Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into an elevator with a crowd of Hasidim and feel them staring, wondering who you are. All the brokers know each other by sight, if not by name. A set of electrically operated bulletproof glass doors leads to the room's lobby, and another automatic door, with the legend NO VISITORS ALLOWED, and operated by a guard, leads to the trading floor. As in every store and office in the area, there are plenty of closed-circuit cameras and hidden alarm switches. The windows are high, and there are dozens of 20-ft.-long tables, lit by fluorescent study...
...West and the Wilderness, Kevin Brownlow, a British film historian, sets out on a unique rescue mission, interviewing survivors, rescuing stills from such bygone epics as Squaw Man and The Big Parade, trekking through early archives. The stories he brings back are the stuff of legend. They could, as well, be the stuff of marvelous adventure movies, if the entertainment industry were not currently catering to adolescent disco fantasies...
Long, long ago, legend has it, the demigod Maui became incensed with the sun. It passed too swiftly over his Hawaiian island, leaving little time for fruits to ripen or womenfolk to dry their tapa cloth. So, with a web of 16 ropes, Maui lassoed the sun. "Give me my life," pleaded Sol. "I will," replied the demigod, "if you promise to move more slowly across our sky." The sun consented, and to this day, islanders swear, its arc is longer, its rays more generous than anywhere else on earth. And ever since, Maui's mighty volcano has been...
Raymond moved up to the American eight for the Munich games. That group, dominated by Crimson rowers and coached by Harvard's living legend coach, taciturn Harry Parker, came home with a silver medal...
...been ascribed to spite, just as Sartre was patently jealous of the younger man who could attract women even without the exploitation of his intellect and reputation. In fact, Beauvoir wasn't as caustic as all that in her memoirs; one finds tenderness there as well. A legend that circulated at the time had Camus saying to a respectable woman of letters: 'We have, dear friend, spent a marvelous evening evoking high-minded subjects, but, you see, if a wench walked by right now I'd drop you and follow...