Word: legendizing
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...made five films - Born to Defence (1986), The Master (1989), Once Upon a Time in China (1991), Fist of Legend (1994) and Fearless (2006) - in which he protects his countrymen from cruel and rapacious foreigners, mostly Americans. In 1994's The New Legend of Shaolin, he is a Han Chinese rebel fighting against Qing (or Manchu, and thus foreign) rule. In Hero (2002), Li is an assassin who, to his own detriment, abstains from an attempt on the life of the Qin King, who goes on to become the venerated Qin Shi Huangdi, the first Emperor of China...
...Colbert Christmas Stephen Colbert spikes the Xmas punch with Willie Nelson as a weed-toting Wise Man, Jon Stewart ambivalently praising Hanukkah and John Legend crooning a hilariously filthy ode to nutmeg. This is to earnest holiday specials what truthiness is to truth...
Still, the lack of an academic department devoted to new media has not stopped some students from pursuing multimedia studies. Last year, Charlie I. Miller ’08 devised a VES senior thesis that retold the Faust legend as what he calls “a multimedia production that fully integrated video and live performance.” The project, entitled “Username: Faust,” heavily utilized YouTube and other Internet components to convey a virtual reality world that replaced the spiritual realm of the original Faust myth. Miller praises his adviser, VES Professor Alfred...
...reader can identify. While he may be a narcissist, a pompous jerk, and a pathological liar, he is not defined by those qualities alone. Motivated by commercial opportunism, Zollner is initially attracted to Kaminski only to advance his own interests. But after spending time with the man behind the legend, he realizes that there is just too much to capture, that life is too rich to be commercialized. He sees that there is more to life than merely enterprise and decides to throw away the notepad on which he has scribbled copious notes, but to keep intact the camera memory...
...about 60 percent of the kids who started with us at go on to boarding schools or private schools," says Anderson. Enter Korn's father, Rick, a former player who helped coach his own son to the Division-I level; Bob Turco, a Harlem-born lacrosse coaching legend who played his way to Washington and Lee University in the '70s; and Ross Turco, Bob's son and former high school All-America and D-I player who now coaches at Peddie, an elite boarding school in Hightstown, New Jersey. The well-connected trio, along with the school's director...