Word: acclaim
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Twentieth century Washington hostesses wielded such political power that they achieved wider public acclaim. Perle Mesta, known as "the hostess with the mostest," became Harry Truman's ambassador to Luxembourg, the inspiration for the Irving Berlin musical Call Me Madam and the subject of a 1949 cover story in this magazine. Bill Clinton posted Pamela Harriman as his ambassador to France. It was the least the President could do for a woman who used her talent for entertaining, and her husband's money, to bring fractious Democrats together in the 1980s, eventually uniting them behind the young Governor of Arkansas...
...seemed like a perfect union of literary acclaim and Bollywood glitz. He: a Booker Prize-winning author and one of India's most acclaimed literary exports. She: a gorgeous model-turned-actress turned cooking-show host. Little wonder then that this week's announcement that Salman Rushdie and Padma Lakshmi are splitting after just three years of marriage is front page news across India, the country of their births if not their main residence...
...keep the contraption in place. By all accounts, the performance was well-received, and within months, Plan B’s members would be the youngest performers at the Ladyfest East expo in Brooklyn, N.Y., a festival dedicated to supporting women artists. Plan B still screams to much acclaim at Cambridge clubs and campus events—though the band’s name continues to perplex some audience members. “Fellow students ask if we’re affiliated with the birth control,” Klein says. (They are not.) In the past year, Klein...
...independently finance the plays they wanted to see performed. The American debut of Jean Genet’s play “Deathwatch” was one such independent undertaking, produced by John M.S.W. Eyre ’57. Also directed by Aaron, the play earned the critical acclaim of The Crimson and was later invited to perform at the Yale Drama Festival in the spring...
...under a New York City highway, clothing executive Harvey Weinstein awed his family and colleagues by simply going on with his life. But the story of the Marine vet's survival in the face of the nightmare--he recited his life story to stay sane--won him national acclaim. One of the worst moments, according to Weinstein? Finding out that one of his captors was an employee...