Cramer "relentlessly, pulverizingly tells us that the man wasn't worthy of the legend built up around him, " Allen Barra wrote in Salon.
"If an American can achieve that feeling in an Englishman 200 years after the events simply by representing Napoleon, I don't see how the legend will ever die, " he said.
You don't have to believe that legend, but Henry Plantagenet, later Henry II of England, husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine and the father of Lionhearted, did, and he came here to pray to the Black Madonna that still looks down on those who come to the little chapel by the tomb where the hermit's body was found.
We hope this policy making by urban legend trend doesn't spread to other areas, such as organ donation.
Men and women in red T-shirts, bearing the legend Republican Leadership Conference are striding around carrying boxes and chairs.
Several hundred people packed the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, where John Legend, Common and T-Pain performed.
The American legend sang "Isn't She Lovely" with lyrics re-worked for the occasion: "Isn't she special, a young 86-years old, " he crooned.
While the rest of the world reacted with stunned disbelief -- legend has it several British newspapers didn't report the score at first, fearing that it had been mistyped and England had really won 10-0 -- back home Team USA's exploits had been met with almost complete indifference.
Pirlo was a club legend, but he was also expensive and hadn't had a great season.
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At his peak, Jones was beautiful: the fastest hands and feet since an early Muhammad Ali, the knockout power of Tommy Hearns, more angles than Pythagoras, the reflexes of featherweight legend Willie Pep - so quick, you couldn't hit him with a handful of sugar.
Annika Sorenstam's career has run almost entirely parallel with that of U.S. golfing legend Tiger Woods, and comparisons between the two aren't without basis.
Yet apart from age (the Homestead opened in 1766), a Southern sensibility, sprawling grounds (3, 000 acres here), and a claim on the legacy of the late golf legend and local boy Sam Snead, the pair don't share many similarities.
But she doesn't "get" Helena she has imagined her only as a legend, not a person, and has missed the clues that the "romance" Helena mentions just might have once involved Helena.
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