this novel his fabulist's imagination is overburdened by research. Historical names, dates and events frequently interrupt the mood that has been so carefully prepared to characterize Bolivar's last ride. True, Garcia Marquez unhorses a legend distorted by politics and patinaed by sentimentality, but Bolivar did a pretty good job of it himself. Schoolchildren may know him as the George Washington of South America, but a great many grownups remember Bolivar as the disillusioned man who said, "Those who have served the cause of revolution have...