Word: legend
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...legend became the basis for the 1994 movie "With Honors...
...Barnum is known to many as the founder of the Barnum & Bailey circus, or perhaps as the man behind tiny General Tom Thumb and Jumbo the Elephant (whose charred remains and untarnished tail can still be found at Tufts). Barnum was indeed a legend in his time with his constant attractions, frauds and hoaxes. He has become a central figure in any study of American popular culture, and is as much an American cultural icon as the Statue of Liberty or Marcia Brady...
...last-minute touchdown drive that culminated in the Catch, a 6-yd. pass to wide receiver Dwight Clark at the back of the end zone. Three times Montana would be the Super Bowl mvp. After he was traded to the Chiefs in April '93, Montana added to his legend by leading them to stirring play-off victories over Pittsburgh and Houston. Ismay, Montana (pop. 22), even changed its name...
This September 21st will mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of Jimi Hendrix' death, in all likelihood ending the slue of commemorative reissues that have redefined Hendrix' legend for a new generation of listeners. Of all the Hendrix reissues from the past few years (which include a great deal of previously unreleased material), perhaps the album most worthy of re-appraisal is that bastard son of Jimi recordings, Band of Gypsys, which is being distributed by Capitol Records twenty-five years after the original release...
DIED. H.L. STEVENSON, 65, journalist; after a long illness; in Stamford, Connecticut. Stevenson's combination of folksy wit, a strategically deployed Southern drawl and unbending standards made him a living legend at the UPI wire service where, over 31 years, he rose from reporter to editor in chief. Early assignments included the emerging civil rights movement; his tenure at the top coincided with the fall of Richard Nixon and the re-emergence of China, where Stevenson played a key role in the opening of Western news bureaus...