Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Looney Tunes Hall of Fame Film Festival--Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Sq., Davis stop on the red line T, Somerville. Feb. 14-March 5. Sunday-Saturday, 2, 4:15, 7:30, and 9:45 p.m. $6.50, adults; $4.50 children under 12; $4.50 matinees. Advance tickets available at Ticketmaster. For group rates of 20 or more, phone 625-4088. For more information, call...
...time for you hang up your shoes for good. See you in the Hall of Fame...
...refused to do so. For he believed it was critical that professors in the classroom should be absolutely free to "teach the truth as they see it." With all of these boasts and claims to fame in mind, this is why I was saddened by the criticisms of Jeffries' invitation to speak at Harvard...
Snoozing at the mouth of a narrow valley, its air perfumed by nearby steel plants, its riverbank paved for a parking lot, its squat office buildings ringed by mounds of sooty snow, Albertville hardly seems destined for global fame. But raise your eyes above the small-town skyline: the Olympian glory of the French Alps explodes in a pastel sunset, sparkling through pine-serrated glaciers. After Sarajevo's Bosnian backwater and Calgary's urban stampede, the 16th Olympic Winter Games will be a soaring high-wire act: 57 events staged in 10 venues across seven valleys...
...Clinton mess last week suggested something about a certain brainless overstimulation of American media life. In his novel Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow wrote about the arrival of fame: "I experienced the high voltage of publicity. It was like picking up a dangerous wire fatal to ordinary folk. It was like the rattlesnakes handled by hillbillies in a state of religious exaltation." Bill Clinton, wholesome, ruddy Arkansas boy, found himself handling poisonous snakes. Ugly stories have a slithering life of their...