Word: legendizing
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...Tuesday Al Shepard was old enough. The original seven are now down to four. America's heady days of giant leaps are receding into the past, their passing marked by the deaths of her pioneers. Alan Shepard's rank in that history is that of legend...
...legend about the origin of the name is that it was a playful acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle." Yang, however, says they picked it out of a dictionary. "We thought it fit well with what we were doing. It was irreverent, it was reflective of the Wild West nature of the Internet, and a lot of people found it easy to remember, which we thought was probably good." Yang also says that when he asked Moritz if they should change the name to something more serious, Moritz replied that if they did, he'd take back his money...
...well-liked Nordmann. That suggests Rudolph may be trying to move toward an endgame, an impression reinforced by one other detail: The fugitive reportedly asked Nordmann for a detailed map of were the federal agents are staying. So far his exploits seem calculated to make him a legend in the fringe world of right-wing militias and antigovernment enclaves, despite the fact that his only noteworthy achievement is to be suspected in terrorist bombing attacks on innocent civilians...
...sound a lot less convincing coming from a multimillionaire trial lawyer if Edwards didn't do a persuasive job of selling what he also is: the son of a small-town (Robbins, N.C., pop. 970 ) textile-mill worker and a shop owner. Offering his version of the log-cabin legend, Edwards likes to tell about visiting Washington for the first time in 1976 as a law school student with a summer internship at the Securities and Exchange Commission. After climbing aboard a bus, he was humiliated by the driver when he didn't know what to do with his fare...
...many lies" and a fetishistic--my word--tendency to make too big a deal out of trivia such as Rat Pack slang and haberdashery. "I don't understand this searching for things that weren't there," he says. "It's like a hunger." One senses that being a living legend--the others, of course, are no longer with us--is an awful kind of limbo. It is as if the world were telling him, "Roll over, let go already...