Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...some combination of violence, theatricality, and grotesque individual ambition that resonates in the bones of the culture. As Sondheim sees them, America’s Presidential assassins—there are nine, five of whom got their man—are a petty, volatile, and above all fame-hungry bunch, turning the American Dream back against the country that brought it into being. “Everybody’s got the right to their dreams,” goes the opening chorus.It’s a twisted, carnivalesque historical outlook that’s made visually literal...
...Chopra's take on those desires is one of the aspects of his thought that most sets him apart from the traditional Eastern texts he sources. Does union with the cosmos mean renouncing one's wealth, one's fame or other such amenities? "If you have guilt, fear and insecurity over money or success or anything else," Chopra writes, "these are reflections of guilt, fear and insecurity as basic aspects of your personality." Having thoroughly examined and come to know your true nature, he argues, "you will never feel guilty, fearful or insecure about money or affluence or fulfilling your...
...arrived in Zhejiang province, China, about two hours by car from Shanghai, to inspect a facility owned by one of its key suppliers. CZ-SPL is a joint venture controlled by Scientific Protein Laboratories LLC (SPL), a Waunakee, Wis., company started in 1976 by Oscar Meyer, of hot-dog fame. (The connection: pigs naturally produce proteins used in pharmaceuticals.) CZ-SPL makes a key ingredient, what in the pharmaceutical business is called an active pharmaceutical ingredient, or API, for a drug called heparin, a blood thinner that is widely used by kidney-dialysis and postsurgical patients to prevent blood clots...
...backup dancer Scooter Smiff (could anyone take him seriously with that name?) seems to be eager to fill the void. In his debut music video, “Head of My Class,” Smiff declares himself to be, well, the head of his class. His claim to fame as a dancer attracts all the ladies, despite his high voice and scrawny body screaming pre-pubescence. And it can’t be Smiff’s mind that the ladies go for because, while he boasts about getting straight A’s, Chris Brown reveals that...
...days before you were young / We used to sit in the morning sun/ And turn the radio on / What happened?”And what did happen to Travis, the compatriots of Coldplay, the band of “Why Does It Always Rain On Me?” fame? The peak of Travis’s career coincided with the release of their sophomore and junior albums, “The Man Who” (1999) and “Invisible Band” (2001). These albums featured ethereally beautiful songs where Healy’s voice melted over...