Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...those, all but Virginia and Maine have at least one Democratic Senator whom the group will try to characterize as out of step with his or her constituency. Progress for America has lined up conservative celebrities, including former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson of Law and Order fame, to publicly endorse the nominee...
...being the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court but of running cattle as her father and grandfather had before her, has refused to be indulged. She is unassuming, doesn't take herself too seriously (in 2002 O'Connor was inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame) and never lost the sensibility she nurtured under those limitless Arizona skies. She often drew from author Wallace Stegner to describe her feelings for the West: "There is something about exposure to that big country that not only tells an individual how small he is, but steadily tells...
...reject her post-college job as an ESPN producer in New York City (laaaame!) and embrace NASCAR stardom. She’ll be nothing like Matt Dillon’s preening cad. No, she’ll be the kind of celebrity who uses her fame to do noble things, like wear high heels and promote sponsors with the gratuitous product-placement that saturates “Herbie...
...deadlines and airline food suppress higher thoughts. Writing about victories and defeats, comers and has-beens teaches him an austere lesson. "There are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough." That goes for his fleeting fame as the author of a volume of good short stories and the brief life-span of his son Ralph, who died of Reye's syndrome at age nine...
...story on Louisville as the No. 1 basketball team [SPORT, April 14] deserves consideration for the Hall of Fame of sportswriting. Your report caught the essence of the team, as well as the emotions surrounding basketball in Kentucky. Richard L. Coe Benton...