Word: autographs
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...workers of Poland's Baltic coast understand and respond to. In the three weeks since the Gdansk strike began, Walesa (pronounced Vah-wen-sah) has become an authentic hero. Wherever he walked across the idle yard, workers would break into spontaneous applause. A few would run up for his autograph. Each evening when he climbed the flower-covered main gate to deliver news of the strike, the crowd would cheer and break into the Polish song Sto Lat (May He Live a Hundred Years). Manila March 10, 1986 The men wore loose-fitting barong tagalogs; many of the women, designer...
...weird," Jessi said later, sitting at her kitchen table, her pain medications lined up in front of her beside a glass of chocolate milk. The very word makes her sad. "For 20 years, no one knew my name. Now they want my autograph. But I'm not a hero. If it makes people feel good to say it, then I'm glad. But I'm not. I'm just a survivor. When I think about it, it keeps me awake at night...
...Right through the aftermath of the 2004 election. In its concentration on the Air America stint, the film inevitably covers much the same material as last year?s Left of the Dial. But it?s a frank-seeming portrait of a man who can always attract a crowd of autograph seekers, even at the Republican National Convention of 2004. (Franken takes it in stride, noting, ?In this country, celebrity trumps ideology.?) He is a kind of crucial figure, for he straddles a span that continues to shrink: the space between politicians who want to be more TV-friendly and comedians...
...most memorable aspects of making the movie for Reitman was meeting popular, award-winning actors. He recalls the first time he met Duvall. “I was like, ‘Hi, it’s really nice to meet you…can I have your autograph?” Additionally, the star-struck Reitman says that because of the cast’s prominence, he was willing to give them more control over their lines and actions in the film. Brody, the quirky yet strangely attractive teenager from...
...Mexico, into McAllen, Texas, and asked U.S. border agents for political asylum. The first sign that he was no ordinary defector came when the agents ran a computer check on his identity. "All of a sudden," recalls the Cuban, "they were shaking my hand, congratulating me, asking for my autograph." Was he a political dissident? A pop singer? A baseball pitcher? In fact, in his own realm he was an even bigger catch. He was Rolando Sarabia, 23, a star of Cuba's National Ballet, whose spectacular performances have won him a reputation among dance aficionados as another Mikhail Baryshnikov...