Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Burton cares more about Cleopatra than he admits. "What if the first kiss isn't up to scratch?" he worries. "We're finished." With Taylor's assistance, Cleopatra has made him a big-money star and its success could keep him there. He has new power, not to mention fame. Before Cleopatra, Burton got $125,000 a picture; today his price is $500,000, most of which he banks. His own term for his emotional world today is "suspended animation." He has never asked for a divorce from Sybil and apparently never intends to. Meanwhile, the service is good...
...negotiated-and guided through the General Assembly-the plan that established the State of Israel (thereby earning Israel's Medallion of Valor). By now, Pearson had won such fame as a civil servant that the courtly St. Laurent, succeeding aging Mackenzie King as Prime Minister in 1948, brought him into his Cabinet as External Affairs Secretary-and into Parliament as a reluctant politician. Asked on the day he joined the Cabinet when he had become a Liberal, Pear son grinned: "Today...
Disasters of War. Dix's new renown is his second installment of fame. He had a burst of popularity in the early '20s. and the Stuttgart exhibition, with 115 graphics made between 1911 and 1928, shows why. Most of them are scenes of World War I, sketched with a fury on plain brown wrapping paper. Their strident picturing of cavernous shell craters, socket-eyed cadavers, skull-like gas masks. bloody vines of barbed wire and battered nerves has much the same pitiless sting as Goya's gruesome series of etchings. The Disasters...
Died. Mary Dowell Copeland, 48. Manhattan nightlife's big (6 ft. 3 in.), beautiful "Stutterin' Sam" of the '30s and '40s, a Texas-born show girl and one of Billy Rose's original "long-stemmed American Beauties," who quit at the height of her fame ("I've been a clothes horse for fi-i-i-ve years-how do I know I'm not an idi-i-i-ot?") to try her hand at Hollywood scriptwriting and finally became the happy wife of an advertising executive; of porphyria; in Manhattan...
Bastions of time and fame...