Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...true, that legend about Howard Hughes having a druidical beard and toenails two inches long? Indeed it is, according to Bob Rehak, who says that he skippered an 83-ft. yacht that spirited the millionaire recluse from Paradise Island to Miami last February. When Hughes arrived on board, Rehak told the Miami Herald, he was on a stretcher, and his five aides "had him under some sort of dope. He'd open his eyes and they would roll to the back of his head." Rehak adds: "He had this real stringy beard. His hair was down over his shoulders...
...politics. All politicians, most people understand, can survive only on vast sums in campaign contributions, sometimes degradingly solicited. So while the sour odors of the Watergate continue to leak out around the edges of the White House, the facade of Richard Nixon stands in the long line of presidential legend, tarnished a bit, but not crumbling. Besides, Americans think of Nixon as a sort of quintessential square, a Billy Graham parishioner. They find it difficult to think that he would try to profit by a fast shuffle...
Unsurprisingly, Joe had become something of a living legend by the time he was 25. When sportswriters got tired of extolling his exploits on the field, they zeroed in on his between-games lifestyle. There were photos and stories about his bachelor pad on Manhattan's East Side, which featured a white llama rug-and, purportedly, some of the unholiest debaucheries since Petronius' last house party. No American beauty could regard her career as complete without a date with "Broadway Joe" (a bad geographical misnomer, because Namath's favorite haunts-Dudes 'n' Dolls, Mister Laffs...
Even before he died last year in an automobile accident at the age of 49, the peasant known as Arigó had become a legend in his native Brazil. Claiming to be guided by the wise voice of a long-deceased physician whom he had never known personally, the uneducated healer saw as many as 300 patients a day, diagnosing and treating them in minutes. For some he suggested minor surgery, frequently performing the operations himself with a pocketknife. For others he recommended drugs, writing prescriptions for unorthodox pharmacological combinations that somehow worked. He treated almost every known ailment...
BLACK ACTORS and directors, however, argue that the films economically boost the community because they provide needed jobs for blacks in the movie industry. D'Urville Martin, a black actor who stars in both The Legend of Nigger Charley and The Final Comedown, says: "There was a time when there was no black work, and now that we've got work people are still complaining...