Word: fame
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Over the past two and a half years, Camann has spent hours a day whittling his Rubix solving time down to 12 seconds. Fame aside, Andy praises the cube for improving his academic abilities considerably. “Solving the cube improves your spatial solving ability,” he says. “It improved both my short-term and long-term memory...
...Hughes at a party at Cambridge University in 1956. He was 25 and craggily handsome. She was 23, bright, pretty and vivacious--the word is hard to avoid with Plath. Both were aspiring poets. But Plath's gleaming American smile hid dark, ravenous appetites--for food, for fame, for love, for sex. It also hid gulfs of despair; three years earlier, she had attempted suicide...
...surpassing Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Sean Penn and the rest. With Crowe you see a conflicted cop, a sensitive gay plumber, a fragile genius; with others, you see an actor playing a role. I respect Crowe's tenacity in staying true to himself. Because he won't play the fame game, he has been assigned a persona: arrogant bad boy. Your story unfairly perpetuated that image, leaving out instances of Crowe's generosity, loyalty and zest for life. Crowe is rugged, rebellious and tender. His complexity makes his roles mesmerizing and accessible to all. RHONDA PETERSON New York City...
Like many of the characters he writes about, Meehan had a modest upbringing that was the prelude to a life of fame and fortune. Raised in Suffern, N.Y., then a small town dotted with apple orchards, he was the oldest of four brothers and sisters. When he was 15, his father died, and his mother returned to nursing to support her family. He says with astonishment in almost a whisper that he has a jacket that cost as much as the house he grew...
...palatial, late 19th century building, Milan's latest hotel was designed by Ed Tuttle of Amanresorts fame. Visitors will pass through a lobby covered by a 9-m-high glass dome-enabling natural daylight to flood inside-before encountering an environment with enough untrammeled opulence to embarrass a Saudi prince. Travertine stone has been lavishly used throughout the building, underscoring a design palette of soaring columns, heavy silk, walnut-backed banquettes and granite urns...