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...singer and songwriter in '70s rock group Orleans (of Still the One fame), Hall is leader of a club that also includes Bill Sali (R., Idaho), who was in the swing band Blue Country, and Paul Hodes (D., N.H.), an award-winning children's musician...
...thrilled at being rewarded instead of hounded for expressing their feelings in their work. Fundamental issues like politics, ideology and spirituality remain important themes. Images of Mao Zedong, the Red Guards and other icons of the recent past are central to the works that have brought many of them fame...
...this without raising their voices, without pitching fits, without showing the slightest evidence that they are lacking in what the rest of us are pleased to call normalcy. Take Harry Shearer's Victor Allan Miller. He's played Shakespeare (albeit in repertory's more obscure regions), but his fame rests on his portrayal of a wiener in a series of hot dog commercials. A nomination would transform his life, but he shows his desperation only to his cruelly indifferent manager (the aforementioned Levy). The rest of the time Miller's a model of modesty and good nature. Or consider Guest...
...charts because every time I threw, it was like a 60-yard touchdown or something,” Sherlock says. “They never expect the half-back pass or the double-pass, especially in high school.”As a result of his high school fame, the Crimson recruited Sherlock as a running back, but competition for the positions he played as well as numerous position changes severely reduced his time on the field.“It’s probably been really unfair to the kid,” Murphy says. “He?...
WESTWOOD, Calif.—Most Los Angeles first-timers are given their requisite 15 minutes of fame, but the visiting Harvard men’s soccer team only got 1:55.That was all it took for UCLA midfielder Sal Zizzo to scorch Harvard’s left side and fire a shot into the far post past Crimson junior goalkeeper Adam Hahn, giving UCLA an early 1-0 lead. “It’s not ideal to give up a goal in the first two minutes,” Hahn said. “I think...