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Word: legendes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legend Texans are a grandiose breed with more than the natural share of megalomaniacs. But University of Texas Biochemist Earl B. Dawson thinks that he detects an uncommon pocket of psychological adjustment around El Paso. The reason, says Dawson, lies in the deep wells from which the city draws its water supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Texas Tranquilizer | 10/4/1971 | See Source »

...California's Terminal Island on a three-year perjury charge, the adjectives were no longer necessary. Her name said it all. Liz Renay--one-time winner of a Marilyn Monroe look-alike contest, four times divorced and occasional artist--had herself become a grade-B, low-budget Hollywood legend even though the studios had long since black balled her for fear of her shadowy connections...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Liz Renay Shows Her Face | 10/1/1971 | See Source »

...broad-browed, head-lowered promise of some intransigent charge into the arena." With critical hoofs stamping and literary horns waggling, what Revel gores is myths. After teaching in Florence, for instance, he wrote a book suggesting, among other heresies, that Italian men are far less virile than popular legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: This Year's Pundit | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...entire $2 million for the musical Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and is now ready to plow its considerable profits back into new films. Wells, Rich, Greene, the advertising agency, will soon complete its first film, Dirty Little Billy, an irreverent rehash of the Billy the Kid legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Cinema, Corporate Style | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

...genuine sidewinder. Playing Kate Elder, Faye Dunaway is better than she has been since Bonnie and Clyde, raunchy and touchingly haunted by the always frustrated hope of a better life. The irony is that Doc is interesting bunk. mainly It is for the the stuff things of it is legend- trying the to challenges, the brawls, the gunfights- that sustains attention. Perry and Hamill are simply swallowed whole by the myth they hoped to destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Potshots at the O.K. Corral | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

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