Word: legendizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...spectacularly unique flow, intermixing classics from his Pharcyde days with tracks from his recent solo effort, “The Loneliest Punk.” No one else has a single like “Writer’s Block”: “I coulda been a legend like Big and Pac/Instead I caught a bad case of writer’s block.” He seemed nervous, however, and didn’t even attempt to engage the crowd with the usual clichéd stage banter. When his hypeman filled in the other verses...
...Sundance Film Festival—brainchild of acting legend Robert Redford—arguably rivals Cannes and Toronto, the two other premiere film festivals of the world. According to Gilmore, what distinguishes Sundance from its international contemporaries is its more eclectic and wide ranging showcase, hardly limited to glamour, high culture, or nebulous...
...capable of being at the center of any good time." He is also a guy who understands the concept of synergy: on the back of the NASCAR book you'll find a snapshot of Batali (sunglasses, regal smile, a gold marker in hand for autographs) standing beside NASCAR legend Richard Childress--and next to them is a bottle of wine from the vineyard (called La Mozza) that Batali and Bastianich own in Tuscany...
...Know Me and In the Misty Moonlight--made the pop or country charts some 400 times; in Mexia, Texas. She drew unequaled praise from peers (Dolly Parton said Walker had "never written a bad song"; Willie Nelson last month released his CD of her songs; songwriting legend Harlan Howard called her the "greatest living songwriter of country music"), and she had Top 10 hits in every decade from...
...millennium or so ago, the archipelago from Hudson Bay through Nunavut to northern Greenland was inhabited by nomadic groups we now call the Dorset people. They were, according to Inuit legend, tall and gentle folk, and they hunted from the ice edge, harpooning seals and walruses with tools made of bone and ivory. When a slight warming period hit about 1,000 years ago, the ice receded. Bowhead whales moved in from Alaskan waters, followed by seafaring hunters from the Bering Strait. With their boats, those hunters, the forebears of Canadian Inuit, eventually spread east to Greenland. For reasons still...