Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EVENTUALLY MANAGED to talk to Nixon, on his campaign plane after a speech in the northern part of the state. As the plane took off that night a plump young man named Patrick Buchanan (who was soon to earn a certain fame as the author of Nixon's law and order speeches) came back to where I was sitting and said pleasantly, "So you want to speak to the Boss?" I said I did and after a little screening, I was invited to the front of the cabin, where Nixon was sitting back with his feet up on the window...
...many counts, this Pope was fallible. He was often a deplorable character, a petulant, scheming, vainglorious seeker of fame with the divine arrogance of one who declares that "he who is not with me is against me." He was also a collector of injustices; anyone who offended him but once was sure to feel the whiplash of his five-foot line. Those were the days before words went soggy in a Sargasso Sea of print. Men wielded words as deadly weapons, names had magical significance, and a barbed line could not be lightly shaken off by the hooked fish...
...Ullman joined a provincial troupe, not long afterward became a member of the prestigious National Theater of Norway and married an Oslo psychiatrist, Hans Stang. By the time she was 26, she was a major stage actress in her own country, with four films to her credit. But her fame remained sealed inside Norway until Bergman, struck by the resemblance between Ullman and his longtime star, Bibi Andersson, (The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries) offered her a role in his study of personality transference, Persona. Radiant over her success as an actress and her selection by Bergman, she told the Stockholm...
...Fame did not come for almost another 20 years-mainly for his hilarious, linked tragicomedies, The Horse's Mouth and Herself Surprised. It is only now, a decade after Gary's death, that his continuing reputation has resulted in the first full-scale biography...
...Dating Game has a single contestant pick a date from the voices of three hidden boys (. . .if she is a girl; girls, if he is a boy, of course). The people she picks from usually include one or two people of fifth-rank fame, old boyfriends, and total unknowns. She gets to ask each of them a number of what-would-you-do-in-the-following-situation style of questions for a few minutes before she makes her choice...