Word: legendizing
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FREED. BOBBY FISCHER, 62, vitriolic chess legend; after being detained for eight months in Japan for an alleged passport violation; upon being granted citizenship in Iceland, where he is a hero for his 1972 victory over rival Boris Spassky. Fischer, whose extradition was sought by the U.S. for violating sanctions against the former Yugoslavia by playing a re-match there against Spassky in 1992, flew to Reykjavik and publicly denounced the U.S. as "hypocritical and corrupt...
Which of course explains a second aspect of Donato’s legend across the River—the product of his penchant for disappearing on towel runs and returning with a van that wasn’t quite the van it used to be, on more than one occasion...
...Ladies and gentlemen, Mogwai.” The first sound on Mogwai’s Government Commissions: BBC Sessions 1996-2003 is the voice of John Peel, the British radio legend who died of a heart attack last year at the age of 65. A smattering of applause, and we?...
...want to widen your dance repertoire beyond salsa and tango, there's always hula. Long before Captain James Cook arrived on the island of Kauai in 1778, Hawaiians were performing the hypnotic dance. Though its origins are steeped in legend, the hula is thought to have been brought to Hawaii by Polynesian immigrants more than 1,500 years ago. The stylized hand and foot gestures are meant to mirror natural phenomena like swaying palms and waterfalls, and are always accompanied by rhythmic chants. Grass skirts, leis and decorative ferns, nuts and shells, are intended to symbolize the integration of nature...
...want to widen your dance repertoire beyond salsa and tango, there's always hula. Long before Captain James Cook arrived on the island of Kauai in 1778, Hawaiians were performing the hypnotic dance. Though its origins are steeped in legend, the hula is thought to have been brought to Hawaii by Polynesian immigrants more than 1,500 years ago. The stylized hand and foot gestures are meant to mirror natural phenomena like swaying palms and waterfalls, and are always accompanied by rhythmic chants. Grass skirts, leis and decorative ferns, nuts and shells, pictured, are intended to symbolize the integration...