Word: fame
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...group of Episcopalians in Birmingham invited her to lead some seminars in Bible studies. Her growing fame as a spiritual teacher and writer led to 60 appearances on Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network. In 1981 she founded EWTN, which began broadcasting four hours a day from a primitive studio in a converted garage. Now the network has a staff of 134 and owns property and equipment worth $32.4 million. There is no budget as such. Mother Angelica believes God will provide, and so far he has: last year loyal fans contributed $13.2 million to keep EWTN...
...these photos may be your only glimpse of the music festival that for three days brought limited fame to that part of Maine which lies where your thumbnail meets the Canadian border...
Book-page editors were charmed by The Wedding and its elderly author, not simply because of the Onassis connection and the novel's considerable merits. The astonishing truth was that this was West's second time around as fame's darling. She was, in fact, the last surviving member -- ''the Kid," they called her then -- of a group of formidably gifted black writers of the late '20s and early '30s, the period of the Harlem Renaissance. This flare of talent included poets Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes and novelists Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston. While still in her teens...
...Manet. He didn't have the range, the formal toughness or the breadth of human curiosity for that. Yet sometimes he approached them, as in his finest portrait, his 1872-73 study of the Victorian sage Thomas Carlyle. When he sat for Whistler, Carlyle was 78 and heavy with fame, depression and guilt. All this is conveyed in the disturbed but massive black profile of the coat and in the tenderness of Whistler's treatment of the face...
...BECOME THE QUICKEST WAY TO FAME IN AMERICA'S GUN culture. And one morning in May 1992 it happened to Louis Katona III, a Bucyrus, Ohio, real estate salesman and part-time police officer. He got to tell all about it when the National Rifle Association flew him to its annual meeting in Phoenix last spring--how agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the "jackbooted fascists" of N.R.A. lore, had raided his home and seized his machine-gun collection. At the time, he estimated the guns' value at about $300,000 and kept them locked inside...