Word: legend
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...death in 1963 prompted a slow fugue of commemorative albums (including a bizarre set of postmortem duets with the also deceased Jim Reeves) and the stately 1985 biopic Sweet Dreams, with Jessica Lange as Patsy. Now the singer has become a legend that won't die. There's Patsy Cline: The Birth of a Star (Razor & Tie records), an audio collection of her TV appearances with Godfrey. A stage show, Always...Patsy Cline, played for two years in Nashville, Tennessee. The star of Always, Mandy Barnett, has just released her own album of Cline-inflected tunes. And for weeks...
Charles Ferrara, a Harvard Square hair-cutting legend who coiffed the manes of professors and politicians for nearly half a century at LaFlamme barber shop, died Tuesday in Massachusetts General Hospital...
...glorious splendor that is the Wang Center, the latest production of "The Phantom of the Opera" to hit Boston lives up to--and beyond--the legend it has created for itself. From the magnificently ornate costumes to the familiar and crystal-clear melodies rising from the orchestra pit, the now world-famous production is still a breathtaking waltz into the heart of the most romantic lunatic that ever lived...
Within the tight circles of terrorism experts, Thurman is a legend. In 1990 he solved what everyone thought was an almost perfect crime, figuring out who destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988. Thurman matched a fragment of a circuit board from the bomb's timer to an identical circuit board, which was part of a timer the CIA had recovered from an intact, unexploded bomb seized in Togo in 1986. Thurman's amazing command of detail led to a Zurich electronics firm that admitted selling 20 such timers to the Libyan regime...
Wolf cited former State House Speaker and Cambridge political legend Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, who once said that "all politics is local...