Word: fame
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...dream seminar facilitators would be Click and Clack of NPR fame, though they have yet to answer his repeated messages...
...Rookie of the Year award, World Series champion in 1986 with the New York Mets, and National League home run leader two years later with 39, Strawberry was hailed as an excellent hitter. He was once believed to be a future candidate for the Hall of Fame. He was considered a positive force in last year's Yankee clubhouse and was expected to contribute more this year with the retirement of designated hitter Chili Davis...
American opera and the national pastime have two things in common: devoted fans and Cooperstown, N.Y. Located a few miles from the Baseball Hall of Fame in this upstate town, the Glimmerglass Opera is famed for imaginative productions featuring young American singers on the cusp of major careers. This summer, for its 25th anniversary season, it will present four works in repertory, including the well-known--La Boheme and Salome--and the neglected: Handel's Acis and Galatea and The Glass Blowers, a 1913 operetta by John Philip Sousa. Though he became conductor of the U.S. Marine Band...
...people should. Her theory? Kidman is Satan incarnate--a fraud, a floozy who has manipulated her way onto movie screens, magazine covers and into our collective consciousness. "She's pure evil," my mom has said on more than one occasion. "She married Tom Cruise for the money, for the fame, for the camera flashes." "She's a bad actress." "She's naked all the time." "I heard she sleeps around." I just figured my mom had a secret crush on Tom Cruise and was taking it out on poor Nicole, but it seems that lots of people feel this...
...From what sheis learned in the industry, modeling isnit all itis cracked up to be. The fame and wealth that surrounds such supermodels as Niki Taylor and Elle MacPherson is often simply an illusion for the rest of the modeling world. iIf this was what my future was banking on, I would have a different attitude,i Chinwe says. iBut I just go into it for fun. I understand and respect that it is different for a lot of the other girls.i For a lot of the girls involved in modeling, the lifestyle can be dangerous. Chinwe has the unique...