Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joplin was born in the small oil-refinery town of Port Arthur, Texas, where her father was an engineer for Texaco. A docile, soft-faced child, she was a voluminous reader, and her grades were excellent. No incidents of her early childhood foreshadowed fame -or a life crudely bartered away in exchange for counterfeit thrills from drugs, sex and alcohol...
...local rock group called Big Brother and the Holding Company. "I might be the first hippie pin-up girl," she wrote back home ecstatically. Enclosed was a poster of the new Janis, slimmer, draped in swinging beads and bracelets. With her 1967 performance at Monterey she gained instant fame, a contract with New York Rock Promoter Albert Grossman, and shortly after the friendship of Grossman's new publicist, Myra Friedman...
...only two years she had leapfrogged from obscurity to national fame. In technique, tennis attire and hair style she had become the model for her generation of players. Having just become a princess of women's tennis, she was already being touted for empress...
...family's modest seven-room bungalow, just six blocks from the Holiday Park Courts, is a kind of Evert hall of fame, a storehouse for 250 trophies that the children have won over the years. Chrissie still shares a small bed room with Jeanne. It is typically teen...
...barbara ann." I've always felt a little sorry for the Beach Boys, because it is their singular misfortune to represent rock at its nadir, the post-payola early sixties. I've also resented the fact that they managed to ride surf music, that most dubious of forms, to fame and fortune. They don't do that sort of thing any more. Brian Wilson can't hear well enough to sing, the whole band struggled with the Maharishi, there was even a time when Mike Love Had All the Answers. Not to mention those two South Africans. What they...