Word: legendizing
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...central relationship. It is not romantic, between Lois and Clark. It's familial--the bond of two sets of fathers and sons: Jor-El and Superman, then Superman and Jason. Each parent tells his child that he must surpass the old man's feats, improve on Dad's legend. Poignantly, this strength, this divinity, isolates Superman from Earth's humans. He can save them but not be one of them. Lois can love him but never understand...
...have five cars, but your favorite is your '93 Acura Legend? Yeah, it always brings me back to the mentality I had before I was a star. And it still runs the same...
...Queen's Wake will sell for €8,000 each, with a smaller flacon de voyage at €350. Q-Cups The Ancienne Manufacture Royale de Limoges at Bernardaud has reproduced the Queen's porcelain including the Jatte-téton bowl, which, according to legend, was molded on the royal bosom...
...everywhere. It was his name that filled collection boxes in extremist mosques across the Islamic world. The National Counterterrorism Center believes that militants linked to al-Zarqawi may be operating in as many as 40 countries. In Iraq his dark charisma turned him into a figure of myth and legend. A top commander of al-Nasser Salaheddin, an insurgent group, told TIME last month, "When children in Fallujah and Ramadi play war games, some will be mujahedin, others will be Americans, but the role everybody wants to play is Abu Mousab. The biggest, toughest boy will get that role...
...STAR Meryl Streep is not a star. A legend, but not a star. At least not in the business sense. Everyone acknowledges her talent, but very few can be relied on to turn out for a movie just because she's in it. Her last film, Prime, sank without a trace. At least one of her two new films--A Prairie Home Companion, a gentle comedy based on Garrison Keillor's radio show--will be lucky to draw much of a crowd--and it has Lindsay Lohan...