Word: fame
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Coetzee, who has gained national fame for his writings on the legacy of apartheid South Africa, was born in Cape Town and currently resides in Australia...
...which the films she sees might raise. She is overwhelmingly ebullient, yet most of the time manages to restrain her verbal sweat glands and channel her energy into vigorous writing. But if you sweep away her layers of reputation -- her accolades, her past accomplishments, and her present heroic-scale fame -- you find that there are no firm intellectual roots to her analysis, and no rational bounds to her emotionalism. Pauline Kael has become just another opinionator, more fiery and more skillful than most, but without any broad vision to separate her from the herd...
Using a Bagua map, which assigns different aspects of life such as health and fame to the sections of a space, Taylor found the abundance of window-front seating signalled a positive future. Because water, the main determinant of the Career section, is associated with reflection, the presence of windows is auspicious. Overall, Taylor made it clear that the “current establishment is going...
...national hero - an elementary school dropout who started out by selling doughnuts - views his sudden fame with relative nonchalance. "People look at me the same way," he says. "There's a little difference, but it shouldn't matter." He insists he's still the same Manny who used to box in Manila for peanuts, even if his next fight is likely to earn him at least $1 million. Still, it's hard to avoid noticing the signs of Pacquiao's newfound wealth. Today, hanging out in his rented apartment in the capital, Pac-Man is wearing two fat gold watches...
...Warner Bros. and the other record-industry giants are flat-lining, and Prince is doing a happy dance that would make Snoopy look like a depressive. In the past two months, he has opened the Grammy Awards with Beyonce Knowles, been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, launched a sold-out arena tour, opened an iTunes-ish music-download store to go along with his successful, subscription-based NPG Music Club and released Musicology, his best album...