Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second career of explaining it, in countless interviews right down to the present, which finds him, at 81, having divorced his eighth wife, living in cheerfully cantankerous solitude 40 miles outside Los Angeles. He was revulsed by all the crassness, goes the litany. He felt imprisoned by his fame, condemned to repeat old hits instead of being free to grow and explore. He wanted to go out at the top. He wanted to write (he has published an autobiography and two volumes of fiction). But none of these reasons has dislodged the conviction, still held by many fans, critics...
Deep Cover stars Larry Fishburne of Boyz N The Hood fame as John Stevens, a cop who is trying to escape his past as the son of a junkie. He accepts an undercover assignment as drug dealer to infiltrate a powerful narcotics ring with ties to the U.S. government...
...fame of these individuals merely due to their prior status as celebrities. People also become celebrities if they symbolize the blameless AIDS sufferer, as did Kimberly Bergalis when she contracted AIDS from her dentist last year. My intention is not to brush aside these patients' sufferings or to impugn their motives, but to point out the cultural trend of recognizing two separate and unequal classes of AIDS patients...
Richly expressive and almost never embarrassed, choreographer Mark Morris has been one of the most interesting and original artists in the modern-dance world for more than a decade now. In recent years he has gained wider fame through his association with Mikhail Baryshnikov, with whom he co-founded the White Oak Dance Project. Their sold-out shows across the country have introduced new audiences to the choreographer's work. Now, after three years of voluntary -- and controversial -- exile in Brussels, this wunderkind of American dance has returned...
...fact, Pat Buchanan's mindless "America first" crusade had paralyzed Bush for months. Foreign policy, the President's passion and claim to fame, was stowed throughout the early primaries as Bush told Republican voters that his new first priority was repairing the domestic economy. Aiding Russia and the other republics became possible only when Buchanan's challenge waned after Bush's victories in Michigan and Illinois on March 17. But even then Bush was mute until Richard Nixon chastised the President for a "pathetically inadequate" nonresponse to Moscow's pleas for help. And even then nothing happened until the White...