Word: legendizes
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...this long-ball era, some people think pitchers should be permitted any device. Though the legend is that slippery pitches (spitballs, grease balls, cut balls) were banned in 1919 to facilitate more Babe Ruths, hygiene was at the heart of it. Like the players in those days, the balls were expected to remain in the game a little longer than they are today, and fielders were complaining about the sickly colored, gouged and slobbered-up baseballs...
...only way to explain the phenomenon is the influx of ever-better athletes into all professional sports. Babe Ruth was simply such a legend that he could be excused for showing a little bravado. More important, his very presence at the plate commanded respect...
...troupe causes such excitement. The performances on the four-city circuit (New York, Washington, San Francisco, Los Angeles) are practically sold out. At the Metropolitan Opera House the crowds have patiently worked their way through strict security checks. Arguments among balletomanes about whether the company lives up to its legend are steamier than Manhattan sidewalks. Bolshoi means big, and this bravura ensemble virtually defines...
...superstrong android, a half-human, half-Betazoid female counselor, and a captain named Jean Luc Picard, played by British Actor Patrick Stewart, 46. "He is a bit older and wiser than Kirk," Stewart observes of his character. "But like Kirk, he is strongly independent and something of a legend as an explorer." One of the few returning veterans is Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry. Says he: "The show will deal with problems that have arisen during the past two decades, such as terrorism and drugs." Roddenberry is firm about one point: the new Trekkers will never reveal what finally happened...
...lane reserved for car pools by planting inflated dummies in the passenger seats. And the pregnant woman who successfully argued in court that she and her fetus were entitled to use the car-pool lane because they were separate persons. Then there are the days that live in legend -- like Oct. 29, 1986, when a single midafternoon accident on the San Diego Freeway spread gridlock along connecting freeways and surface streets from downtown Los Angeles to the San Fernando Valley, trapping tens of thousands of motorists for eight full hours. (Survivors of such mythic urban struggles brag about them like...