Word: fame
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...only current or former roommates in the group were Suzanne M. Pomey and Hilary, who lived together freshman year. Suzanne thought her claim to fame (or notoriety) was kissing Anthony Hopkins on stage. She drank at the dinner, but all FM’s crack staff could not find out if she was enjoying a nice chianti. (This is an allusion to Hopkins’ famous portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs. Funny...
...picked. “Hmm. I see three 15 minutes of fame for you.” Christina got excited: that’s 45 minutes! “You will have three chances at immortality. First, marriage. You’re good with practical things, but when it comes to your love life you’re not even in the right ballpark!” Mary paused for a moment then turned to look Christina right in the eyes: “Are you ever perky?” She queried in solemn tones...
...other sport, baseball enshrines its history, most notably in the bosky village of Cooperstown, New York. There, hard by the pristine waters of Lake Otesaga, one finds the National Baseball Museum, the National Baseball Library and the Hall of Fame. Within the cathedral silence of the Hall visitors meet past greats, gazing mildly from bronze plaques mounted on the walls. Gathered there are the greatest ball players ever: Ruth and Gehrig, DiMaggio and Mantle, Koufax and Mathewson. The effect is stirring; unfortunately, U.S. baseball's racist past has been underplayed. It is as if we were reading a fine authorized...
Clearly, the indictment is just a beginning for Garzón, who gained global fame when he sought the extradition in 1998 of Chilean ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte for crimes against humanity. In theory, Garzón can take his time on this case: Spain?s strong antiterrorism laws allow the eight to be held without trial for two years, with a possible extension of another two. In practice, though, the pressure is on to fill in the details of how the Abu Dahdah cell?s activities fit into al-Qaeda?s global designs...
...novel centers on the ambitious Charlotte Swenson, a model who will do almost anything to gain entrance into “the mirrored room,” a magical place whose inhabitants embody success and fame. Her failure to revive her modeling career leads her to alcoholism, a sort of selective amnesia and depression. Desperate to attain her dream, Charlotte signs on to a new commercial venture best described as the Internet version of “The Real World” or The Truman Show. As the project takes on a life of its own, nurtured by the public?...