Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't just help start the French Revolution with his writings; he ushered in a publishing genre--the confessional memoir. More than 200 years later the literary form is thriving. Not just the celebrity memoir in which show-biz and sports icons "tell all" about the pain behind the fame. More recently has come a flood of what might be called just-plain-folks memoirs--intensely personal yet highly literary accounts by noncelebrities about growing up in badly disturbed families, hiding terrible childhood secrets, overcoming severe psychological traumas--and exorcising it all by writing about...
Ever wonder why celebrities are more famous than other people? It's because they ooze creativity. For example, not only have MILES DAVIS, TONY BENNETT, RICHARD GERE and DAVID BYRNE elbowed themselves room at fame's bar for their performing abilities; they're also gifted visual artists. Indeed, they must be gifted, because their handiwork isn't cheap. Gere's work, currently on display in a Manhattan art gallery, sells for $12,500 a portfolio (all proceeds to charity), and some of the late Davis' pieces are expected to fetch up to $100,000 when they go on sale...
Much of his fame derives from a ground-breaking investigation into why species differ over time...
Mayr said the library holds special meaning for him. As a student in his native Germany in the 1920s, he said he knew of the museum's fame before he ever heard the word Harvard...
...York insomniacs that the "Nightbird" became one of the first women in the country to work as a rock 'n' roll deejay. She was also the first female recipient of Billboard's "FM Personality of the Year" and an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...