Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...genius-in-exile, but Hemingway's feet were firmly planted on the pave. When he remembers looking at James Joyce dining en famille in Michaud's on the corner of the Rue Jacob, he remembers also that he envied neither Joyce's genius nor his fame, but the tournedos the "Celtic crew" could afford to eat and he and Binney usually could not. On the one occasion they treated themselves to a Michaud dinner after a pony came home for him, the meal did not sit well. In a wistful, almost clumsy way, he tells...
What Baby really wants is to give success a satirical kiss of death. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward play the pampered, corrupted children of commercialized glamour, tinkling symbols of beauty, wealth, sex and fame. A matched pair of Hollywood divinities, they spend most of their time polishing their halos. Unconsciously, they are cynics who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. They pay a visit to a kind of hermit of integrity, a bachelor, writer and onetime friend unseen for 15 years. A bearded pixy, nicely played by Costigan, the writer likes to surround himself with pygmy...
...onetime Wunderkind of McCarthy-committee fame was accused on seven counts of tampering with grand jury witnesses in order to quash a 1959 indictment against four swindlers in the $5,000,000 stock defrauding of United Dye & Chemical Corp. Cohn faced up to 35 years in prison and $26,000 in fines. During 17 days of testimony by 67 witnesses, two of the swindlers swore that they paid $50,000 to duck indictment, and they said that one-third of the money went to Cohn. Nearing the end of its deliberation, the jury reportedly stood eleven to one for convicting...
...destroying the Eatherly myth. But he enjoys making the kill a little too much. He browbeats poor Eatherly throughout most of the book, insinuates that Eatherly is an artful con-man who planned the whole hoax from the start. Actually, Eatherly seems more used than using. He fell into fame by chance and was exploited. Today he lives in gratifying notoriety in Galveston. Without Hiroshima, he would undoubtedly have been just one more anonymous neurotic, wishing somebody somewhere cared...
...what he saw terrified him so that he fainted; the frightened monks who came to help crossed themselves and called a doctor. The credulous who saw the blood flowing from Padre Pio's hands, feet and side cried, "It is the stigmata!" And the monk's fame began to spread...