Word: legendizes
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Your report on J.K. Rowling and the latest installment in her fantasy series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, gave me new insight into a true legend of literature [July 25]. It was good to learn about her struggles as well as her triumphs as a writer. I had thought the Potter books just flowed easily from Rowling's imagination. Now I understand that writing isn't magic, and that makes her books even more compelling...
...object to a journalist's use of the word legend to describe Nicole Kidman...
...legend involves the past. And I don't like categories. This one is great, and that one is great. I mean, the word great stands for something. When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise...
...office, he argued that the classroom mess was "all Timmy's fault--if he hadn't ducked, the orange wouldn't have hit the wall." His longtime pal Richard Lazarus, now a law professor at Georgetown, laughs as he tells the story, which has become a piece of family legend. "What truly astounded the principal at the time," he says, "is that he actually had been persuaded it was Timmy's fault...
...east, then north for Hartford. They cheered Berry in Bridgeport, and they cheered him anew in Hartford, a place that had assumed a hallowed significance in BLOHARDS lore. Berry had been born in Hartford, a place that, entirely due to Berry, had assumed a hallowed significance in BLOHARDS legend. Berry, who as a Connecticut lad could have gone either way (Sox or Yanks), had, as he says, ?grown up under the spell of Sox radio announcer Fred Hoey.? Berry?s grandfather Bunts Berry, the first man in the history of Hartford to bunt, having laid one down...