Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most pop bands must tour constantly to stay afloat, and Skynyrd's "torture tours" are legend. Occasionally the group will give 250 concerts during 300 days on the road. During one 95-day stretch in 1975, they did 88 one-nighters. Last week they traveled through four Western states, giving five concerts in seven days. The ceaseless motion soon takes its psychic toll. "After a while you turn dingy," says Vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, 27. "Your mind and body won't take...
...boomerang and live off the land like a bushman. Eventually Morgan killed a couple of policemen, and a fat ? 1,000 price was fixed on his head. By the time he ran up against the law for the last time, Morgan was working his way from highwayman to legend...
Well, Altman's legend will not stand on this little contestant, no matter how much Vincent Canby cheers her on from the sidelines. But chalk it up mostly to Altman's never-failing eye for realism. Because once having chosen this metaphor--a band of bad actors for a generation of gun-slingers--Altman portrays an acting troupe as he knows most of them to be--generally hungover, self-deluding, myth-gobbling and over-rated. So the real question remains: why choose this metaphor in the first place? Maybe Altman just wanted to give his real actors an improvising...
...Happened One Night. Frank Capra hits his crest. This legend, a tremendously successful commercial venture ruined undershirts and all that, but it is funny and still fresh too. Gable became an important star with this, mostly by taking off his shirt and having another on underneath and that was swell for the dames of America, but we all wish that it was Claudette Colbert who sent the underwear business into Depression with the rest of the country...
...water hyacinths; each was believed to consume as much as 100 lbs. of the hyacinths a day. But placed in weed-clogged waters, the manatee ate its way through a mere 40 lbs. of the damnable plant daily. The hulking, hairless creatures, who may have helped inspire the mermaid legend (their mammaries faintly resemble those of a woman), also find it difficult to coexist with power boats. University of Miami biologists report that about 20% of all manatees found dead each year are crushed by barges or chewed up by boat propellers...