Word: fame
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...early rock ?n roll-star standards. He didn?t kill himself with drugs or junk food or (of course) reckless driving. But though he was in his mid-20s when he broke out of the race-music ghetto into the rock mainstream, Charles always seemed older. He came to fame grown-up. The hillbilly contingent of proto-rock - Elvis and Carl Perkins and Gene Vincent and Buddy Holly, all long gone - seemed like slick teenagers busting with musical testosterone. They sang with green urgency about what they wanted to do. Charles sang about what he?d been through. His music...
...propel an artist (or at least allow him to cruise) toward a career as a non-hit-producing musical treasure. For the next four decades, he toured, guested on TV shows, earned honors galore, including a Presidential Medal and a charter membership in the Rock ?n Roll Hall of Fame. It was coasting, sure, an oldies act, but Charles always gave the crowd an electrifying evening...
First, the fame: Though many Harvard professors stamp their names on the covers of textbooks or bestsellers, Mitchell’s undergraduates could look forward to seeing their professor’s distinctive byline placed prominently in The New York Times several times a week...
Chase was only 27 when she started a venture that would earn her fame in the culinary world. At that age, she was invited to join a new cookbook project...
Borlaug was a Big 10 wrestler at the University of Minnesota, and was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame...