Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Well, the strike of 2002 was averted and the evening came off - but with one exuberant embarrassment. No. 6 was Pete Rose's all-time hit record. Suddenly, in person, there was Charlie High-Roller, banned forever from baseball, excluded from Hall of Fame consideration, but out there smiling and getting the biggest, longest cheers of the night...
...sense, Pataki's smooth glide toward a third term represents a personal triumph: the obscure state senator from Peekskill rose to fame eight years ago by toppling the mercurial Mario Cuomo, thanks mainly to being so unlike him. Like the straight man in old screwball comedies, the man who made bland a brand owed his success to being unobjectionable; but he owes his survival, in a state with 5 Democrats for every 3 Republicans, to moving so far to the center that the center itself has moved. He gave the teachers a raise; he subsidized prescription drugs for seniors...
...this irritates Monica's husband Seiku. "It is much ado about nothing," he says. "My wife was cured by the doctors and not by any miracle." He is peeved at his wife's fame, in part because the press is constantly at his doorstep. "I want to stop this jamboree, people coming with cameras every few hours or so." He concedes that the locket is part of the story of Monica's ordeal but says no one should suppose there was a cause-and-effect relationship between it and the cure. "My wife did feel less pain one night when...
...because of the celebrity of those who wore them - Elizabeth Hurley, Princess Diana and Naomi Campbell. To underscore that point, giant portraits of Hurley in the safety-pin dress she made famous and Diana in a powder-blue beaded sheath flank the entrance. The show's emphasis on fame over fashion says a lot about the V&A's reasons for staging it in the first place. When the museum announced last spring that its largest exhibition devoted to a single designer would celebrate Versace, the fashion press asked: "Why?" The V&A's reply - that this year marks...
...life miserable has rehabilitated himself by being a good father - now 62% think he will make a good King, up from 41% after she died. Even the Other Woman, Camilla Parker Bowles - Diana dubbed her the "Rottweiler" - appears routinely at Charles' side. Burrell profited mildly from his post-Diana fame by giving lectures about royalty on the QE2 and writing a book on how to entertain, but unlike so many other royal retainers, he never cashed in with a tell-all memoir. He left a tantalizing hint in his police statement that he might disgorge Diana's secrets...