Word: fame
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When Thompson began to withdraw Eloise from the public--some say she did not want to compete with her fictional creation's fame--Knight pursued other projects. He went on to illustrate more than 60 books (Where's Wallace?, Sunday Morning). He is currently a staff artist for Vanity Fair. But it's his iconic depiction of Eloise, the enfant terrible with porcupine-needle hair, that he will be known...
...City” catapulted the sweet-flavored cosmopolitan to fame. Many hipsters wanted to toast glasses of the pink liquid, and bartenders quickly took note. Professionals in the liquor industry began searching for another chic, girly drink with the same winning qualities, and many of these searches ended with the apple martini. Apple have always been ideal for fall festivities, and many party-goers have adopted sour apple martinis as this season’s cocktail...
Perhaps most interesting is the case of Mary Lou Schiavo ’76, who achieved further Glamour fame after taking home two more awards from the magazine. In the ’80s, Schiavo, then inspector general for the Department of Transportation, won Glamour’s “Working Woman” contest. Then, after writing a book, teaching aeronautical engineering and working for the California law firm Baum & Hedland, she took home one of Glamour’s “Woman of the Year” awards in 1997, a title recently shared...
...here lies the true appeal of the Strokes: Given a twist of fate, a college rejection, or a lucky break, they could be you, or you could be them. Red-carpet celebrity as austere diversion is passé—Blind Date, American Idol or Becoming have brought fame beyond the realm of fantasy to remote possibility for millions. While Casablancas and company are certainly too talented to be compared to the likes of Justin Guarini, their earthly manner suggests that there is a dangerous arbitrariness to who stands in front of a screaming arena, and who is destined...
...lengthy prison experience is intense, and it brings out the best in writing that is otherwise bland. He is arrested after sneaking back into Burma in 1998, and when he withholds his identity from police, they torture him. It's nothing that would make Amnesty International's Hall of Fame, but it is terrifying, and Mawdsley makes you feel it. Worst might be the "iron road," where a metal rod is rolled up and down the victim's shins until the skin is stripped to the bone. The terror almost leads him to abandon his mission...