Word: legend
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Kirrane was watching the '56 Olympic tryouts when Boston hockey legend Walter Brown asked if Jack was trying...
...challenger. For much of the summer, both have refused to respond to their opponents comments. The tactic has been more effective for the 94-year old Thurmond, who is almost a lock to defeat relative newcomer Elliott Close. "You just don't run a political novice against a political legend, no matter how old," Towle notes. In North Carolina, it's a somewhat different story. Helms' bitter, racially charged 1990 contest against former Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt established Gantt as a legitimate contender. Since then, a coalition of politicians and civic leaders has registered tens of thousands of new voters...
Even more unimaginable, Loida loosened the company's connections with the African-American community, in which Reg Lewis was a legend. She fired most of his confidants, some of them black, and replaced them with her own, some of whom, like her, are Filipino. "I want the company to speak in one voice, and there's no room here for those that don't share that view," she explains. "I know where I want this company to go, and I know how I want this company to get there." Honest dissent is fine, she says, "but my motto...
Harry Pendel, 40, is the outwardly prosperous proprietor of Pendel & Braithwaite, Limitada, a gentlemen's tailor shop that bears on its frosted-glass window the legend PANAMA AND SAVILE ROW SINCE 1921. Legend seems the right word because Harry thinks he is the only person in Panama City, including his wife Louisa, who knows the falsity of his front. There was no Braithwaite and no establishment on Savile Row. Harry is in truth an ex-con who did time for torching his Uncle Benny's London garment warehouse, at his uncle's request, for the insurance. His new life...
...drawing what Hemingway used to call juice from all those ill-fitting depictions. One of the better new novelists, Indian or otherwise, is Sherman Alexie (Reservation Blues, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven). His latest, Indian Killer (Atlantic Monthly Press; 420 pages; $22), is a murderous urban legend not calculated to calm anyone's racial unease. Rage builds slowly in the heart of John Smith, a decent but troubled Native American who was taken--stolen, actually--from his 14-year-old Indian mother and adopted by well-meaning whites. Unreconciled to his new life but unable to speak...