Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took their eyes off him. Now, wherever Mandela goes he is surrounded by armed guards who never take their eyes off him. In a sense, he has exchanged one form of prison for another, and the revolutionary who was a threat to the state has become the prisoner of fame and power. In the midst of his election he lamented the fact that he did not have time to play with his beloved grandchildren. It is the burden of the leadership he was born to and has achieved...
...Harvard audiences, his seamless juxtapositions of the random places on campus where he was allowed to shoot may feel disorienting, but in a fun way. The cinematography of Sven Nykvist (of Ingmar Bergman fame) is competent, but it has none of the passion of his most recent work, the lyrical "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" and the truly horrible (but well-filmed) "Sleepless in Seattle...
...former member of the Undergraduate Council who resigned in February to take a semester off, Davis has risen to fame by organizing the petition effort that forced last week's referendum on the council's recent $10 term bill fee hike...
...Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute. While in the Merchant Marines during World War II, he published several short stories. One day, just after the war, he found himself typing, "I am an invisible man." He spent seven years developing that sentence into the work that brought him instant fame...
...Hall of Fame pitcher's alleged anti-Semitic remarks cause furor...