Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...catapulted to fame at Harvard his sophomore year after being arrested at Logan Airport trying to sneak onto a plane home for Thanksgiving...
...show was a giant success, outdone only by the following year’s “B.J. Show” in Sanders Theatre which featured Bob Saget of “Full House” fame reprising his television roles in a few skits and ending the show with his own standup routine...
What the Quincy House dining hall lacks in actual fresh and delicious vegetables it makes up for in concern for the freshness of its produce. At least it did the week of May 20th when bestselling cookbook author and vegetarian cuisine pioneer Mollie Katzen, of Moosewood Cookbook fame, surveyed the dining hall crowd, listening intently as Quincy residents described occasionally still-frozen broccoli florets and the frustrating abundance of white grains...
Memoirs may have catapulted Golden into overnight fame, but his road to success was a long one. It took him 10 years and three drafts to produce Memoirs, he says, which has now been printed in 21 languages, with four million copies in English...
...reaction to the tight-knit group’s 15 minutes of fame in FM were mixed. Many of those present at the brunch thought that it gave an incorrect impression of the floor. Others found it funny. Gahan says, “When it came out and became public news it kinda gave our floor an added sense of pride—we had that much notoriety. No pun intended, but it brought everyone together...