Word: acclaim
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...Their fans didn't, though. Their shows became available on VHS and DVD; The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 16-Ton Megaset was issued to general acclaim earlier this year. CDs? They've got about a dozen of them. Some 60 Python books can be found on Alibris, the most imposing being The Pythons, a gigantic hexabiography with input from the five surviving members. (Chapman died...
...Robert Redford's con-man mentor in the Oscar-winning The Sting; in Englewood, New Jersey. The Mississippi native and onetime prizefighter lent his mellifluous voice and astute, low-key style to such Broadway shows as The Gospel at Colonus and All God's Chillun Got Wings, and won acclaim in 1962 for the off-Broadway Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, which co-starred his son and fellow baritone, James Earl Jones...
...played Robert Redford's con-man mentor in the Oscar-winning The Sting; in Englewood, N.J. The Mississippi native and onetime prizefighter lent his mellifluous voice and astute, low-key style to such Broadway shows as The Gospel at Colonus and All God's Chillun Got Wings and won acclaim off-Broadway for Moon on a Rainbow Shawl in 1962--which co-starred his son and fellow baritone, James Earl Jones...
...prize) and sold The Memory Keeper's Daughter in 2003. It was a mild success in hardcover - it sold well for literary fiction - but nothing like the phenomenon it's become in paperback. "I've been writing seriously for 20-plus years, and getting a certain level of critical acclaim," she says. "I haven't felt like I've been writing in obscurity, let's say that. I felt like I've had an audience for my work. I've had a wonderful reception...
Finally, Álvaro Uribe Vélez, the staunchest American ally in Latin America, was re-elected president of Colombia in May. A conservative who was first elected in 2002 and holds a certificate in Administration and Management from Harvard, Uribe has won acclaim for improving security in a nation long ravaged by drug cartels, Marxist insurgent groups, and right-wing paramilitaries—although some have accused him of having ties to these groups...