Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...protest in the streets and revolution in the hills 1966-1976 War in Vietnam, Nixon in China and Man on the Moon it affects to study an ordinary day or so in the wholly extraordinary lives of its heroes. They are the clear-eyed innocents, imprisoned by fame ? but never for a moment blinded to the really flagrant foolishness of the adult world around them...
...Tree of Fame is not the weirdest thing going on here. Not even close. The tree is on a 14-acre farm in middle of South Central Los Angeles - the area south of downtown that rappers mention when they want to sound tough. The seemingly endless gardens are farmed by 350 poor people, each of whom have a plot where they make dinners from the corn, bananas, guava, cactus, mulberries, avocado and sugar cane they grow. It is one of the most surreal things I've ever seen, and I was at Time Warner when AOL bought...
...adult table. There was never a kids' table. To me, the greatest privilege of the way I grew up was realizing at a very young age that these people are just as unhappy as everyone else. Once you realize that, it frees you up from believing that fame or riches are going to bring you happiness. I think it takes a lot of people a long time to figure that...
...Does fame hurt your reporting? If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way. The thing I love about reporting is being able to blend in with any group, whether that's neo-Nazis or pedophiles. Frankly, I'm the same person I've always been, and I'm pretty good at blending...
...some superglue.' O.K. Well, now what were we talking about?" Yes, that's the same Elizabeth who married James Morris in 1949 and had five children with him, four of whom survive. Elizabeth has remained superglued to her former husband's side through sex change, brain surgery, literary fame and near-constant travel. "We go to Trieste nearly every year," Morris says of that flavorful, heterogeneous Adriatic port. "It has haunted me more than anywhere else. It's the most allegoric city I know. I am Trieste. Trieste is me." Trieste was also the subject of the 2001 book, Trieste...