Word: legend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fourth decade of this century, on an evening just after the end of war, a Harvard legend was born. At their smoky club on Holyoke Street, the young men at the Hasty Pudding's Upstairs Bar amused themselves with rye, scotch and four-part chords. At some point on one such evening, a few of the club's men decided their ditties didn't sound bad at all. Maybe they should band together in a group. It was a fantasy of the bored and excessive, trying to entertain themselves. The boys decided their title should probably be something fun, something...
...comparison of this trio with the Bill Evans trio by critics has been a thorn in my side," frets the young jazz pianist Brad Mehldau, in quite possibly one of the most erudite and sincerely self-promotional set of liner notes in recent memory. The biographical hearsay and pseudo-legend that has plagued Mehldau throughout the years is certainly not the worse of fates, but let's give him a break... this is a man on a mission...
...PREMISE: The masterpiece of American jazz legend Cole Porter, this musical's story is full of silliness, romance and scandal aboard an old-style luxury liner. Remaining true to the style of its era, it's pure entertainment with plenty of characteristically energetic song and dance...
...what it is like belonging to such a famous family. With Henry Fonda as his father, Jane as his sister and Bridget as his daughter, it's no wonder! Without prompting, Fonda makes it clear that he never felt that the Fonda family success rests on Henry's legend. "It's not that Henry was my father or I'm Bridget's dad...the talent in this family is something we are all very proud...
...papers--and many more embarrassing revelations about his private life (his flirtations, his stormy divorce from Mileva, his possible dalliance with the daughter of the woman who would become his second wife, his estrangement from his two sons, one of whom was schizophrenic)--Lieserl's fate shadows the Einstein legend like some unsolved equation...