Word: famed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soul. The first is the book?s author, Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez, Nobel prizewinner and one of the greatest living storytellers. The other is the late Pablo Escobar, once head of the Medell?n drug cartel and a terrorist responsible for hundreds of violent deaths. These two men, who achieved international fame and fortune peddling their respective though vastly different habit-forming products, seem to have been destined for a literary rendezvous. One can almost hear Garc?a M?rquez asking, Who? What? Where? When? and Why? on every minutely detailed page of this factual account of political kidnappings orchestrated by Escobar. The writer...
BOOKS . . . RAGE FOR FAME: THE ASCENT OF CLARE BOOTHE LUCE: She may be only one of history?s footnotes now, but in her heyday Clare Boothe Luce was, after Eleanor Roosevelt, the most talked-about woman in America. TIME Critic John Elson writes that Boothe seemingly had it all: she was a headlining journalist (for Life and the original Vanity Fair); a successful playwright (?The Women?); a two-term Congresswoman from Connecticut; and later U.S. ambassador to Italy. She had a merciless wit and stunning looks to go with her smarts. Drawing on interviews with family, friends and Luce herself...
...right now, fame beckons. MTV has been pushing videos by Hanson and Lang and pushing them hard. Of course, the next time we hear from any of these groups, their voices might have changed...
...Some people see the things I do as a lot like what they're going through," he acknowledges. "It may provide them company in the loneliness of being human." At the same time, intense fame scares him: "It can't be true and it can't be sustained," he says. Over the years, Taylor has acquired a reputation for moral integrity, and as a result, he is flooded with benefit requests from politicians and causes. He remains proudly political, "a lefty like my pop," a genteel North Carolina physician who was an Adlai Stevenson Democrat and a strong advocate...
...GEES Stayin' alive: the brothers Gibb (despite historically bad hairdos) enter Rock Hall of Fame...