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Gauguin is a legendary figure, with all the accretions that entails. His legend was helped by other people's fictions, though Gauguin's own existential posturings as hero, Christ-martyr, magus, savage and artist-criminal lay at its root. For many, the hero of Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence is still the "real" Gauguin -- a stockbroker and Sunday painter who cracks out of the bourgeois egg, dumps his wife, family and career and hightails it to Tahiti to "find himself" among the breasts and breadfruit. He is part brute and part escape artist, the Houdini of the avant...
...sort of like the legend of Casey Jones...
...plane was formed of space-age plastics, but its mission was inspired by ancient legend. The goal: to see whether man could fly under his own power across 74 miles of Aegean waters, much as a mythological Greek named Daedalus once escaped his island prison on Crete by fashioning wax and feathers into wings and soaring to freedom. Last week, in a historic attempt to re-create that flight, a team led by engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology succeeded in bringing the myth back to life. For an arduous 3 hr. 54 min., Kanellos Kanellopoulos, 31, Greek Olympic...
...original leader. Even though Walt, who formed the company with his brother Roy in 1923, was never talented enough as a drafter to draw most of the characters he invented, or even to duplicate his trademark signature for autograph seekers, he was a one- man show. As corporate legend has it, Disney dictated the entire narrative of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) from memory as his animators scribbled the tale onto storyboards. When Disney died in 1966, the company went into virtual suspended animation. Disney's last big hit of that era was 1969's The Love...
...little hard to fathom. That night's first-place winner -- an honor determined solely by the applause -- would pocket just $200. And, of course, there is that infamous Apollo audience, an orchestra and two balconies bursting with folks who give no quarter. Ella Fitzgerald's hazing is a legend. She managed no more than a few off-key notes before Master of Ceremonies Ralph Cooper came out to save her. Stilling the jeers, he won her a reprieve and she started again. On the second try, she brought down the house...