Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Andy Warhol predicted that everyone would have fifteen minutes of fame. In this new world, he could be right. Hell, in a couple of years, we could all have our own cable channels. "Fifteen Minutes" is a fitting emblem for our generation...
With the risk of upsetting some Looie fans, we'd have to say that it was a mistake to admit St. John's basketball coach Lou Carnessecca into the basketball hall of fame last week. The induction typifies the overrated nature of the Big East (as much as we love St. John's) and its coaches...
...upset Georgetown in the finals. Since then, it's been all ACC and Big Ten. There can be no denying the profusion of young basketball talent thriving in the small and large towns of the Midwest and the South. And yet, Carnessecca still gets voted into the Hall of Fame and a severely mediocre Villanova squad plays on national television several times throughout the season...
Looies' had a generally successful career, but a lively, bouncy, likeable ethnicity does not warrant a plaque in the Hall of Fame. If it were, Carnessecca's plaque would hang next to that of the Prego lady...
...wonder that Dana Carvey can recognize himself in the mirror each morning. Ever since he joined "Saturday Night Live," Carvey has taken over various personas from the Church Lady to President Bush, to Garth of "Wayne's World" fame...