Word: legendizing
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...combat zone was at hand. Yet for more than a century, bloody civil strife has roiled the region embraced by Mingo County, W. Va., and Pike County, Ky. There in the late 1800s, the Hatfield and McCoy families began a feud so lethal and long that it became legend. Then in 1920 the early struggles of the region's coal miners to unionize exploded into a fray that left nine people dead and is still remembered as "the Matewan massacre." Now the area around the same little town of Matewan (pop. 822) is living up to its turbulent reputation...
Cleary was a legend, and during that championship season he oversaw an offense that averaged 5.62 goals per game, boasted a “line of fire” potent enough to scare the pros, and outscored its opponents by an even average of three goals per contest. Donato was a cog in Bill Cleary’s high-paced, jet-powered offense—but that was back then, and now, the name Ted Donato has taken on a second meaning in Harvard hockey lexicon: that of the winningest rookie coach in Crimson history, with this past season?...
While John Cole bowed to the Blodgett Pool crowd for the last time in February, the fans knew they were saying goodbye to a legend...
...that he’s 71, Nabokov, the only son of literary legend Vladimir, is being filmed for Russian television. The crew wants to shoot one of his race cars, perhaps a boat, and to ask him more than 30 questions composed in advance...
...years that followed, Arbus, with her I-dare-you-to-look pictures and her untimely death by suicide, would become a legend. Winogrand, who died in 1984, and Friedlander, now 70, settled for becoming enormously influential photographers. But it's only now, with this MOMA show of 500-plus images, that we understand how fiercely delightful and original Friedlander is. If a sophisticated notion of what a picture can look like, the continuous construction of new avenues of feeling, and sheer, sustained inventiveness are the measures we go by, then Friedlander is one of the most important American artists...