Word: legendizing
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LOOKING SWEET According to local legend, the 1,268 Chocolate Hills of Bohol were formed when a giant shed tears upon learning his lover had died. Scientists insist they are vestiges of a millennia-old tidal pattern. Whatever their origins, the hills look like a sea of 30-m-tall, slightly melted Hershey's Kisses, especially in the dry season (December to May) when they turn a rich chocolaty brown. To see the hills up close, arrange a motorbike tour from the nearby town of Carmen, in the center of the island...
...thinks she's Peter Pan") but the cover art made it reasonably clear the vegetable of the title referred to part of the male anatomy. It boasted one of the best covers of a Beatles song ever, ("Happiness is a Warm Gun," fittingly) and made Kim Deal a minor legend independent of the Pixies...
...from back trouble, but he looks remarkably fit when seen, usually sitting or standing, on TV. Invariably he now appears wearing immaculately tailored suits in place of the green army fatigues he once favored. Iraqis say he has not worn his uniform publicly since 1998, when, according to local legend, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told him his image would vastly improve if he donned a statesman's suit instead...
...those who send out human bombers to blow themselves and Israelis apart in restaurants and cafes. And the Palestinians sent their message in return: they can kill Israelis in Palestinian towns just as well as in Tel Aviv. Under the slabs of fallen masonry in Jenin is a new legend of martyrdom and heroism, one that will be used in years to come to stiffen the sinews of those who would fight against Israeli rule: mailed fist met by defiant resistance. Written in the twisted metal and crushed cinder block of Jenin is the new reality of an old conflict...
...Count Basie Orchestra, Young (known as "Pres," short for "President of the Tenor Saxophone") created some of the most memorable recordings in American music. Douglas Henry Daniels, a professor of History and Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has spent more than two decades investigating the legend of Lester Young, and the result is his new biography, "Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester 'Pres' Young" (Beacon Press; 524 pages...