Word: legendizing
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William Faulkner wrote that the Delta was "deswamped and denuded, and derivered in two generations." Some planters made money, but not nearly as much as legend would have it. There was always another enemy. Land was the staple, usually mortgaged. Nature provided floods, droughts and plant diseases. Bourbon eased some of the pain but brought on its own. The Delta became a place of wild contrast: the lowest poverty and humility alongside the highest pretension and arrogance...
When a cluster of five Navy Avenger planes was found off the coast of Fort Lauderdale last month, salvage experts were sure they had at last found Flight 19. Known as the Lost Squadron, its disappearance in 1945 had helped launch the legend of the Bermuda Triangle. Preliminary evidence seemed to support the experts' conclusion: the identifying numbers of two of the planes were the same, as was the number of downed aircraft...
...face last week, high-tech salvagers who found the planes announced they were not the Lost Squadron after all. They appeared to be five separate aircraft that had crashed within 1 1/2 miles of each other on individual training missions. Still, Graham Hawkes, who headed the search, resisted the legend of the Triangle. "I don't know where Flight 19 is," he said. "But it's certainly in the ocean and not up with the aliens anywhere...
...purest breed of prejudice. They hate all blacks for the sins of some blacks; they resent the black male for his perceived genital superiority. The film's title announces as much. This is a story, Lee says, "about two people who came together because of sexual mythology." The legend on a jacket worn by one of Lee's colleagues at last month's Cannes Film Festival put the matter bluntly: JUNGLE FEVER, OR FEAR OF THE BIG BLACK DICK...
WHILE OTHER STUDENTS TRUDGE between classes, libraries and dining halls, Wong leaves myth and legend in her wake. (Like Brother Blue and the Dial-A-Menu Man, she is some-thing of a campus folk hero, dashing around on her fluorescent bike.) Even during reading period, while most people hibernate in Lamont and Hilles, she manages to create excitement...