Word: legendes
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Ironic Temple. Seven months before Hoover passed the mandatory retirement age of 70 in 1965, Lyndon Johnson extended his tenure indefinitely. Nixon has been as reluctant as past Presidents to face the political outcry that might follow the repudiation of a legend. A tangle of political ironies surrounds the director's present relations with the Nixon Administration. The President and Attorney General John Mitchell have been hoping for months to ease Hoover out with great ceremony and public thanks for his long, remarkable career...
...legendary Leatherneck who became the most decorated Marine in the corps' history; of pneumonia; in Hampton, Va. Weaned on the rousing reminiscences of Confederate veterans, Virginia-born "Chesty"-so called because he always walked like a pouter pigeon-was often described as a born combat leader. According to legend, he went into battle with a copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars tucked in his duffel bag. Volunteering as a private in World War I, Puller was commissioned at 20; he first saw action battling bandits in Haiti and Nicaragua in the 1920s and '30s, when he earned...
...seen throughout The Last Movie, even when other actors come on-notably Stella Garcia as Hopper's Peruvian mistress and Rod Cameron as Rod Cameron. Hopper never appears sober or coherent. This may account for the film's Godardian device-from time to time the legend SCENE MISSING is mounted on a field of black. During the filming of The Last Movie, Hopper declared: "Being an artist is a heavy scene." That, unhappily, is the scene that is altogether missing...
...What remains for the Quennell corps are mostly second siftings, attractively presented, which reinforce the charm of the whole Proust legend. The English novelist most often compared to Proust, Anthony Powell, contributes a pleasant little piece about "Proust as a Soldier." (When Proust was asked "What event in military history do you most admire?", he answered: "My own enlistment as a volunteer...
Obviously then, more is needed here than the simple luck and pluck that, as legend has it, was enough to save all those musicals in the thirties. I tend to doubt that, as Esquire would have us believe, the forties were the last time America was happy. We had begun whistling in the dark a good bit earlier than that. Which means that if On the Town is to be revived it must be revived with all of its original complexities and simplicities intact. O-K, I'll grant you it's a helluva task, but then New York...