Word: fame
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...charter guaranteeing no formulas tested on animals and no animal-derived or genetically modified ingredients. So far, so much like other laudable products on sale at your local health store. But the difference with McCartney, who from the beginning of her fashion career a decade ago has used her fame as Beatle Paul's designing daughter as a soapbox for her principles, is that Care is also unashamedly glamorous...
There were two types of fame on display at the press conference Monday morning in a grand, sky-lit room at the back of the New York Public library. There was director James Cameron, towering like a a six-foot-plus druidic monolith in a dark jacket and black turtleneck. And there was a light tan limestone box about two feet long lying on a table in front of Cameron - which the Titanic director was presenting as the burial box of Jesus Christ. All things being equal, we know who would be the bigger draw. (It was John Lennon...
...thing is, not all people are cut out for their three minutes of online-video fame. A Vault.com post features a blue-shirted manager with a knee jiggle and a boring spiel. A job-seeking techie on YouTube admits charmingly that he has no experience editing videos--and then packs his with gimmicky cutaways. One software engineer scores his with gangsta rap. And did I just fast-forward through that video on HireVue because of the guy's bad teeth...
...Sutherland's perfectly controlled career and "beautiful, bell-like sound" have been inspirations for her own stupendous rise, comparisons can also be unhelpful. She would be the first to point out that she has yet to make a recording or grace the European opera stages that forged Sutherland's fame. But in the budding boldness of her bel canto one can already sense a magical symmetry forming-of another down-to-earth spirit allied to a heavenly voice...
...article comes out proclaiming that the book is an endangered species, being pushed out of prominence by the newer media of magazines, television or the Internet. But literature always seems to survive the advent of newer media, partially because it adapts to what readers want. In our fame-obsessed society, that often means books about celebrities. Though a tabloid can be leafed through inconspicuously at CVS while your boyfriend’s back is turned, a book requires the courage to face the cashier and acknowledge, “Yes, I care enough about Paris Hilton’s life...