Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...graphic description of the photographs--good taste forbids it. Suffice it to say that Peninsula has out-done itself. The monthly provides us not only with the now standard photo of an aborted fetus, but also a photograph of Shannon Lowney's casket, she of Brookline Planned Parenthood fame. What the editors make of these photographs, how they read them, I shall leave for you to consider...
...everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." But within that short space of time, so much can happen. What arrives with an air of mystery soon becomes the talk of the town, only to descend into overkill in a matter of minutes. Here we have elucidated the trajectory of fame for a few of the people and things we have been hearing about lately. Yet even as we type, the moments tick away. Ah, the flash in the proverbial...
...inevitable products of mass consensus in popular tastes and superficial public whims, these poor souls venture out into the world either basking in the public attention which sustains them, or else fleeing from it in terror. In the end though, one realizes the absurdity in all this manufactured fame, the perverse incongruity of ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations...
...condition has even brought him a bit of fame...
Nicholas has been an honoree of the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame since 1992. She won two Los Angeles Emmy Awards for her role in "Voices of Our People," a 1981 special about Black poetry...