Word: legendizing
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...didn't take long for The College Dropout to develop coattails. Fashion-wise, you may have been blinded recently by the swarm of pink Polo shirts, while on the charts, West's friends John Legend, an R&B singer with a University of Pennsylvania degree, and Common, a whip-smart and austere Chicago rapper, both had sales spikes. West's Late Registration should push things further. "I didn't want to play it boring and safe," says West while sitting in the balcony of a 14th century church in Prague, one of the locations he hand-picked for the video...
...acts? Blaming verses from the Koran for attacks upon innocent people is just plain wrong. Shehla Naz Faizi Karachi Return to Hogwarts your report on J.K. Rowling and the latest installment in her fantasy series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, gave me new insight into a true legend of literature [July 25]. It was good to learn about her struggles as well as her triumphs as a writer. I had thought the Harry Potter books just flowed easily from Rowling's imagination. Now I understand that for Rowling, writing isn't magic, and that makes her books even...
...It’s tough,” Daly said early last night, as the J-Block filmed a spot for USA network outside the Flushing Meadows fountain. “Andre’s a legend. If it was anyone but James, I’d be rooting for Andre...
...What happened is the stuff of legend: in dense bush and on vertiginous mountain tracks, in sweltering heat and freezing cold, the young men checked and halted the Japanese advance. When the battle-hardened Australian 7th Division arrived back from the Middle East in support, the Japanese were doomed. Here in New Guinea, wrote Winston Churchill in his history of the conflict, "the tide of war" had turned. One measure of the intensity of the fighting is the fact that of Australia's 20 Victoria Crosses in the war, 12 were won in the Pacific. The Commonwealth's supreme decoration...
...novel, called Fan-Tan, which is about to be published in the latter form (Knopf; 272 pages) a bit more than a year after the death of the once great actor. The book is being blurbed as a "delectable romp" and as the "last surprise from an ever-surprising legend," both claims requiring some parsing...