Word: famed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writers, but she does not attempt to recreate their style. Hers is the San Francisco of the 1960s, city of foghorns and Jack Kerouac, and Tripmaster Monkey maps the crossroads of countries and characters. The Chinese-Americans of her earlier works, the Mexican-Americans of California fame, the mainstream Americans of boring jobs and boring attitudes, the blond-haired beauties and the bearded draft dodgers--all types pass through Kingston's city...
...Sylvia's, Harlem's friendliest eatery. But first, for God's sake, go to the Abyssinian Baptist Church. The pioneer architect Charles W. Bolton designed the church as an amphitheater, and for good reason: its pastor was the spell-weaving Adam Clayton Powell Sr. His son won even more fame, first as a preacher there, then as Harlem's first black Congressman. The bold spirits of both men inform the place...
...PAUL, Minn.--Before last Saturday night, Ed Krayer's biggest claim to hockey fame was his unusually-low penalty minute total...
...minutes of fame, Bordes went into hiding in Paris. But when her businessman husband was tracked down there, he explained that theirs was a marriage of convenience to help Bordes escape arranged matrimony in India. However titillating, the tale had yet to live up to the epic proportions of the Profumo case. Bordes' liaisons didn't seem all that dangerous. One newspaper even labeled the Bordes affair a mere "storm...
...Rose is found to have gambled on baseball, he can expect a year's suspension as Reds manager. If he bet on Cincinnati games, Rose could be shunned for life by the sport he personifies, jeopardizing everything he has accomplished, even the place in baseball's Hall of Fame that awaits...