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Granada had the Alhambra, the legendary palace of the Moors, but the Algarve also possessed a city straight out of Arabian Nights.
A new biography of Billy Tipton--an obscure jazzman who was revealed, only at death, to have been a jazzwoman--elevates its subject into the "pantheon of legendary women who have successfully passed as men" (Holly Brubach, the New York Times Book Review ). Middlebrook, a professor at Stanford, uses Tipton to support the postmodernist contention that gender is a historic construction, but critics mostly wax prurient.
A courtier worthy of Shakespeare, Holbrooke is legendary for his flattery and back stabbing, and even for buttering someone up and sticking the knife in at the same time.
The op-ed writer makes the point that his grandfather's probity was legendary and that he in fact was the man who put Luciano away.
Ceramic polychrome figurines of historic or legendary personages are popular, as are little animals, with the panda the most sought after.