Word: legend
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...Blood Countess shows signs of that pastime. Codrescu mixes amorphous bits about the Hungarian State Archive with speculations surrounding Bathory. He further conflates legend and scholarship through his fictional Drake Bathory-Kereshtur, a descendant of the countess who lives in the U.S. and craves to be punished for a death in Hungary...
Which is where Dave Carney comes in. At 36, Carney is already a legend among Republican operatives. He cut his teeth running the field operations for John Sununu's losing 1980 race for the U.S. Senate in New Hampshire. That was when Carney lived in an unplugged walk-in refrigerator in a bagel deli and showered at a YMCA across the street. Carney followed Sununu into Bush's '88 campaign and then served as the White House political director. The pinball machine in his office kept people coming by -- "and helped keep me in the loop," Carney concedes...
...remarks to the seniors, Rudenstine related a legend about an English gentleman who had no sailing experience but became an admiral in the British navy because he was "always...
Today how good does he look? A large retrospective jointly organized by London's Tate Gallery, Paris' Musee d'Orsay and the National Gallery of Art in Washington (where it is on view through Aug. 20) offers the evidence. Whistler was an artist whose legend as wit, dandy and aesthetic kamikaze--for what was his libel suit against the critic John Ruskin but a suicide mission, compelled by his own claims to "Southern honor"?--continued after his death and became a barrier to appraisal of his work. One would prefer to think that Whistler the artist flies free of Whistler...
...every era has the right--maybe even the duty--to reinvent the Arthurian legend according to its lights, and so there is something instructive and entertaining about this version. Director Jerry Zucker has not spared the horses (or the broadswords) in mounting his handsome production. There are well-staged, smartly edited bursts of action at the approved modern intervals (every 10 minutes or so), the scenery is always pretty, and aside from Ben Cross's villain (imagine Pat Buchanan in not-so-shining armor), everyone is terribly nice, terribly agreeable. They are pleasant, altogether reasonable companions on this curiously jaunty...