Word: famed
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...beloved only child in Shillington, a small town in southeastern Pennsylvania, he dreamed of becoming a writer, of seeing his work appear on the pages of The New Yorker. And -- presto! -- these things occurred and were then followed by unanticipated consequences: lots of money, critical recognition and fame. Worse fates have befallen people, and Updike adjusted as best he could: he cashed the checks, entertained intrusive interviewers and basked modestly in the limelight. But several years ago, his equanimity slipped when he heard that someone, somewhere, was planning to write his biography. "To take my life," he thought, "my lode...
While some people may have found the pressure of the instant fame that followed difficult to handle, the charming and affable Hughes just...
Just ask his Harvard teammates. They gave up a long time ago. So they just call him "Elroy," from Jetsons' fame...
...Chalkhills and Children" also achieves a meditative tone in a slow, heavy journey over a dream landscape which makes a statement about the danger of fame. Moulding's attempt at thoughtfulness, however, falls flat in "Cynical Days," a song resembling a pre-teen poem of depression: "Another see-through scheme, people are shallow. The dark night's closing in, my dark thoughts follow." By forcing Partridge's voice to assume a lilting tone, "Cynical Days" leans more toward the laughable than the depressing...
Thus some of Rushdie's detractors can now say that a symmetrical justice has been served: those who court fame end up with infamy. The man who notoriously abandoned the longtime editor who backed him for more than a decade in order to get a contract of roughly $1 million has now got a $1 million contract on his head. And in the same breath as he became a household name, Rushdie has become a missing person. Almost worst of all, for a writer, his work of the imagination -- and an exceptionally complex work of an uncommonly fertile imagination...