Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jarring example of the changing face of global diplomacy, GERI HALLIWELL, formerly Ginger Spice, last week embarked on her career as a United Nations goodwill ambassador with a can-do spirit and a string of mild expletives. "I'm damn well going to use my fame positively!" the newly decolletage-free pop star exclaimed at a U.N. press conference. So while her former bandmates tour the world, Halliwell, 26, will preach to it. She'll stump for the U.N. Population Fund, promoting family-planning issues in developing countries that may not know enough about birth control but are surely familiar...
...fairly typical contemporary phenomenon, a loutish, sullen, spoiled athlete wearing diamond ear studs and, Roger observes, "a gold chain so chunky you could have used it to pull an Isuzu pickup out of a red clay ditch." Fareek is also a local Atlanta boy who climbed to fame from a poor black neighborhood. And he has now been accused, though not yet formally charged, of date rape by the daughter of one of Atlanta's most powerful white businessmen, Inman Armholster, who happens to be Charlie Croker's closest friend...
...least betting on baseball--has been very good to New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani [1]. This year he won a cowboy hat and 10 lbs. of barbecue from the mayor of Arlington, Texas; 10 lbs. of sausage and tickets to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, among other items, from the mayor of Cleveland, Ohio; and fish tacos, software and a surfboard from the mayor of San Diego. Here's a compendium of wagers that leaders have made over the years...
Only a handful of us at Harvard are internationally competitive athletes. Yet our school's greatest claim to fame is that we are all, in some way or another, very, very good at being young and exceptional. Having distinguished ourselves somehow by age 18, we have all become accustomed to hearing our elders say things like "Can you believe she did that at her age?" Unfortunately, it's the "at her age" qualifier that's particularly hard to drop. With all the child prodigies in the world, it's surprising we don't hear from more of them later...
...still be a touchstone of early '90s nostalgia, the era's iconic teenage girl in her role as pouty, headstrong Brenda Walsh. The naturalness of Doherty's bratty but earnest characterization helped make the show a hit by the end of its first season (1990-91). There was sudden fame and magazine covers, but it is a time that Doherty remembers less than fondly. Now 27, she wants the world to know that she is not the same person she was when she was regularly written up in the tabloids for fighting in nightclubs, threatening to shoot a fiance, trashing...