Word: fame
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tired of narcissistic boy-heroes whose only claim to fame is physical prowess or injured self-righteousness...
...parties arranged by Tennessee's Senator Howard Baker and Marlow Cook, a former Senator from Kentucky and now an influential Washington lawyer. The goal of the dinners is to show Senate Republicans-particularly conservative skeptics-that the Vice President is really just a misunderstood victim of his own fame. This week Rockefeller will be the grilled guest at another stag, all-business dinner given by Nebraska's Senator Roman Hruska, one of the G.O.P.'s right-hand anchors...
...famous inlaw. While Snowdon shuttled between interviews and autograph sessions, store officials hawked his book Assignments at $12.50 per copy. "They're just photographs that reflect or record moments in life," said Snowdon. "If there is a recognizable style, then that's my failing." How had fame from his professional success and marriage to Princess Margaret affected his work? "If your face becomes familiar, it makes it harder to work in an anonymous kind of way," he answered. "I've got a totally anonymous face that happens to have been photographed...
...ploy to elude a cop who has trailed him into a roadhouse where the Dancekings are playing. W.W. has no difficulty persuading the law that he is the group's manager. He goes on to convince the group that if he actually took over for them, fame and fortune-or at least a shot at the Grand Ole Opry-would be theirs...
...song says, she came a long way from St. Louis. Because she was cold in the ghetto there all during her childhood, Josephine Baker became a dancer to keep warm. As she grew into international fame as a stage and cabaret performer, the heat stayed on. New York had never seen anything quite like the red-hot way she sang and shimmied the Charleston and black bottom at the old Plantation Club. Paris, to which she moved in 1925 at age 19, had never seen anything like her at all. At the Folies-Bergere, she gave lessons...