Word: legendizing
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...shows before. In fact, Saint Laurent has reportedly attended only one other fashion show ever. What brought the semi-reclusive designer out to the Jardin des Plantes? Ask Sidney Toledano, president and chief executive of Christian Dior Couture, and he'll tell you: fraternit*. After all, Karl Lagerfeld, another legend who now designs for Chanel, was backstage taking photographs. And John Galliano, Dior's women's designer, was watching with actress Cate Blanchett in tow. "It was a great moment for Paris," Toledano said...
...Part of Earnhardt's legend is the time he crawled out of an ambulance and limped back to his mangled car after learning it was still driveable. This time he hit the wall and didn't move. But for Earnhardt, at 49, to die at the top of his sport and the height of his popularity, on NASCAR's biggest stage? That may be as good, and as poignant, as sport gets, even if sports fans generally like their life-and-death struggles a little more on the metaphorical side. And by Monday morning everybody in America had gotten...
...Swim test. While undergraduates are no longer required to take this particular arbitrary test of adequacy (don't worry, there are many others, like Freshman Seminar applications and grades) the president, according to legend, must always be prepared for the eventuality that his or her behemoth cruise ship founders upon an iceberg. Ice floes in the Charles River simulate the freezing conditions of the North Atlantic...
...unsurprisingly so; in Othello Shakespeare shows us that love and jealousy are two sides of the same emotional coin. This lesson appears in the history of Valentine's Day itself. The legend of St. Valentine reads that an early Christian bishop was imprisoned and executed for marrying young couples in violation of a decree by the Roman Emperor Claudius. Claudius believed that marriage was preventing his young soldiers from being adequately militaristic. He was a jealous husband, demanding his soldiers' hearts in their entirety, construing a loyalty to their lovers as a betrayal of his army...
...more than 30 theaters, mostly showing local movies. Sihanouk himself, now the country's King, was an enthusiastic producer, director, scriptwriter, star and music composer. One of the era's classics was 1960's Puos Keng Kang (The Snake King) by director Tea Lim Kun, which retold a Cambodian legend of a peasant woman seduced by the king of the snakes...