Word: fame
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Within this framework, the movie tends to toggle between two settings: hilariously broad comedy and hypnotically surreal action sequences. The former is what garnered the film’s fame in the East, and such acclaim is deserved. The characters are easily recognizable archetypes—from the tough-as-nails Landlady (Qiu Yuen) and her drunken, bumbling husband (Wah Yuen) to the sadistic, moustache-twirling mastermind (Kwok Kuen Chan)—and every actor milks them for all they’re worth...
...appears to some visitors to resemble the superstructure of a large ship. Situated more than 800 miles from the sea and more than 900 miles from the power center of Peking, Chongqing could easily have come to resemble a rusted hulk aground in an urban backwater, despite its brief fame as Chungking, China's capital city during the war with Japan. Forty years later, however, few other cities in China are undergoing such momentous change and rapid growth...
...years it was difficult to decide whether the man they called the Georgia Peach belonged on the base paths or with the sociopaths. Yet there is no one who more clearly deserved a place in the Hall of Fame, and he was the first player voted in at the 1936 start. The battle of self-destruction and will began back in rural Georgia, when the teenage hunter accidentally shot himself with a .22 rifle. The bullet lodged in the vicinity of his clavicle and remained there for the rest of his life. Tyrus Raymond Cobb's father, W.H., a school...
Styles and settings barely begin the contrasts between Roger Staubach and Joe Namath, new Hall of Fame quarterbacks from the Naval Academy and Alabama, Dallas and New York City. During the late '60s and early '70s, they were on the opposite ends of every spectrum. In a Fu Manchu mustache, Namath played Elvis Presley to Staubach's Pat Boone. But they came to be stuffed and mounted together and cried along with Simpson during the inductions at Canton, Ohio. As Namath searched the sky for a hangdog man in a houndstooth hat, the late Alabama coach Bear Bryant, he also...
...medium, News Commentator Paul Harvey is a surviving link to an earlier era of network radio. On the air for more than 40 years, he is the most widely heard personality on radio, carried on some 1,100 stations. Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the pixieish sex therapist, was launched to fame by a sex-advice show on New York radio and now also does a national call-in show for NBC, and a TV talk show on the Lifetime Cable Network. "Radio was crucial in giving me the opportunity to talk about sexual matters in an explicit way," she says...