Word: fame
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...Michigan Hall of Honor. Allard’s fellow inductees include tennis player Michael Leach, swimmer Ann Colloton, synchronized swimmer Ruth Pickett Thompson, and football players Bill Hewitt and Desmond Howard. Hewitt competed professionally for both the Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago Bears, and entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971. Howard, currently an ESPN college football analyst, won the Heisman Trophy in 1991 and went on to play for five NFL teams over a 10 year period.Allard’s impressive athletic record places her among the best. As a valuable utility player, Allard made her home...
...making some kind of a difference,” according to the Harvard Gazette. “Aftertaste” has been shown at numerous screenings and film festivals and has received multiple awards, including an honorable mention at the 2004 EarthVision Environmental Film Festival. And her thesis fame and glory doesn’t stop there—the theme of power relations she explores in her thesis is also central to her first novel, “Blood Kin,” which will be published in 14 countries and was released in the U.S this month. Since...
...While the band has only made one public appearance thus far and doesn’t yet have many fans in the traditional sense of the word, Bienvenu says they’re going to work their way up the charts with a fail-proof plan for fame. “This is our recipe for success—or rather sexcess: a pound of…umm…I always forget this recipe.” His bandmate was quick to help him out. “A pound of rhythm,” Decther says...
...wand," says 28-year-old Maria de Lujan Telpuk of the incident that changed her life. Not that it turned the former kindergarten teacher into the sort of princess that appeared in the fairy tales she might once have read to her class - Telpuk's meteoric rise to national fame was consecrated by her naked appearance on the cover of February's Argentina edition of Playboy. But it's the suitcase she's holding in that photograph, bearing the flags of Argentina and Venezuela, and the cover line "Corruption Laid Bare" that reveal the story of how she became...
...Brown joins this motley crew - and chances are he will (Tussaud's has been rebuffed only once in its history by a would-be subject, and that was Mother Teresa) - he can expect to be poked, prodded, kissed and possibly abused. In a world where fame is valued more highly than respect and pop stars take precedence over playwrights, it's an opportunity not to be missed...