Word: legendizing
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Both Equus and Amadeus share the same pursuit of the beautiful, the same frustration with constrained quotidian life, the same mournful conviction that "lawyers and legends have little in common." Shaffer's characters ache to live in the world of legend...
DelVecchio certainly did. The Natick-native did his best imitation of Ted Williams (in the home of the Sox legend no less), going 4-4 with two homeruns, a double, a single and eight RBIs (a Beanpot record...
...second-floor window in the park's grand thoroughfare, there is a legend: "Main Street Marching Band, leading the parade since 1884. Conductors: Michael Eisner, Frank Wells. We work, while you whistle." In fact, Eisner, Disney's CEO, and Wells, the company's president, have headed the procession only since 1984, when they turned Mickey's mausoleum -- a slumbering empire of tranquil theme parks and tepid movies -- into Walt II. Or, rather, Walt 2, for Disney has expanded exponentially, its ambition and energy personified by the two bosses. At 4 a.m. one day last week, each man could be seen...
Rebuked by his own volunteers, Brown dispatched chief of staff B.T. Collins to restore order in the CCC. Collins saved the organization, but not without several dramatic confrontations that were embarrassing to the governor. At one meeting that has since become legend, a frustrated Collins responded to CCC worker complaints by downing a glass full of the pesticide...
...races on closed-circuit TV. There just isn't that much toexperience. As Vader wrote, "there are no manesand tail blowing, no bright silks, no sweat nobloodlines going back centuries, no Old Kentuckyhome," Wonderland runs ads featuring abasset houndnamed Buck-O with a rocket strapped to his backbeneath the legend, "The Basic Idea BehindGreyhound Racing." They're supposed to betongue-in-cheek. But that is the basic idea behindgreyhound racing. It's too damn fast. by the timeyou've figured out which dog is the one you beton, the race is over...