Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good thing. But this time Stone is a symptom of the disease he would chart. It is folly to lavish $40 million of somebody's money (that's $10 million a Door!) and 2 hr. 15 min. of your time on a proposition -- some guys can't handle fame -- that was evident two decades ago. Maybe it was fun to bathe in decadence back then. But this is no time to wallow in that mire...
...what does that Grammy, a little gold-plated Gramophone on a pedestal, represent? A souvenir of a TV extravaganza. A talisman of mainstream commercial success. A bit of show-biz immortality that, since this is show biz, after all, is more tenuous and suspect than other varieties of eternal fame (anyone remember 1980's five-Grammy grand slammer Christopher Cross?). Sinead O'Connor is right: the Grammys probably do "respect mostly material gain." But in the words of a very prominent Grammy wanna-grab, we're living in a material world...
...play's main character Rubek (Alvin Epstein), an Ibsen figure, is an aging sculptor disillusioned with his work and the idle life that wealth and fame have brought him. Rubek and his young wife Maya (Stephanie Roth) have become estranged. Maya cannot provide him with artistic or spiritual inspiration, and Rubek cannot satiate her hedonistic needs...
During the first few days of TV's saturation coverage, newspapers seemed to provide little more than a reiteration of stale news. But the print press has since been playing aggressive catch-up. Last week's most eye-catching scoop came from Bob Woodward, of Watergate fame, who reported in the Washington Post that despite the allied air successes, confidential Pentagon assessments revealed that "important parts of Saddam Hussein's war machine have not yet been significantly hurt...
When I peruse the conquered fame of heroes and the victories of mighty generals, I do not envy the generals...