Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...what happened—I bumped into these people,” Stills said, in reference to Crosby and Nash, with whom he formed “Crosby. Stills & Nash” in 1968. The group added Neil Young shortly thereafter, and the band found instant fame playing in front of 400,000 people at the Woodstock Music Festival in just their second live performance...
...played with legends like Jimi Hendrix, Ringo Starr, and Eric Clapton, and was enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of fame...
...environment where even chance encounters are perceived as the event that could catapult a student into fame or success, it’s all about first impressions...
...growing fame is not so easily dispensed with. But it has its upside, celebrity fans. At yet another literary-society gathering, this one in Beverly Hills, Calif., McCall Smith had a very-not-traditionally built gate crasher, Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. "I noticed Mr. Flea had the word LOVE tattooed across his right hand," he said later. "Many of my readers do not. It's nice to have a variation." Politely put, as ever...
...would reflect better on mainstream society to say that this change has occurred because popular culture has grown more forgiving of professional mistakes and personal miscalculations. In truth, however, the change has arisen primarily because Americans have gotten savvier, and perhaps more sadistic, in watching others pursue fame and success. The public has learned that failure can be highly entertaining and, occasionally, quite funny. Comebacks can be inspiring, sure, but they’re even more fun to watch—and therefore more profitable to facilitate—when they’re creatively bizarre and shamelessly attention-seeking...