Word: legendizing
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That was a fairly typical exchange between my 12-year-old son Nat and me back in January, at the height of his obsession with the Nintendo 64 game Legend of Zelda. We followed that script most nights. And it typically ended in his death--or rather that of his sword-wielding surrogate, the great man-boy hero Link...
...club) became obligatory. [Ed. Note: For those currently striving to fit in, check out the Harvard-insignia golf balls currently democratically available at the COOP for a mere $XXX]. Lawncare became a major summertime preoccupation and a major moneymaking industry. Lawn culture is now the stuff of American iconic legend: through shows like "King of the Hill" and films such as "Edward Scissorhands" and "The Burbs" to ads pushing everything from barbecues to beer, the Man And His Lawn archetype has been canonized...
...club) became obligatory. [Ed. Note: For those currently striving to fit in, check out the Harvard-insignia golf balls currently democratically available at the COOP for a mere $XXX]. Lawncare became a major summertime preoccupation and a major moneymaking industry. Lawn culture is now the stuff of American iconic legend: through shows like "King of the Hill" and films such as "Edward Scissorhands" and "The Burbs" to ads pushing everything from barbecues to beer, the Man And His Lawn archetype has been canonized...
...project because she felt Davis' music and wanted to express her own special brand of soul through it. She was still feeling it during last week's concert; so was her band, and so was the audience. Critics who charge that Wilson has turned the work of a legend into pop music need only to spend a few minutes watching this lady to know that nothing has been watered down--it has merely found new tongues...
...Legend has it that Harvard is inhabited by a tribe of pasty-faced "former" geeks for whom social life consists of reading Nietzsche into the wee hours and obsessively checking e-mail. That isn't true, of course...or at least, it isn't entirely true...