Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...according to New Republic legend, is a transposition of Brooklyn Rapid Transit, and was the brainstorm of an editor carrying the very first unsigned column to the Brooklyn printer via subway...
...tremendous cultural and historical loss for the City, and this vacation is your last chance to visit the old legend. I mean this is it, the clearance sale, the closeout, the end of the affair. No more movie/stage spectacles. It's now or never. The last double bill, which will run through April 12, is "Crossed Swords," starring Rex Harrison, a film based on Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper," and the last Great Easter Show...
There is as much put-on as defiance in such a posture, much striving after the long shadow of one's own legend. Zevon is shrewd enough not only to realize this but also to acknowledge it, both in his songs (one hell-raising rocker is called I'll Sleep When I'm Dead) and in casual conversation. "The fundamental idea that everything's going to be all right appeals to me less than the simple notion of bonehead justice," Zevon told TIME'S correspondent James Willwerth...
...that every frame lectures the viewer on film and stagecraft both--and even though its technical precocity makes it something of an exhausting film to watch, you want to watch it over and over after it's finished. "Kane" is the object lesson in American movies--in itself, in legend, in its tradition. It's not the starting point, but the center around which everything else moves. It's a construct, not a natural--a device, not entertainment, and it's never been a great popular success. Too self-serious to project a world of beauty into which one would...
What becomes a legend most? The lace-trimmed cotton knickers displayed by Cockney Comic Marty Feldman once belonged to Queen Victoria. A collector of 19th century furniture and art, Feldman figured that nothing would be more Victorian than the royal underpants, so when he spotted them at a London auction he laid out a bloomin' $320 for the bloomers. Besides, patriotic to the nines, he "wanted to preserve part of England's heritage and to keep an Englishman's hands on Queen Victoria's drawers." She would not have been amused...