Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that youthful fame demands is this: that its recipients grow up too quickly or not at all. This thought slips into your mind as you enter Brandy's Manhattan hotel room...
Brandy, a best-selling pop-soul singer and the star of UPN's youthful sitcom Moesha, has just awakened. The diva/actress, who first found fame as a teenager, is now 20, more woman than girl. This is her thespian coming-of-age time, the moment when it happens or it doesn't. An ingenue either aims for Jodie Fosteresque acting glory or is condemned to a Peter Pan-ish purgatory, a high-voiced, short-pants-wearing Urkel-ish hell in which she is damned to re-enact the clumsy tics of adolescence forever...
Seton spent the remainder of the meeting recognizing council members and officers for their outstanding work. The "Hall of Fame" award went to Council Treasurer Sterling P.A. Darling '01, who Seton called the "the single most knowledgeable person of student affairs...
Seton spent the remainder of the meeting recognizing council members and officers for their outstanding work. The "Hall of Fame" award went to Council Treasurer Sterling P.A. Darling '01, who Seton called the "the single most knowledgeable person of student affairs...
...might have stuck to when writing other parts of the book. The nature of celebrity is a subject Rushdie tackles with aplomb, yielding a few entertaining bits of satire. His celebrities are drugged up, swaggering, stylized and often foolish. Through Vina and her famous friends, Rushdie shows us how fame is often unfulfilling, lonely and trifling. Andy Warhol's cultured set is brilliantly satirized, as is the delirious glam-rock movement that yielded Iggy Pop and David Bowie. Madonna Sangria is also skillfully caricatured and probably the reason why the real-life Madonna shredded her advance copy of the book...