Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sell—it’s always been this way. Our culture thrives on sensationalism, on grotesqueness and intrigue. Teen idols and school shootings captivate far more easily than stories of increased volunteerism among young people or displays of exemplary leadership. The implicit message is clear: Money, fame or quick glory may turn heads, but quieter excellence simply doesn’t entertain...
...Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none." MARC ANTHONY, singer who recently wed Jennifer Lopez, on his purchase of a $22,000 set of Honma irons from Japan...
Muffy would be pleased. Thanks to the return of crayon-color hues in the latest fashions, the casual look of America's prep-school set is chic again. Standard-bearers of the style like Lacoste, maker of the alligator-adorned polo shirt, and Sebago, of Docksides fame, have relaunched their hallmark items with a modern flavor. Retailers like Urban Outfitters, which rode the grunge wave in the past decade, are stocking up on such preppy classics as candy-color ribbon belts and wood-handled Bermuda bags. Isaac Mizrahi showed preppy-inspired outfits, pictured right, from his latest collection last month...
...instead, I’ll just say this: Nobody on my jury was there for money, “getting ahead” or fame. All the 12 of us wanted was to do the best job we could because we were entrusted with it, because other people’s lives were on the line. On a microcosmic level, I saw something like utopia: people stopping their busy lives to serve justice, and doing so with good faith and good results. It’s a phenomenon I never see at Harvard, or in national politics or waiting...
...Method acting so eagerly claimed him. They believed he was pulling all that conflict out of himself, out of his troubled and rebellious past (cruel and drunken father, wistful and drunken mother) and using it--just as their great guru, Lee Strasberg, preached. In the first years of his fame, that was O.K. with Brando. It saved him a lot of tedious explanations. And it was more than O.K. with the crowd at the Actors Studio, which he briefly joined. It was the headquarters of Stanislavskian acting in America, inheritor of the Group Theater tradition (where in the 1930s Strasberg...