Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doing O.K.," he sniped. Glenn, who has overcome plenty more than mere ankle biting, shrugged it off. "There are worse things," he said. Now on the threshold of his first Super Bowl, Glenn has even brought around Parcells, who recently compared Glenn's game to that of Hall of Fame wide receiver Paul Warfield. Lots of professional ballplayers overcome adversity, but precious few have it for lunch the way Terry Glenn...
...picture, the Nude is neither poor nor great, but its fame today is the fossil of the huge notoriety it acquired as a puzzle-picture in 1913. It is lodged in history because it embodied the belief that the new, revolutionary work of art has to be scorned and stoned like a prophet by the uncomprehending crowd. In the cult of the problematic, as distinct from the enjoyable, Duchamp rapidly became a saint, and the Nude is one of his prime relics. So are his "readymades"--a snow shovel or a ceramic urinal designated as works of art, sardonic jokes...
...SUTTON Bad call. Nine votes keep the 324-game winner from election to baseball's Hall of Fame...
Gates is ambivalent about his celebrity. Although he believes that fame tends to be "very corrupting," he is comfortable as a public figure and as the personification of the company he built. Like Buffett, he remains unaffected, wandering Manhattan and Seattle without an entourage or driver. Nestled into a banquette one Sunday night at 44, a fashionable Manhattan restaurant, he is talking volubly when another diner approaches. Gates pulls inward, used to people who want his autograph or to share some notion about computers. But the diner doesn't recognize him and instead asks him to keep his voice down...
...BOOKS . . . GONE FISHIN: The previously unpublished first novel from President Clinton's favorite mystery writer, Walter Mosley, is a first rate thriller. Mosley rocketed to fame after the 1990 success of his second novel, 'Devil in a Blue Dress.' "The publication of 'Fishin'' is noteworthy because it is, in some respects, the best of Mosley's novels," notes White. "Set in East Texas in 1939, it is a morally murky coming-of-age story that explains why it ain?t easy being hero Easy Rawlins. The tale concerns a pivotal episode that Mosley has alluded to in the previously published...