Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made no splash before Atlantic Monthly made some leftists frantic. And like as not, his fame will fleet, Leaving Herrnstein a secure professorial seat. Martin Fridson...
...whispers WWD, are the "Cat Pack." When its members walk into a room, "there's more than a ripple. There's a wave. They know everything about what's going on. And when they meet, there's that secret kiss on each cheek." Money and fame are not enough to make the Cat Pack-Johnny Carson, Ted Kennedy and John Lindsay are out of it, so is Nelson Rockefeller, though his brothers David and Laurence are in. Some husbands are in while their wives are not (Cat Lord Snowdon and Non-Feline Princess Margaret), and vice...
When her husband became irritated by her questions, she started to read up on the game. Eventually she even made a research trip to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. This fall Triton agreed to sponsor the course-if she could round up a dozen students...
Still, the Japanese and Texans have learned to accept each other with wry humor. Most of the American workers, for example, joke about the fact that their company initially gained fame by making the World War II Zero fighter. But most townspeople respect the Japanese for being "hardworking, intelligent and polite," as a local banker puts it. The fact that Mitsubishi's wages pump $1.2 million annually into the local economy, and that the company expects to increase production in San Angelo 50% by 1972, undoubtedly helps. Some final signs of acceptance: the San Angelo Country Club this month...
...only film industry which seems to have overcome its skittishness over politics is the Italian. Bellochio, Petri, Pontecorvo, Bertolucci have all made films which transform tough social criticism, by passion and human perception, into art. Even Italian hacks, like Montaldo of Sacco and Vanzetti fame, are hacks on a higher plane. If American film is to mature, its maturity will come from those able to confront Kramer's value system and erase its sigma from socially-conscious flimmaking. As Robert Steel said (in New American Review...