Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. Funny, if often unkind, inside reminiscences of the literati (Gertrude Stein, Ford Madox Ford, Scott Fitzgerald) who befriended the young unknown writer in his Paris springtime before The Sun Also Rises thrust him into their own outer-world of fame...
Nickels & Dimes. Cushing's fame as a fund-raiser is so great that one letter to his residence came addressed to "Come On Wealth" Avenue. He takes in and gives out about $20,000 a day. "No combination of 20 U.S. bishops has raised as much as Cushing has in nickels and dimes and half-dollars for the mission," says one bishop. Most of Cushing's donations come from what he calls "the mighty mites" of average Catholics, although he has a few tame millionaires whom he taps regularly, such as the Jewish couple who own Rockingham Park...
...Europe, 1964 promises to go down as a rare vintage year for movie actresses. The new Sylvas, Sophies and Sentas not only have body; they show as well the promise of potential fame. Individually, they are as dissimilar as Chianti, Burgundy and Liebfraumilch. What they have in common is training, intelligence and talent. They...
...serious than seductive. Europe by contrast, is burgeoning with girls who know how to be both-and have to be for the Continent's beloved bedroom operas. Ironically, the immense increase in U.S. moviemaking abroad has given Europe's New Wave actresses an unparalleled opportunity to win fame in big-budget, internationally distributed films...
...nimble stride in a script shrewdly slapped together by Scenarist Alun Owen and directed in racy "new cinema" style by Richard Lester. Scorning plot, Night affects to study an ordinary day or so in the wholly extraordinary lives of its heroes. They are the clear-eyed innocents, imprisoned by fame behind a whimsically improbable wall of wailing nymphets, but never for a moment blinded to the really flagrant foolishness of the adult world around them. Representing the dangers of creeping maturity is a low-comedy menace identified as Paul's granddad (Wilfrid Brambell). Though everyone remarks how clean...