Word: legendizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hope" - stoked an endless stream of sequels, threequels and prequels, some inspired only by greed for blockbuster status they will never attain. Among this summer's underperformers are a sequel (The Chronicles of Riddick), a roundup of old movie monsters (Van Helsing) and two dips into antique legend (Troy and King Arthur). Studios might have risked less if they'd actually tried something original. Sequels flourish especially in conservative times, when audiences are in retreat from the shock of the new. Which is why you could place a small bet on a Bush re-election; voters may choose the sequel...
...hardly surprising that the legends of Brazilian football - Pele, Garrincha, Rivelino, Socrates, Zico all the way through to Ronaldo and Ronaldinho - are mostly strikers and attacking midfielders best remembered for their dazzling goals. German fans and international cognoscenti will certainly concur that their country's greatest ever footballer is Franz Beckenbauer, who patrolled in front of his defense in order to win the ball for his midfield. By contrast, the only Brazilian defenders who enter the pantheon of greats are those such as Junior and Roberto Carlos, remembered not for the goals they prevented but for those they scored...
...Tracking HIV Yunnan is China's fourth largest province and historically one of its most mysterious and remote. (Its picturesque landscape of verdant hills and rustic villages inspired the legend of Shangri-La.) Its distance from the political leaders in Beijing has traditionally made it something of an outlaw province, home to dozens of minority groups and, in centuries past, feudal warlords who ruled with nearly absolute control. Today it is the gateway for heroin traffic that drifts into China from Burma, Vietnam and Laos...
...Hope"--stoked an endless stream of sequels, threequels and prequels, some inspired only by greed for blockbuster status they will never attain. Among this summer's underperformers are a sequel (The Chronicles of Riddick), a roundup of old movie monsters (Van Helsing) and two dips into antique legend (Troy and King Arthur). Studios might have risked less if they'd actually tried something original...
...main event is the renowned Edinburgh International Festival, which was created in 1947 by Rudolf Bing, then general manager of Glyndebourne Opera and later general manager of New York City's Metropolitan Opera. Various royals and city fathers became involved, inviting groups to attend. But legend has it that eight groups came uninvited, booked their own halls and launched what has come to be known as the Festival Fringe--an eclectic gathering of street performers, experimental theater, stand-up comics, musicians and much more. "[The founders'] aim after the war was to bring the nations of the world together through...