Word: fame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...content with such modest fame and fortune, two years ago Stan turned his satirist's eye on TV and radio commercials, arrived at a simple notion: Why kid commercials when with a little effort the commercials and the kidding can be wrapped up together? The soft-selling, satirical commercial had been tried before, and except for a few engaging specimens such as Bert and Harry Piel of Piel's Beer, had fallen into limbo. Stan was undeterred. Incorporating himself in Los Angeles as Freberg, Ltd. ("but not very"), he took a Latin motto ("Ars gratia pecuniae...
...literature today is strewn with dead cats, of all sizes and philosophies--and they all stink. As Jurgen and Domnei and Figures of Earth collect their dust, one wonders at fashion and the "bitch-goddess" fame...
...Orchard). A critical admirer of the family's most agile sprout ("He is a good Christian boy, and he can do a lot better than rock 'n' roll"), Jesse stoutly declares that he isn't aiming to get ahead on another's fame: "I'm on my own and am trying to succeed...
...absolute revelation!"), and the New York City Opera's Susannah by Carlisle Floyd. Crowds also jammed the Grand Auditorium to hear Violinist Isaac Stern play three times with the Philadelphia Orchestra, turned out again when the Philadelphians and Pianist Van Cliburn played the piece that catapulted him to fame-Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto...
...celebrated shrine at Lourdes is the No. 1 pilgrimage center in Christendom, but the town of Lourdes exploits the shrine's fame with a brazen tastelessness that is alarming French churchmen. Chief offenders are the dealers in pious objects. In Lourdes, a Pyrenees town of only 16,000 inhabitants but more than 600 hotels, some 580 of the total 710 businesses deal solely in these gimmicky souvenirs of St. Bernadette Soubirous. Samples: neckties that glow at night with Bernadette's image, washable plastic Virgins in every size, corkscrews in the shape of Bernadette adoring the Virgin, fountain pens...