Word: legend
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...know this trajectory, and we have been, many of us, witnesses to this legend. But it is the particular and spectacular achievement of Last Train to Memphis that it holds both the making of the history and the beginning of the myth in a firm, simple and compassionate focus, concentrating on the four years from Elvis' first success to his entrance into the Army in 1958. (A planned second volume will chronicle the years, many of them melancholy, that followed.) Guralnick, an excellent music critic, concentrates on narrative here, and writes evocatively, empathetically, of Elvis' roots and dreams...
They are both recruited to attend St. Joseph's, a private high school an hour and a half away in the suburbs, reputed for its academics and even more for its basketball program. A faded cardboard cutout of Detroit Pistons legend Isaiah Thomas, who graduated from the school, decays in the trophy display case...
Sure, he played here and there. Kazcher in the Rye came in for one play against Princeton and threw an interception, but the legend of Karzan didn...
...Shaq becomes a more mediocre player, he will be laughed at for his hubris-filled hobbies. And when that day comes--and sometime it will--the legend of Shaq Fu will not continue...
They didn't sit for long, though. On the ensuing kickoff, Dartmouth cornerback Brian White, son of Boston Celtic legend Jo Jo White, ran the ball back 98 yards to tie a Harvard 35 Dartmouth...