Word: legendizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...columnist for the Times, Geist suggests a mix of Kuralt, Joe Mitchell and the ?Daily Show? traveling circus. A copy of the Jack Barth-Ken Smith classic ?Roadside America? in his back pocket, he visits the Museum of Towing, enters a BGA (Bad Golfers Association) tournament, investigates the Mothman legend in West Virginia, crashes the Exotic World Burlesque Museum & Striptease Hall of Fame, attends the Fruitcake demolition derby (that piece has to be retired) or just walks home the night of last August?s blackout. Stoic bafflement - a deadpan stare into the camera - is Geist?s usual game. But, when...
...Legend has it that Martin Luther had his eureka moment, which sparked the Protestant Reformation, while sitting on the toilet. Here at Harvard, we all aspire to alter history in our own ways, and nearly all of us spend a few minutes a day pondering existence on the john...
...move on almost immediately. Public opinion deemed Timberlake’s cursory initial apology sufficient; Jackson was forced to issue repeated statements of regret, first in print and later in a plaintive televised version. She was barred from last Sunday’s Grammy Awards; he performed with jazz legend Arturo Sandoval. “Saturday Night Live” compared Jackson to her brother Michael, an accused pedophile; Timberlake, who tore off her clothing, was portrayed in the skit as the naive victim...
...sciences, the assumption is that young people are the most effective workers,” Kirshner says. “Math and theoretical physics are examples where that’s the legend, if not an established fact. In observational astronomy, that is demonstrably not true—there was a reasonably good longitudinal study of astronomers that showed their publication records, anyway, did not decline with age up to about...
Being a friend to all can be a terrible burden, and inevitably there were those who found Jones' gentle omnipresence and memorable bio--her father is sitar legend Ravi Shankar, 83--a bit cloying. Skeptics were soon interpreting enthusiasm as hype and positing that Come Away with Me was merely a follow-up to the O Brother, Where Art Thou? sound track and Buena Vista Social Club--a pleasant little genre album that flattered its listeners' sense of eclecticism. Never mind that her success was the rare intersection of ubiquity and quality; to "real" music fans, the fact that nobody...