Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...become the hottest actor in Hollywood, the guy whom everyone wants in their films even though a few months ago he was still bypassed for even minor roles. Damon deserves his fame--every single second...
DIED. BUCK LEONARD, 90, Hall of Fame first baseman hailed as the Lou Gehrig of the Negro Leagues; in Rocky Mount, N.C. With flawless glove work and a career batting average well above .300, Leonard anchored the Washington Homestead Grays from 1934 to 1950. "We had our own league, like another world," he recalled philosophically, "and we played like no other league existed...
...being chosen as part of the 40 minute loops played on such adult album alternative (AAA) stations as KISS and WBOS certainly hasn't affected the core audience for the Bosstones--a devoted group that the band cannot deny as their claim to fame and as an inseparable part of their live shows...
Because of money, I guess, for starters. Also, because it's the coolest space monster ever. Because of visual stylist Jean-Pierre Jeunet of Delicatessen fame. Because of whole ship mama Sigourney Weaver. Because of genetics and the human attachment to willful mediocrity. Because we've never seen an alien underwater (where you also can't scream). Because bounty hunters watch the TV shopping network. Because of Dominique Pinon's forehead. Because aliens bleed acid, and androids bleed semen. Because alien-human hybrids have pixie noses. And, always, because of the deeper issues...
George Washington Cable and Kate Chopin, literary figures destined to win fame for tales they would set in Louisiana, both lived in this New Orleans. Benfey frequently summarizes their work or utilizes their personal experiences to highlight some facet of life in the city, as suggested by his book's subtitle, "Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable." A host of other characters parade through the book as well; in aristocratic Creole New Orleans three or even two degrees of separation applied. Benfey delves into this byzantine web of relationships with zest, retrieving kernels...