Word: fame
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...flair when he turned the family wholesale-leather business into the nation's largest retailer of leather apparel, now known as Wilsons the Leather Experts Inc. But Berman's true passion is gambling: he has won three national poker titles, and is a member of the Poker Hall of Fame at Binion's Horseshoe in Las Vegas. At a poker table, Gaming magazine once wrote, Berman plays "with the insight of a psychiatrist and the determination of a club fighter...
...entrance panel. "I was the last one they admitted," she says, with a mix of relish and wonderment at how things have turned out. She made her debut at the opera house in Graz in 1992 and was later hired by the State Opera in Vienna. Despite growing international fame and engagements at prestigious venues like La Scala, the Met and the Opéra Bastille in Paris, she has remained with the State Opera, where she is paid the same salary as other house singers. Onstage in Vienna, she has made a specialty of mezzo-soprano roles in Mozart...
Though it seems Spotnitz is headed for science fame, he still plays it cool, playing down his achievements. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do” is a popular advertisement for Apple computers. It’s also a truism to which Spotnitz wholeheartedly subscribes. While he may not be insane, Spotnitz certainly is capable of changing the world...
While Sargent preferred to work on the murals, his fame and demand as a portrait painter often got in the way of the project’s completion...
...you’re Harvard, you get the chance to pad your stats in the one area in which your athletic department is head and shoulders above the rest. Harvard’s biggest claim to fame is its 41 varsity sports—a number that leads the nation. Now add Dartmouth’s men’s and women’s swimming and diving program. Ka-ching! Just like that, we’re a couple of rugby teams, equestrain teams, archeries and a rifling program away from...