Word: ascent
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Unlike Nixon, Agnew was not granted tragic hero status, primarily because he had nowhere to fall from. Although Agnew had rapidly risen from obscurity to national prominence like Nixon, his ascent was never considered a mark of political acumen or leadership skill. In fact, his selection as Nixon's running mate has been primarily attributed to his bitter outburst at Baltimore's black leaders and to the machinations of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond. In his outburst, Agnew blamed Stokely Carmichael's presence in Baltimore for the riots in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. Such lunacy...
...John Gotti was anything, we learn, he was a man consumed by feelings. The film tracks Gotti's ascent from an impetuous Gambino soldier in the early '70s--the kind of guy who would quickly eliminate a colleague who performed poorly on a hit--to a media-worshipped don who for years remained invincible to prosecution. Assante's glamour works to his advantage as he captures Gotti's magnetic blend of arrogance and affability and thick-necked earnestness. Gotti ruled by gut and fist, and he had little tolerance for the mahogany-paneled sedateness of dons like Carlo Gambino...
...Francesco Scavullo says she was such a natural beauty that he would have made her a star even without her famous surname. "You could put her out in the sunlight in the middle of the day and she looked like an angel," he recalls. But others credited her rapid ascent to the Hemingway mystique. "As celebrity became aristocracy, it became inheritable," says former Interview magazine editor Bob Colacello, who knew Hemingway as part of the crowd at the now legendary Studio 54. "She inherited this fame and this position." Hemingway later said she felt like an imposter in that world...
Still, it is Bela whom Moceanu credits with kicking her into high gear. Not long after his return to elite gymnastics in late '93, Moceanu won the junior national title and began her meteoric ascent through the senior ranks. "His presence counts a whole lot," Moceanu says. She insists that Bela returned a changed man. No more yelling or name calling. "But he can be strict and tough," she says. "It works better with...
...whistle him out of the stadium--Europe's equivalent of a Bronx cheer. The debacle was so startling that some observers began composing Bubka's professional obituary. Less than two months later, however, he was back in form and set a new record at a meet in Italy. The ascent has continued, with only minor interruptions, ever since...