Word: legend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reconcile Mozart's ineffable music with his bawdy childishness: "The easiest and most common method has been to regard Mozart as a sort of child god whose works welled up spontaneously." But Solomon's sharply-written, layered chapters document the grown composer's own psychological caving-in to the legend of his prodigious childhood. Says Walsh: "Mozart and the members of his circle come vividly alive...
...gates of sexual and political freedom without quite being able to enter himself. The truth is somewhat different: Milk was an engaging if slightly goofy pol whose defining moment to most San Franciscans was his televised illustration of how to obey the pooper-scooper law. While the Milk legend may not be justified, Korie does use it to create a narrative that pulls the listener along...
...Greek team, actually found are three stone tablets bearing inscriptions that purportedly relate to Alexander's death, along with the remains of two large stone chambers. The artifacts come from a site in Egypt's Western Desert, near the oasis of Siwa-- the place where, as legend has it, Alexander received a favorable reading from an oracle. Near the end of his life, goes the story, he said he wanted to be buried at Siwa...
...after years of failing health but at the remarkable age of 104, she left behind five children, 28 grandchildren--and a motto as legacy to all who mourned her passing: ``I know not age, nor weariness, nor defeat.'' The boast is testament to her ability to craft legend out of the exigencies of real life. Of course, Rose Kennedy knew age and weariness and defeat. Many times over. She outlived four of her children and a husband who loved and humiliated her. She endured the haunting gossip and relentless scrutiny accorded all her family. With strictness, with humor, with...
Midway between its icy source in Tibet and the fertile delta at its mouth in Shanghai, 3,900 miles to the east, China's Yangtze River hurtles through a series of sheer chasms known as the Three Gorges. Legend has it that the scenic channel was carved in stone by the goddess Yao Ji as a way of diverting the river around the petrified remains of a dozen dragons she had slain for harassing the peasants. Over the centuries painters and poets have idealized the canyons as a mist-shrouded wilderness. While that may have once been true, the region...