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...have conducted a three-week political campaign that will go down as legend," Buchanan said. "We're going to recapture the sovereignty of our country...
...Jerry E. Lauretano, the barbershop's owner, whom HSA's own Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard calls "a living legend," said he is not bitter about being ousted from the building...
Kane's beguiling arrogance and neediness come straight from its creator. As Callow meticulously shows, George Orson Welles knew acclaim and misuse from early childhood. Declared a genius at three, staging Shakespeare in a toy playhouse at five, walking on water in his wading pool--the legend goes something like that--he was adrift in a strained family. His opera-loving mother died when he was nine, his suavely alcoholic father three years later. Welles would memorialize his mother in Kane and find father-sponsors in his prep-school principal, Broadway's John Houseman, RKO's George Schaefer. He would...
...birthday, he called it quits, and on Friday the Dolphins announced that Shula, a part-owner of the team, would become vice chairman of the board of directors. His replacement will probably be either former Dallas coach Jimmy Johnson, who had considerable success (two Super Bowl wins) replacing a legend (Tom Landry), or University of Florida coach Steve Spurrier, who would have less trouble in the N.F.L. than he did with Nebraska in last week's Fiesta Bowl...
...subject of Mapplethorpe's sadomasochism themed work; "The gay sensibility of the 1970's was celebratory," he says. "Men were dancing in the discos and going to the bars, and sex became a kind of religious experience--but Robert didn't capture that ecstasy." Considering the pervasiveness of the legend and the pornographic fascination of the life, it's hard to tell whether Mapplethorpe's work will outlast His reputation or whether it will fall prey to the difficulty pointed out by Stambolian...