Word: fame
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...ages can agree on. Except that U2 isn't quite content. After an almost five-year absence, during which Bono was named one of TIME's Persons of the Year for his work on global poverty and the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the band returns on March 3 with an album called No Line on the Horizon. It offers up a few new hits for the wedding playlist, but No Line on the Horizon is mostly restless, tentative and confused. It's not terrible, but it feels like the work of musicians torn...
...pictures of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 2009 nominees...
...time when readers desire fast-paced information and authors vie for 15 minutes of fame, those who pen novels often become names on book covers and photographs on book jackets. Rarely do we hear of unattributed works and anonymous publications in print.John Mullan’s “Anonymity” recalls a time when the majority of books were published anonymously. He reclaims these authors’ private lives from obscurity, awakening afresh their dreams of fame or their longing for privacy and their motives for anonymity that have been forgotten in the intervening centuries.Mullan begins his book...
Dupre, Ashley • efforts of to segue into polite society are hampered by public memory that fame of is based on hooker career...
...wanted sexy press, I could do a march a week, but then the issue goes away and all you have is your 15 minutes of fame. I've been given a responsibility by my community to provide real leadership, not lay down in the street and get arrested once a week." - Explaining why he conducts behind-the-scenes lobbying, in addition to public protests, to advance his goals, New York Times, August...