Word: legend
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...Fall River Legend," the opening piece, is an adaptation of Morton Gould's full score for the Agnes DeMille ballet about Lizzie Borden, the same one who "took an ax" and "gave her parents forty whacks." Thought it calls for fewer than 20 performers, it requires them to sound like many more. This illusion succeeded best in the fanciful second movement, "Waltzes" and the "Elegy" that follows, a piece that itself could secure for its creator a reputation as one of America's greatest tonal composers. Previn and his temporarily reduced company made it not only a focused meditation...
...TIME's religion writer, was looking for a way to write about the state of atheism in America when he became intrigued with an even more fascinating story: the bizarre disappearance of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, America's best-known nonbeliever. No one has seen O'Hair since, as legend has it, she walked away from an unfinished breakfast in August 1995. Van Biema's pursuit of the missing activist took him to Austin, Texas, where her organization has its headquarters. The mystery deepened when his sources starting contradicting one another. "Those discrepancies roused my curiosity," he says, and formed...
...luncheon's final speaker, who brought this image to bear on the sated crowd at Legend's restaurant, evoked the tournament's 45-year tradition. At the end of the luncheon, as it was at the beginning of the Beanpot, the priority was the game, the tournament determinative of Boston hockey bragging rights...
...annual Beanpot luncheon was held yesterday at Legend's restaurant in the FleetCenter. All four teams competing in the tournament--Harvard, Boston University, Boston College and Northeastern--were represented by their coaches and senior players. The luncheon is an opportunity for the Boston media to interview the coaches and team members. Each coach and captain gave a brief speech assessing their team's season to date, while the captains commented upon the personal importance of the Beanpot and their memories of the tournament. The following are excerpts from those speeches...
...Bill's praise, Ennis was not perfect--and therein lies the source of the father's heroic legend of the son. Ennis was, of course, as irascible a youngster as they come. In his best seller Fatherhood, Bill Cosby talked about delivering physical discipline to punish the 12-year-old Ennis' lying in school. As usual, Cosby turned it into a joke for his readers: "I...won't say that this will hurt me more than it will hurt you. That would be true only if I turned around and let you hit me." He concluded, "To this...