Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sitting Room Could this comedy about mutations found after a nuclear war really be a masterpiece ahead of its time? That's what disgruntled fans of director Richard Lester, of Beatles film fame, have claimed every since the film's miserable box-office showing...
...after the shattering, unexpected death of her brother. Virginia's desire to break with a past burdened by precious personal loss was fortified by her willingness to defy Victorian convention. Bloomsburysociety was by now in high swing, Virginia was one of its hostesses, entertaining geniuses destined to fame. Maynard Keynes and Lytton Strachey, and geniuses contracted to obscurity. Saxon Syndey-Turner. Bell reveals the Virginia of the Bloomsbury period to have irresistible, gay, irreverent, charming, flirtatious and independent. Admidst the libertarian affairs of Bloomsbury Virginia was also earnestly training for her craft. She read omnivorously, took up journalism, practiced writing...
...Writing in Playboy, radical feminist Germaine Greer suggests that rape means not just taking by force but taking by fame, charisma, insincere tenderness, or hints of favors to come or largesse to be withdrawn. It is even rape when a lonely woman goes to bed with a man not because she wants sex but because she "would like to develop some sort of relationship with him." Writes Greer: "The man who has it in his power to hire and fire women from an interesting or lucrative position may extort sexual favors. A man who is famous or charismatic might humiliate...
...board of directors of baseball's Hall of Fame moved today to clear the way for Roberto Clemente's immediate election, bypassing the usual five-year waiting period...
Died. Charles Leo ("Gabby") Hartnett, 72, star Chicago Cubs catcher for 19 seasons (1922-40) and member of baseball's Hall of Fame; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Park Ridge, Ill. A portly, good-humored player once spurned by the pros because of his small hands, Hartnett played in more than 1,900 games for the Cubs, set a lifetime batting average of .297, and in his heyday was widely considered the best catcher in the game...