Of mixed African and Spanish descent, he combined a knowledge of traditional literary form with firsthand experience of the speech, legends, songs, and sones (popular dances) of the Afro-Cubans in his first volume of poetry, Motivos de son (1930; "Motifs of Son"), which was soon hailed as a masterpiece and widely imitated.
Since the northwestern portion of Meso-America was occupied by such people and since they were Nahua in speech, the legends of periodic north south migrations of invaders, though they may have a factual basis, probably refer to movements of agricultural rather than hunting and gathering peoples.
In her speech accepting the "Legend Award", Mirren hit out at the male dominated industry after Sam Mendes cited his all-male film inspirations when receiving a gong earlier in the evening.
It wears its research on its sleeve, at times a little obviously: In the course of writing this review, I found one speech, regarding a legend about the Crucifixion and God granting Gypsies the right to steal "without moral consequences," with only slightly different language in a 2001 article in Police: The Law Enforcement Magazine (www.policemag.com).
His stories and speeches had become legend and this one was his finest and what rang out the most to me was the truth in his statement of "We all know the reason you do shit is because of the Marine to your left and the Marine to you right.
He was rewarded with applause, hurrahs, and women's handkerchiefs, and the speech soon passed into legend.
*There are CBEs for Colin Firth, star if the acclaimed film The King's Speech, and 1970s rock legend, Bryan Ferry.
The crisis ended in Mr. Sobchak's "starry hour," as 180,000 Russians jammed into Palace Square in Leningrad — to hear a speech that passed into legend, urging the populace to press ahead toward freedom.
Go ahead and snicker about how last night's eagerly awaited surprise convention speech by a Hollywood legend turned out to be an 11-minute ramble by a rumple-haired guy, 82 years old, talking without notes to an imaginary Barack Obama in an empty chair.
His emotional speech recognized the living legend's incredible talent, work ethic and fashion sense.
