Word: legendizing
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Goldfarb is a slight, bearded man, often casually dressed in jeans and black Reeboks. Hardcovered philosophy books line the shelves of his large office, and a depiction of a cow amidst grass with the legend "Outstanding in the Field" adorns a mug sitting in the middle of his somewhat cluttered desk...
Fisher is now Williston professor of law emeritus, a pioneer in the field of negotiation, a legend at the Law School, and one of the several members of the class of 1943 who came back to teach at the University after graduating...
...common with the two singer-writers represented here. Since humor on these two albums is in short supply, it is interesting to speculate on what Lardner might have made of Terence Trent D'Arby's "T.I.T.S."/"F&J," an exceedingly unlikely -- beautifully unlikely -- evocation of the Frankie and Johnny legend. Or what he would have done with Janet Jackson's Throb ("I can feel your body/ pressed against my body/ when you start to poundin'/ love to feel you throbbin'/ throb/ throb/ throb"). Or what it might have done to him. Cole Porter might even have got a formal apology...
...resident of Adams House when the pool was shut down three years ago, Nash sought to clarify that it was closed because of leakage--not, as legend has it, because of the unruly antics of pool users...
...Balls," Samuel Fuller snarled as he explained the problems of today's movie industry, "It takes balls to make a good film." The octogenarian Hollywood legend was speaking in the basement of Sever Hall as part of the Avignon/Cambridge '93 film workshop. Though the panel included three other directors and two actors, Fuller managed to dominate the discussion in his characteristically brash yet lovable style...