Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greatest "finger-style" guitar players in the world, a prolific songwriter, an enthusiastic performer with a wonderful sense of humor and an international ambassador of the Travis-Atkins style of playing. He had been in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Your article naming Dadi "the French 'flat-picking guitarist' " is tantamount to calling Babe Ruth one of the all-time great Brooklyn Dodgers. Finger-style players create a sound so different from that produced by flat pickers that to mistake the two is almost blasphemous. The world of music has suffered...
...expenses, most of the team members had to move in with parents or depend on spouses for support, and the team had to play most of its games outside the U.S. to draw any crowds. Though they captured the world title in 1991, the U.S. players still won little fame and no full-time jobs. The team virtually disbanded for two years before reassembling for the 1995 world championships. "We are here because we love to play the game," says team captain Carla Overbeck. "For years we played for nothing. But we played because of the friendships...
...significant other is harassing you non-stop about Southern California: the beaches, the amusement parks, the stars! With visions of "Baywatch" rescues, squeaky-voiced rodents and starring roles dancing in your head, you embark for Los Angeles and plunge head-first into...its congested freeway system! The price for fame and fortune never did come cheap, and L.A. is no exception. Before you know it, you're shelling out beaucoup bucks for an exercise in the imaginary, doggedly following fictional rodents-turned-superstars around the park while assiduously crushing real-live ones under your feet, making a tour...
...blue bunting trailing behind them like tin cans on the car of a newly-married couple. Perhaps back where we started, if a little poorer. Perhaps leaps and bounds more prominent in America and the world than before. Or perhaps a little wiser but not well. It seems the fame could go to our heads, leaving a taste of glamour in our mouths that will sour the morning after Bob Dole's acceptance speech. It seems we're taking ourselves just a little too seriously. It's only a convention, after...
Then Dole went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, leaving himself open to unlimited Lawrence Welk jokes and leaving me with little excuse for failing to deal with the stuffed-gopher museum in Torrington, Alberta...