Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PRINCETON, N.J.--The Harvard men's basketball team, basking in the spotlight of its whirlwind Ivy League tour, found out Saturday that life on the road isn't all glory and fame...
SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL (CBS, Feb. 3, 9 p.m. EST). Glenn Close plays a mail- order mother, circa 1910, who moves West to help a widowed farmer ! (Christopher Walken) take care of his two children. Another huggably homespun Hallmark Hall of Fame drama, enhanced by two sincere performances...
...collaborator on Pacific Overtures) has no obvious topical resonances -- and probably could not, given that the authors view assassination as arising from thwarted ambition rather than any ideology or cause. As satire, Assassins is pointless: it attacks people who have no defenders. As pop sociology, it makes points about fame, envy and media culture that were made far more richly in John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves. One is left wondering -- not least because of an imagined conversation between a would-be assassin and composer Leonard Bernstein -- whether Sondheim's personal interest lies in the borderline between obsessive...
Nowhere was Hammer's rage for fame more obtrusive than in his role as a collector of old masters and Impressionists, which he flew around the world as promotion for Oxy and himself. Hammer's proudest feat was his 1980 purchase, for $5.12 million (a big price then), of a manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci called the Codex Leicester, which he renamed the Codex Hammer. It consists of 36 pages of notes on water movement. There is not a single drawing of aesthetic interest among the meager diagrams in the margins...
...boost. Hearst Corp. decided to shake up House Beautiful, Redbook and Connoisseur by appointing new editors. The most notable shift will be at Connoisseur, where editor in chief Thomas Hoving, former head of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be replaced by Gael Love, who edited Fame...