Word: fame
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...American music scene with his 1999 album White Ladder. His latest collection, A New Day At Midnight, is a set of 12 brand new songs that reflect Gray’s overarching mission to write and record music with personal meaning. He continues to avoid the pressures that fame, a solid first album, and a Grammy nomination tend to exert on the singer-songwriter. White Ladder fans will find that while Gray’s distinctive voice has not changed, A New Day At Midnight displays a very different sonic character from his debut album. Where Gray was upbeat...
...core, The Lord of the Rings isn't a story about frilly shirts and talking frogs; it's a tale about temptation. Frodo isn't a knight in shining armor; he's not even a wizard in a pointy hat. His only claim to fame, his sole superpower, is his uncommon ability to resist the seductive, corrupting temptation of the all-powerful Ring he carries. And as hard as he fights against that temptation, in the end he fails...
...DIED. HARRIET DOERR, 92, American author who achieved literary fame at the age of 73 after her first novel won the 1984 National Book Award; in Pasadena, California. Doerr's Stones for Ibarra was a poignant semi-biographical tale of a couple whose new life in Mexico quickly becomes overshadowed by the husband's dis-covery that he has leukemia...
...legend who retired at 33 and set up a Coca-Cola franchise in Hamburg after the war, as an inspiration. Klitschko is considering going into business or politics after his fighting career, and doesn't rule out returning to Ukraine to forge a career in government. With his present fame in his homeland, where he has helped finance the reconstruction of an Orthodox church in Kiev, that shouldn't be too difficult. As for his boxing career, he has only one hard and fast rule: He will never fight his brother in the ring. "We both love our mother...
...rakish Academy Award-winning actor whose menacing screen presence defined a new type of tough guy in classics such as The Magnificent Seven (1960), an American version of Akira Kurosawa's Japanese epic The Seven Samurai, and The Great Escape (1963); in Los Angeles. Coburn, who rose to fame as the secret agent in the James Bond spoof Our Man Flint, was largely confined to minor roles during his career. While battling debilitating arthritis, however, Coburn won an Oscar in 1998 for his powerful performance as the abusive alcoholic "Pop" Whitehouse in Affliction...