Word: fame
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...woman, her life took a darker turn. She fell in love with a succession of men--among them the sculptor Alexander Calder and the writer Samuel Beckett--each of whom left her newly heartbroken. Although she was devoted to her father, she raged at the shadow that his growing fame cast over her ineffectual career, and she became increasingly difficult to live with. She threw chairs, lighted fires, cut the family phone lines, flirted with suicide...
...Piazza del Duomo, will probably raise few eyebrows among the well-heeled residents of Italy's fashion capital. Everyone else, though, will be pleasantly gobsmacked by this 117-room property. Set in a 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 used throughout the building, underscoring a design palette of soaring columns, heavy silk...
...Common Application asks applicants for their fields of study, giving them seven options. Leaving aside the two percent or so each year who brazenly thumb their noses at Byerly Hall and do not indicate a field of study, the application process, like the Hogwarts sorting hat of Harry Potter fame, divides up the class upon entry...
...jumbled as it is, this musical is not to be sniffed at. The portrait of the freewheeling, sexually adventurous, pre-AIDS club world is vivid, uncompromising and often funny. And as a study of the perils of fame, the show is miles beyond the other biographical musical playing down the block - The Boy From Oz, a candy-coated account of the life of pop star Peter Allen. With the exception of O?Dowd, who?s a little stiff as Bowery, the cast is superb, especially Morton, a sweet-voiced doppleganger for Boy George, and Esparza, an electric Broadway star...
Unfortunately for Harvard, the Quakers took advantage of the situation and scored the fame-winning goal less than five minutes afterwards...