Word: famed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faces at the podium rarely match the memories. It is not often that the athlete being enshrined in the Hall of Fame is recognizable in the person standing there, thanking everybody as he joins the other baseball legends...
...opening chords provide the greatest dissonance. At the start of the first chapter are two quotes from Hall-of-Fame baseball star Ted Williams: one about himself and another about Black Cincinnati Reds star Eric Davis. In one, the former Bosox star says he developed his talents through practice; in the other, he says Davis is blessed with God-given athletic abilities...
Strange, though, are the ways of fate and fame. The movie shows Lewis' bravado being directed at his cousin, revivalist Jimmy Swaggart, who is portrayed at more or less regular intervals denouncing rock 'n' roll as the "devil's music" and praying for the redemption of Jerry Lee's blighted soul. But the real-life Swaggart has since been brought low by the revelation of particularly tacky sexual practices. Lewis' music, manner and morality now seem almost innocent in comparison with what has followed him up the charts and into the hearts of adolescents during the past three decades. Even...
Acting as a public policy adviser is not the only way to gain fame at Harvard. In other departments with less public appeal, Harvard's professors are known internationally...
Kevin Costner is the man of the moment and a star out of his time. What other actor would think to achieve rampant movie fame by playing a Soviet spy and two baseball fanatics? For Costner, though, the improbable risk was a good career move. As Eliot Ness in The Untouchables, he played the straightest arrow in Prohibition-era Chicago and made saintliness sexy. As Tom Farrell, the cryptic intelligence officer in 1987's No Way Out, he brought devious modernity to a character right out of a '40s suspense novel. As Crash Davis, the bush-league catcher...