Word: legendizing
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...higher power is taking an interest. And Jordan's charisma, legend and sheer presence can do nothing but good for the Wizards...
...consequences of old wrongs and human orneriness. He remains alert to signs of hope and finds one in the story of the late SuAnne Big Crow, a high-school basketball star whose exploits and character united the reservation in pride. Like her ancestors, Big Crow lives on in legend...
Anderson's "re-vision" is clear from the film's off-kilter start, recounting the occurrence of several supremely bizarre deaths so coincidentally staged they seem sure to be the stuff of urban legend. And yet, as the unidentified narrator assures, they are absolute fact. "These strange things happen all the time," he offers with an invisible smirk. Inventive and charmingly frank as this introduction is, what's even craftier is that no such odd confluence of circumstance proceeds to occur in any one of the eight intersecting storylines that make up the rest of the film. In fact...
...will leave it all behind for the next cycle, just as cycle after cycle used it and used it and used it and left it for us. Military waste may be legend, but it does not exist here; the trainee's Army is a thrifty place. The grenades we throw do not explode - just one, and it is one to savor - and the mops we clean with invariably look dirtier than the floor...
Little is known of the life and development of Giotto di Bondone, born around 1267 to peasants in the bucolic valleys outside Florence. Legend says the country boy tending his flocks was discovered by the painter Cimabue, who saw him draw a fine sheep upon a rock. A more likely tale has him haunting Cimabue's Florentine bottega until the painter made him an apprentice. There Giotto absorbed his mentor's strength of drawing and sense of drama, but nature was his true teacher. He divined how to depict, with brush and pigment, the human body according to the prescription...