Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ball's mulish and ruthless uses of power are legend. Rather than bend to union demands in 1963, he took a nine-year strike on the Florida East Coast Railway. He ran the line with scab labor, and managers trimmed featherbedded jobs and produced the road's first profits since World War II. Another time, when Ball decided that the taxes of several Florida counties were too high, he simply paid half the bill; only Dade County had the temerity to sue for the rest...
...most expressive backs in all history. His hands became a legend, and he kept them in the spotlight, even when his players were in penumbral gloom. In his mind's ear he heard orchestral sounds never made before-and proceeded to make them. "Music appeals to me for what can be done with it," Leopold Stokowski once remarked. By that he meant that he knew better than Beethoven or Brahms how instruments should sound, and that Johann Sebastian Bach surely would have loved his lush orchestral transcriptions of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor. For such arrogance...
...docu-dramas," is subject to special danger of another sort. People who go to a moviehouse expect to see fiction and accept the conventions of historical drama: no one is much worse off if everyone's image of Disraeli is George Arliss or if Gregory Peck romanticizes the legend of Douglas MacArthur. But, as a number of psychologists have pointed out, the television screen provides most people with their visual knowledge of real events, such as President Kennedy's assassination, so that truth and show-biz demands are bound to get mixed up when two networks...
Song of Solomon is an exuberant expansion of her themes and literary techniques. Using legend and the tradition of black oral history, she traces a family from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement-from slavery in the South, to farming in Pennsylvania, to middle-class respectability in a Midwestern town. Song of Solomon will inevitably be compared with Roots. But any comparison must end with the superior quality of Morrison's imagination and prose. Her fictional family is stuck with the portentous name of Dead, the result of an error at the Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia...
...legend goes. And grows. From out of the barrage of funeral images, from the fragmented memory of dozens of Presley lyrics, one reaches for a single last memory, searches for an epitaph. Go way back, to another of those early Sun records and there is one that seems particularly appropriate. "Well," Elvis starts off, in a wild, raw drawl, then rushes into the verse...