Word: legendizing
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...Clinton era, and Julia Ormond's Guinevere is all up-to-date feminist spunk. The Camelot of Jerry Zucker's "First Knight," says TIME's Richard Schickel, is more a modern gated community than a myth-enshrouded, 6th century realm. And the great romance that was played out there -- legend's ur-Triangle -- comes across as not much more consequential than suburban adultery: "One can easily imagine Guinevere and Lancelot as Gwen and Lance, furtively smooching on the 18th tee during a country-club dance, or stealing glances across a crowded PTA meeting." Still, Schickel admits, "the scenery is always...
UNDER TREATMENT. MICKEY MANTLE, 63, baseball legend; for "light rejection" of his recently acquired liver transplant; in Dallas. Doctors put the beloved former Yankee on steroids and say his prognosis is still good...
Thayer is embroiled in a stupid but fun rivalry with nearby Holworthy Hall. Legend has it that the dispute originated when Holworthy was built on Thayer's polo ground, or vice versa, depending on who you ask. The rivalry usually surfaces in "Holworthy Sucks...
...portrait of a princess of the spirit. Instead of reducing the historical character to a cardboard placard of goodness, the film gives her an impish curiosity and willfulness. Because she also has a classical heroine's sense of quest, the picture's Pocahontas rises above stodgy old legend into the sky of myth; and there she soars, eagle-like, watching over the land and its contentious people. That's apt for a role model for any child, red or white. And it's perfect for a film romance that earns a place of honor among Disney's latter-day animated...
Hanging up in his office in the maintenance shed is a souvenir print of an Indian in a headdress with this legend underneath: around this camp, there's only one chief. Smith, whose tribal name is Running Bear, is a benevolent chief. He is unfailingly considerate of his crew members, making sure they have enough money for lunch, enough passes for the Open, enough rest for what he calls "the war" -- when 156 golfers and 30,000 fans a day invade Shinnecock. A 1975 Dartmouth graduate, Smith thought he might become a teacher or a banker. "My father never meant...