Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...credentials for admission are impeccable, but what makes his a true baseball legend is his pugnacious attitude toward his life and the game that consumed...
...starring film role in 33 years: a movie star just wed to her sixth spouse. George Hamilton and Ringo Starr play two of her exes, and Dom DeLuise is her hyperactive manager. Titled Sextette, the movie is based on a play written by West, whose own love life is legend. Being a star again seems to have rejuvenated her. "I feel like I'm 20," says Mae. "No, make that more like...
...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...
...folk lore. The crudities, the enigma of the original Kong's expression, are part of that work's strength. The wowing Technicolor virtuosity of the remake reduces the tale's mythic resonances and turns it into a safe PG entertainment. It may be that though the legend of Kong works on something that is perpetually child like in everyone, it was never meant for children...
...made Castilian roses bloom among the hillside rocks, and Juan Diego took them to the bishop in his scrape. When he opened his cloak, it bore a miraculous painting of the Virgin in unmistakably Indian form, with a brown face and black hair. As Graham Greene once wrote, "The legend gave the Indian self-respect; it gave him a hold over his conquerors...