Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Tussaud's imparts a lesson to the schoolkids and tourists who tramp through its labyrinthine exhibits, it's about the pre-eminence of pop culture, and the random nature - and transience - of fame. Hollywood A-listers, sports people and British royals hog the limelight. There are 400-odd figures on show, but all scientific endeavor is represented by Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Charles Darwin, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and TIME's Person of the Century, Albert Einstein, who share a small annex with Vincent Van Gogh, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. In the dim light of the first gallery...
...church organs. The Bad Seeds chant the chorus like oarsmen on a Viking ship: “Dig yourself / Laz’rus, dig yourself / Back in that hole.” In sarcastic spoken-word, Cave recounts the mournful wanderings of post-tomb Lazarus, whose brief encounter with fame in modern America ends “back on the streets in New York City / In a soup queue / A dope fiend / A slave / Then prison / Then the madhouse / Then the grave.” It’s a fitting end for any character in a Bad Seeds song...
...pressure from her archaeologist father to enter academia, Guinean-born Katoucha (born Katoucha Niane) became one of the world's first African supermodels, hitting the runway for the likes of Christian Lacroix and Yves Saint Laurent and starting her own label. Postfashion, the gracious celebrity used her fame and her horrific experience as a 9-year-old to write a book and speak out against female genital mutilation. Katoucha, who apparently fell from the houseboat she owned in Paris, had been missing since January. Her body was found in the Seine...
...Pentagon Papers into the public record in 1971, is just thrilled that his candidacy has given his idea so much attention - and by "so much," he means any at all. Just being a big party candidate and getting in the debates imparts a certain amount of fame. At the National Latino Congreso in L.A. back in October, he got to speak to 200 people right before the mayor, since they invited all the candidates and only he and Dennis Kucinich showed up - and Kucinich was late. "The day I filed for office I got more attention on the initiative than...
...ethos of 2003’s “Dangerous Magical Noise.” The undeniable standout track is “Leopardman At C&A,” a sinister rocker with lyrics by graphic novelist Alan Moore of “V for Vendetta” fame. The song, based on the graphic novel of the same name, paints a savage, futuristic world of “barcode face tattoos,” “vegan cannibals,” and barbarians that use “the juice from cell phones?...