For all his firsts, Marclay doesn't have the revolutionary impulse; he wants to be part of an illustrious tradition.
This sport has an illustrious tradition of hunting and warfare dating to ancient Egyptian and Greek times.
A long and illustrious tradition of political cartooning has long existed, with Arab cartoonists highlighting high inflation and unemployment, or attacking common enemies, such as Israel and America.
For most of its history, New York was a military town with an illustrious tradition, but these days uniforms are a rarity, following decades of base closings.
"They felt their competitive advantage was to trade on the romanticism and illustrious tradition that no one could match," Mr. Chernow said.
Digging deep into our long, illustrious tradition of presidential dirt, a new book by Peter J. Hatch, "A RICH SPOT OF EARTH": Thomas Jefferson's Revolutionary Garden at Monticello (Yale University, $35), lovingly describes the 1,000-foot 1,000-footegeterracedrden that was restored to its 1812 appearance under the author's able direction.
With all these literary revenants hovering about, "The Ghost Writer" manages to evoke, as not enough contemporary horror does, both the confident past and the more anguished present of the genre, and even to suggest, slyly, that although the illustrious tradition of the genteel British ghost story remains with us, we need to be very, very careful about disturbing its rest.
What makes the following list of bizarre characters in the long, illustrious tradition of the papacy fascinating is their utter humanity -- sexual, compassionate, greedy, fearful, noble, criminal and thoroughly unpredictable.
Over the past 14 years, President Joel has built upon the illustrious tradition of this storied institution by placing a renewed emphasis on the student experience, academic excellence, Torah scholarship and communal involvement.
