Word: fame
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...named Lucrezia Buti. Their illegitimate son, coached by a Florentine painter, became one of the most famous artists of his age, known for the imagination and versatility of his work and patronized by the rich and powerful. The twist in the tale came four centuries later: Filippino's fame had long since faded when England's Pre-Raphaelites "discovered" the genius of his forgotten teacher, lavished praise on his lyrical style and rhythmic lines, and elevated him to the status of a Renaissance icon - Botticelli. Now master and student share the spotlight at Florence's Palazzo Strozzi, allowing art lovers...
Carl Pforzheimer Professor of Government Sidney Verba may be a giant in his field, but he keeps that private. “I never achieved real fame,” he says, “until [the now defunct] M Magazine did a full-page spread on tweedy professors...
...fame, Euripides is hard to pull off nowadays. Productions of Greek tragedies are almost always modernized to make them adhere to present-day aesthetics since audiences are not used to stylized choruses and lengthy speeches. The Athena Theater Company’s production of The Trojan Women, directed by Roxanna K. Myhrum ’05, was modernized, but perhaps not sufficiently so. Aside from occasional stirring moments, the play has the feel of a string of declamatory speeches...
...cartoonists, including Charles Burns, Chester Brown, Dan Clowes, Joe Sacco, Jason Lutes, Julie Doucet and tens of others. The best pieces match the cartoonist with the material. Carol Moiseiwitsch's splattery black and white imagery lends a horrifying intensity to "Fatal Fellatio." Peter Bagge, of "Hate" fame, punches up several tales, including one about a flipper fetishist, with his loopy graphics...
Cahill grew up in a part of Boston where politics "comes with your mother's milk," says Father Robert Drinan, the former Congressman of antiwar fame. He hired Cahill to answer phones in his office in 1976, when she graduated from Emmanuel College, a Catholic institution that was still all women at the time. The daughter of an Irish immigrant autoworker at General Motors' Framingham factory and a first-generation Irish-American homemaker, Cahill attributes her bossiness to being the eldest of six children (three boys, three girls) and says she honed her political reflexes at a dinner table...