Word: fame
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Sometimes surgery is unavoidable. Each year doctors in the U.S. perform 270,000 knee replacements and 170,000 hip replacements. So many patients have benefited that a lot of people, like Mike Ditka, 63, the Chicago Bears' Hall of Fame tight end, have had both hips replaced. To keep his new joints in good condition, Ditka works out daily. "As you get older," he says, "whatever the complications are, they're going to become magnified a hundred times if you don't exercise...
...shows including ABC's Wide World of Sports and Nightline; in Manhattan. Renowned for coining "the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" tagline, Arledge won almost every award in the industry, including 37 Emmys and broadcasting's most prestigious accolade: induction into the Television Academy Hall of Fame...
...Party, for whom she worked as a political scientist. Her departure was prompted by the "politically correct" taboos that dominate progressive left-wing circles when it comes to tackling the oppression of Muslim women. But her critics see Hirsi Ali as a political opportunist who's using her newfound fame to ease her way into politics. Hirsi Ali denies it. "I was not looking for a cause, but all of a sudden I am in the middle of one," she says. "I was asked to take part in a TV discussion to mark international women's day and was shocked...
Despite all of the fame Gray has achieved in the past few years both in the United States and the UK, his music still seems to come across with the same level of personal authenticity found in his pre-fame debut. This quality is best gleaned from Gray’s live performances, where one is presented with a no-frills emotional performance that Gray himself seemingly manages to enjoy as well. New Day songs such as “Be Mine” and “Real Love” have both popped up on Gray?...
...dire need of psychological help. Moviegoers agreed that this story of the journey of mobster Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro) towards mental stability, aided by his reluctant psychiatrist Ben Sobel (Billy Crystal), was an innovative comedic undertaking which put its then-unknown production companies on the map of Hollywood fame...