Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make the case for the great names on the list, TIME sought out a hall-of-fame collection of writers and thinkers. The logic was simple: Who better to profile Winston Churchill than British writer John Keegan, perhaps the greatest living military historian. William F. Buckley Jr. was so taken with his subject--Pope John Paul II--that he awakened senior editor Joshua Cooper Ramo early on a Sunday morning to chat about how best to end his piece. The pairings--which also include Elie Wiesel on Hitler, Doris Kearns Goodwin on Eleanor Roosevelt and Salman Rushdie on Gandhi...
...hits the big time, and then meanly refuses to acknowledge the resulting child Billy as his own, or to peel off any loot for child support. The story is told by Billy, who, as a teenager and then as an adult, skulks about the edges of Luke's fame, hoping forlornly for a smile from...
Exhausted by fleeting fame, too much alcohol and yearning for the girls she left behind, Delia heads east to rescandalize Cayro. With her is Cissy, her daughter by Randall, and the precocious young spelunker of the book's title...
...seems to me that it is Paula Jones who is harassing the President. She wasn't physically damaged, and in my opinion there is scant proof that she has suffered psychologically or economically. She is after fame and fortune, and you in the media have certainly helped her. This sexual-harassment thing is getting out of hand. When a construction crew whistles at a pretty girl, is that harassment? Men have been coming on to women ever since Adam and Eve. JAY LIVINGSTON Los Angeles...
...some sense our lives are not ours anymore. We, each to different degrees, have signed them away to higher goals of prestige and fame, to which Harvard is our current stepping stone...