Word: fame
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...Ponnudorai's circle of friends and family members, the only person untroubled by his lack of fame is the man himself. Since his accident, he has been content simply to make a living. "It took me a while to figure it out," he says, "but as long as I can play, I'll be a happy man." And so it happens that this remarkable musician will perform at Harry's this weekend, while most of the drinkers have their backs to the stage. It doesn't matter if 10 people are listening or 10,000. His music ascends like...
...months later to deliver it, he was dead. His passing went largely unmarked outside the circle of curators who had bought his albums and kept them interred, mostly unseen, in their archives. Atget would likely have been indifferent to such obscurity, given his preference for work over fame. "This enormous artistic and documentary collection is now finished," he wrote of his life's work in 1920, though he kept on shooting for years. "I can now say that I possess all of the old Paris...
...esteemed career as a fair, levelheaded British politician may have been overshadowed by his fame. Onetime tailor Lord Weatherill, who kept a thimble in his pocket to stay humble, won fans by resisting pressure from fellow Tory Margaret Thatcher to be more partisan while he was Speaker of the House of Commons. Yet more knew him as the man who ushered in the age of TV coverage of the chamber in 1989 and the last Speaker to wear the traditional wig. (It allowed for selective hearing, he said...
...friends and go off on an adventure across the sea.”Olken entered a fictional piece titled “There Will Be Time,” which stars Nathan J. Dern ’07 of “Beauty and the Geek” fame, who is also Olken’s roommate. “It is about experiencing simultaneous contradictory emotions and the stress an accident puts on a relationship,” Olken says.The Crimson Film Festival will take place on next Thursday, May 3rd at 8 p.m. in Boylston Hall?...
...Now” is most engaging when it develops the friends’ personal stories. There’s the maybe-gay starving actor, the high-strung boring one with the loudmouth wife (played by the irritating Molly Shannon of “Saturday Night Live” semi-fame), the L.A. hotshot, the Manhattan lawyer divorcee, and the normal guy who keeps measuring his receding hairline in inches. They’ve all got their idiosyncrasies and personal issues, but according to the movie, they can miraculously transform and produce beautiful a cappella harmonies to escape their worries. Sadly...