Word: legend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...continued to pick up speed, I looked around at the crowd of aged hippies. To whom do I owe the amusement of this sordid and poignant spectacle, I wondered? On stage, a burnt-out Dylan tried to work the crowd, still trying to squeeze some life out of his legend. In front of me, eight young women performed a historical re-enactment, a little tribute to the hedonistic achievements of the preceding generation...
Last year, rock and roll legend Bob Dylan almost died from a cardiac infection. Last Friday, he performed before a sold-out FleetCenter in downtown Boston. Unfortunately, the condition of his vitality did not exhibit much variance between the two occasions. The old bard has clearly lost his touch, but that didn't stop the girls sitting in front of me from trying to resurrect some of his old spirit. The young women filed in before the lights in the arena had gone down, eight of them in all, all done up in tight tops and black go-go pants...
Another fixture at 14 Plympton St. was George, a homeless man who, according to Tucker, used to spend the winters sleeping in the building and, according to legend, was an ex-stockbroker with a daughter at Stanford...
...Anthony Braxton...was a black politician, who was challenging everything, including the idea of racial construction and music as such," says Radano, explaining his interest in the jazz legend. "He is an autodidact.... But he is a product of the very rich cultural and intellectual setting of Chicago's south side. He is one of the leading thinkers and artists in the post-1960s jazz/'art music' intersection...
Curious to find out how the reality of giving sperm at Harvard lines up with the legend, I do some snooping around. Surprisingly, it isn't long before I find a sperm bank regular. A sophomore and an athlete, he's willing to talk on the condition of anonymity. He tells me that he first heard about the California Cryobank in The Crimson of all places, in the small advertisement the company places in the paper about once a week...