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...When the legend becomes fact," a cynical newspaperman says in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, "print the legend." Rosenthal's picture was the war's definitive photo op. It didn't matter that the flag raising was about the least dangerous activity any of the men had engaged in on Iwo Jima, or that none of them had raised the first flag. No visages are visible in the photo--an anonymity that added to the shot's sense of selfless, faceless heroism, as well as giving the War Department's publicists leeway to fiddle with...
...stupid trailer assumes that we’ve seen the first two installments of the franchise, spewing out inane narration-drivel about how “YOU’VE SEEN HIS HORROR. YOU’VE SEEN HIM WORK. NOW, SEE HIS LEGEND GROW” and so on. Who the hell is “he?” Is his name Mr. Saw? I have no idea. I have to believe that the deep-throated horror-narrator guy that they have for every such trailer is just sick of promoting these “Saw?...
...Soviet dissidents, once hunted by the general, came because they believe that Politkovskaya was one of the remaining few who stood by values and principles for which they had fought. "That is the problem that so many dissidents have become bosses now," said Maria Rosanova, a living legend of the erstwhile Soviet dissident movement, colleague and widow of late writer and thinker Andrei Sinyavsky. Sinyavsky's trial, along with Yuri Daniel back in 1966, had marked the beginning of the dissident era of the Soviet history...
...recontextualization of African-American art forms. Trailblazers in many respects, Public Enemy first drew rap attention to the racism and greed of Hollywood back in 1990 with their song “Burn, Hollywood, Burn,” featuring N.W.A.’s Ice Cube and old-school legend Big Daddy Kane. In the song, a sampled white voice asks rapper Flavor Flav how he feels about playing “a controversial Negro,” a “servant who shuffles and sings.” He refuses indignantly, and accepts instead Ice Cube?...
Unbeknownst to many of the freshmen eating dinner this past Sunday in nearby Annenberg, Sanders Theater housed a benefit show hosted by Harvard’s Sangeet. The show, an attempt to increase awareness of South Asian music and art, featured Pandit Jasraj, a legend of North Indian Hindustani classical music. Jasraj performed before a captivated crowd, singing in Hindi and displaying his incredible vocal range. The show began with a standing ovation from the expectant audience who, despite the near half-hour delay, were still enthusiastic. He then sought the audience’s prayers for a successful performance...