Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first weeks after his nomination by Nixon to the court, Carswell, pleased by his new fame, welcomed the outside world into his well-ordered life. He opened his house to newsmen and treated them with his customary Southern affability. But then, as the opposition to his appointment grew, he reasserted a claim to privacy. Members of his family and intimates helped provide protection by setting up a 15-hour-a-day command-post type of operation to shield him from visitors and telephone callers, and telling all but his closest friends that the judge was unavailable. "He became something...
...knows whether Livingston can satisfy black and white students with sharply different backgrounds and expectations. The experiment may collapse-or furnish a prototype for colleges across the country. As of now, Livingston's main claim to fame is that it has not temporized in what it set out to do. That alone makes it worth watching...
...Harrington (Penny Fuller), carefully masks her ambitions in order to insinuate herself into the friendship and concern of an established theater star, Margo Channing (Bacall). Middle age is the devil's prompter in Marge's mind, popping biting retorts in her mouth about the jeopardy of fame, and chilling qualms in her heart about her love affair with a younger director (Len Cariou). With serpentine guile and horizontal campaigning, Eve slithers her way upward toward Margo's coveted stardom. However, Margo salvages what counts most: her lover, plus the hard-won grace to acknowledge that even unscrupulous...
...does fame, fortune, and a Hollywood career grab you ? Cold you dig a leading role in 3 Lives For Mississippi -a film about the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers-which is soon to be cast in the Quincy House guest suite by Downhill Racer maker Michael Ritchie? Or perhaps you just enjoy guerrilla theatre, mind-expansion through participation art, poetry reading, films, tales of liberation, dram symposiums, cowardly lions, music, or sports...
...Marines are leaving Viet Nam. Earlier this month, the Corps' Third Amphibious force turned over command of I Corps, the northernmost sector of South Viet Nam, to the Army. Last week the 26th Marines, which earned fame and a Presidential Unit Citation at Iwo Jima, was withdrawn and returned to Camp Pendleton, Calif. There the regiment will be deactivated...