Word: fame
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...land, a sculpture in a haystack, and where he realized that the idyllic landscape of rural England is one fashioned by sweat and privilege and kept green by death and dung. So, even if over the last 25 years Goldsworthy, now 50, has traveled far from home (and his fame has spread even further), there is no more fitting home than the Yorkshire Sculpture Park for the biggest-ever exhibition of his work, old and new, which runs until...
...acclaimed actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee has received a Screen Actors Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award, garnered a place in the NAACP Image Award Hall of Fame, and won a Grammy. And now Dee can add another accolade to her mantle after she received the 2007 Harvard Foundation Humanitarian Award last night in Appleton Chapel. Calling Dee a “brilliant American,” S. Allen Counter—the director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations—praised this year’s recipient. “For over...
Tourists have long admired Saint-Gilles for its ancient center: narrow streets, tightly packed stone buildings and 12th century monastery ruins. Its more recent political history, however, has given this Languedoc town a kind of ill fame across France. In 1989, Saint-Gilles became the first town to elect a mayor from the extreme-right National Front party. The National Front leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, a perennial loser in presidential elections, has consistently placed first in Saint-Gilles. In short, the town has voted for the kind of xenophobic zealotry that for many years was disavowed by polite French...
...Green ’06 blogs and reports for U.S. News & World Report.Reflecting a national trend, Harvard students are flooding the blogosphere, individually and in groups, covering their own lives, Harvard life (like Cambridge Common and the again-defunct Team Zebra), and the world. These journalists have used the fame of their blogs and their technological savvy to win everything from book deals, to journalism jobs, to the hatred of would-be brides everywhere. BLOGS FOR BLOGS’ SAKEA political junkie, activist, and blogger for Cambridge Common while on Harvard’s campus, Andrew H. Golis...
...Upwelling, has drawn comparisons to Pink Floyd, the Police and Leonard Cohen. Commendable influences to be sure, but one wonders if the College Events Board mightn’t have chosen a group with a broader fan base: Aqua, of ”Barbie Girl” fame, leaps to mind. Apparently, the eponymous doll serves as a metaphor for soulless corporate conformity, a more resonant message with Harvard’s highbrow listeners. The choice of Third Eye Blind was made in the spirit of universality, eschewing the flash-in-the-pan noise of Radiohead?...