Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...which area you want to focus on, whether it’s ancient African or modern American art. You’ll also become familiar with the likes of Benjamin Buchloh, a modern art professor who came to Harvard last year and is a world-renowned art historian. His fame comes from incredible intelligence as well as uncanny incoherence and a remarkable ability to invent words. You’ll also meet professor Neil Levine, who last year taught the core course, Lit and Arts B-34, “Frank Lloyd Wright and the Modern City and Suburb...
...those loose terms—like “life coach” and “low-fat”— which could mean pretty much anything. Books like “Blink” and “Freakonomics” have brought fame to this broad, vague area of studies, but even its aficionados are hard-pressed to define it. In reality, Sociology, the “study of groups,” combines psychology, economics, history, statistics and government. Undergrads taking Sociology range from wannabe Social Studies concentrators to indecisive history buffs...
...martyr or a prophet. Hip hop fans worshipped him, but he should not be remembered as a hero, either. Pac should be remembered because he articulated his confusion and rage so well. His music reflects the complexity of a life spent trying to reconcile a career that brought great fame and riches with a youth of poverty and crime...
...antidote to spring's barely-there nude palette also turns up on cosmetics counters in Chanel's Safari eyeshadow and on must-have accessories like Versace's '80s-inspired spike-heeled patent pumps and Kara Ross's smoky topaz cuff. According to Thom Filicia, interior designer of Queer Eye fame, mushroom's popularity both on the runway and in the home can be attributed to our collective obsession with all things organic: "Consumers' fashion choices are being influenced by the popular natural-and-organic trend...
...FOOLISHLY ASSUMED that I couldn't exploit my fame, namely because I didn't have any. Then I found out that Clive Owen got $4.6 million to be the face of Lancme's men's skin-care line. The only thing I know about Clive Owen is that he didn't get picked to be James Bond. I didn't get picked to be James Bond either. That had to be worth something. Even more surprising, Diane Keaton, who is 60, scored a major deal to be a spokeswoman for L'Oral Paris, even though...