Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...news of that fame has long since fled the minds of Harvard students...
...fame, his appearance suggests that he never fully evolved past his student years: with vintage clothing and designer glasses, caustic wit and deadpan delivery, one can still see an easy-going undergraduate somewhere within this 32-year...
...Hare’s office, stretches out on the floor. He’s there not just for companionship but as a professional muse as well. Hare recently published a study on dog cognition that was lauded in CNN and openly mocked by Susan Orlean (of Orchid Thief fame) in The New Yorker...
...inflicted shotgun wound; in Saulieu, France. Late last month, La C?te d'Or was downgraded by rival food bible Gault-Millau, which gave it a 17-out-of-20 score, slipping from its previous 19. The only chef in the world to have a public company, Loiseau rose to fame as a pioneer of nouvelle cuisine and operated three other eateries in Paris. His death sparked criticism of the power of the rating systems. Loiseau once said, "If I lose a star, I'll kill myself...
...newfound box-office clout. It's particularly helpful for a Strindberg play about a destructive marriage, hardly a surefire draw. "If I've introduced the Gandalf audience to Strindberg," he says, "that's thrilling." YET GANDALF HAS GIVEN McKellen a kind of magic that is stronger than fortune or fame. The current crop of fantasy films has become a full-employment plan for the best older British stage actors, but when McKellen plays Gandalf, the mysteries of life and death seem concealed beneath the lines of that marvelously craggy face. And, as an actor who is very careful to choose...