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...borrows liberally from Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love" (Test: sing "Fantasy's" verses to yourself and then sing "Heartbreaker's" verses. See?) And worst of all--and those of you who read this column last week know just how unforgivable I think this is--she's an awards whore. She's one of those celebrities who shows up at every awards show that's she's nominated for--and even the one's for which she's not nominated (Mariah, if you're not nominated, you can't win). The MTV's, the People's Choice, the Cable...
...Peace Prize went Friday to Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), the universally acclaimed humanitarian aid organization that is often first into the world's hot spots. It was an uncontroversial choice, avoiding both the ruffling of feathers and the risk of disappointment. China had lobbied intensely against the award going to exiled dissidents Wang Dan and Wei Jingshen, but it is hard to accuse the Nobel Committee of tiptoeing around Beijing after it awarded the prize to the Dalai Lama in the year of the Tiananmen Square killings...
...With one of last year's recipients, Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble, having turned out to be something less than the visionary peacemaker that the award would imply after he put the kibosh on Northern Ireland's Good Friday peace agreement, committee members could be forgiven for casting a skeptical eye over 1999's other front-runners: U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan may be the world's preeminent peacemaker, but he was left flailing helplessly on the sidelines as the Kosovo conflict took shape and East Timor descended into anarchy. Similarly, U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke's previous efforts...
...been Trying Times at Center High ever since the news broke last month that Rivers, 44, a popular and award-winning teacher, had been relieved of her duties by the local school board. Some 200 teachers and students staged a protest, chanting, "Two, four, six, eight--we demand a reinstate." Television trucks bristling with satellite dishes surrounded the tidy campus. And last week dissident parents served three school-board trustees with election-recall petitions. "I'm overwhelmed," says Rivers. "I expected an uneventful transition...
...just Garth who's desperate for acclaim. In fact, a good way to categorize celebrities might be those who want to be embraced by the world and those who just don't give a damn. Madonna, for instance, has a conniption every time she loses at an awards show (if you watched the Grammys closely last year, you might have seen her raging competitive fire). Even Steven Spielberg--who has everything, everything a man could possibly want in life--called his first Oscar "the best drink of water after the longest drought in my life." What the hell! Who cares...