Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sunday against the Baltimore Colts, Dowling will again be on the sidelines. It is an unusual position for Dowling: he played first-string throughout junior high school and college. The press clippings said it all: number 10, Brian Dowling--All--Ivy quarterback: never lost a game he started: a legend in his own time...
...eloquence of movement. One new Limn work, The Unsung, a choreographically skillful paean to America's vanquished Indian heroes, was imbued with all of the solemnity of an Indian sun dance and, unfortunately, much of its tedium. But Orfeo, a free, ever-unwinding retelling of the old legend set to Beethoven's String Quartet No. 11, summoned up the poetic suggestiveness and exquisite line that characterized his first big success, The Moor's Pavane, which is still a favorite with the American Ballet Theater. Less striking but still provocative were Dances for Isadora, which drew...
...legend dates back to the 6th century A.D., when St. Columba began converting Scotland to Christianity. While visiting the Loch Ness area one day, Columba saw a giant animal rear out of the water and lunge at one of his monks. Only when the good saint made the sign of the cross did the beast back off. Since that frightening debut, Nessie, as the beast has become known, has appeared countless times to villagers and visitors alike; there are even murky photos of the famed Loch Ness monster. Despite such "evidence," scientists remain highly skeptical. Nessie's "proper habitat...
...pious legend? Not necessarily, says Israeli Botanist Yehuda Feliks. Writing in a monumental new set of reference books called the Encyclopedia Judaica, Feliks identifies Jacob's secret as a keen perception of the laws of heredity. (The peeled branches were just window dressing.) Jacob apparently knew from a dream that the hybrids (white sheep and black goats that carried recessive genes of "spottedness") matured sexually earlier than the pure monochromes in the flock. He mated the hybrids, and their recessive genes emerged to produce a maximum of spotted offspring in each generation. He set aside the pure monochromes, unbred...
...sound like a soap-opera maker's dream and any serious film based on it would have to be handled carefully so as not to result in a tear-jerker. However, while the Berry Gordy production avoids melodrama and the extravaganza often used in filming the life of a legend, some inconsistencies exist that are so extreme as to be incongruous...