Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...couldn't keep your eyes off that long, looping swing that sent many moon shots into the right field seats. He even once hit a ball that sailed so high, it struck the roof of Montreal's Olympic Stadium. Strawberry was a near-lock for the Hall of Fame...
Scotti is right about one thing. The huge publicity surrounding the theft helped to launch Leonardo's great painting into the stratosphere of fame. "Mona Lisa left the Louvre a work of art," Scotti writes. "She returned an icon." Truer to say she returned a pop-culture celebrity, the kind who's helpless to stop the world from spreading loose talk about her. That's a temptation neither of these books was able to resist...
...Spurred by the marriage of then-42-year-old Demi Moore to then-27-year-old heartthrob Ashton Kutcher, cougar mania swept Hollywood at the start of the millennium and engulfed both fictional characters (Samantha Jones, the seminal cougar of “Sex and the City” fame) and real-life women (most recently, Madonna, age 50, and her barely-legal Brazilian lover, Jesus Luz). Even Sarah Palin was deemed to possess cougar-worthy hotness, a status bolstered when doctored photos of her clad in a star-spangled bikini hit the web. “Cougar Town...
...Outwit: The Freestyle Rap Competition (Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall) — Supposedly, some of Harvard's "finest rhythm aces" and singsong wordsmiths are going to battle it out for "glory, fame" in an event organized by Tuesday Magazine. We have a hunch that the content won't quite take the "money, cash, hoes" angle we're used...
...periods. Recent finds also include a copy of the architectural plans for Grand Central Station, a photograph of a scoreboard from a World Series game with Babe Ruth’s name on it, and autochromes (early color photographs on glass) by the Lumière brothers of filmmaking fame. The Portrait Collection, the bulk of which was donated in the early 20th century by Evert J. Wendell 1882, spans the ages, from 16th century engravings to 1920s photographs. Objects in the collection range from engravings of French military uniforms to an entire set of cigarette boxing cards, equivalent...