Word: fame
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...DIED. RODOLFO MORALES, 75, mild-mannered Mexican painter whose colorful, surreal renderings of everyday rural Mexico won international acclaim; in Oaxaca, Mexico. Wary of fame, Morales returned to the dusty Indian village where he grew up and spent the last 16 years of his life using money earned from his works to restore the crumbling monuments of his homeland and promote Mexican art and culture...
...DIED. ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH, 94, author and widow of high-flying pioneer Charles Lindbergh; in Passumpsic, Vermont. Five volumes of best-selling diaries and 21 books of prose and poetry won Morrow Lindbergh fame in her own right, but her marriage to the man who completed the first transatlantic solo flight put the shy Smith College graduate in the public eye. "The first couple of the skies," as they were known, flew record-breaking trips across Latin America and Asia. But the 1932 kidnapping and death of their baby Charlie ended the idyll. Moreover, the couple's isolationist statements before...
...interesting, was the appointment of Slimane in the first place. Cerebral and reserved, Slimane couldn't be more dissimilar to Galliano, the buoyant, effusive man who has spent the last four years tearing down the image of Dior and rebuilding to fit a vision uniquely his own. Slimane achieved fame in fashion circles in 1996 with his sleek, sexy designs for the Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche men's label. His clothes are unique in men's wear-slim leather coats, narrow suits and sheer shirts-subtle and elegant pieces that focus more on the cut than on styling flourishes...
...Rise to Fame...
Gerken's bout with fame did not come without a few strange occurrences. She says she got e-mails from television viewers commenting on her haircut or her make...