Word: famed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aaron received 406 of 415 votes fromthe Baseball Writers Association and was electedto the Baseball Hall of Fame...
...Seinfeld of print; it's a magazine that prides itself on being about nothing. We readers have always been in search of 15 minutes of fame, 15 minutes of mindless ecstatic delight in the marginalia of our college, continually examined and undressed. Addictively, slavishly, we read FM with our eyes glazed with dim recollection, with our teeth gnashing over memories of the low-fat plum pudding bars and fish pizzaiola which Harvard Dining Services purveys. We are easily stupefied by the most clever publication around. Like the couple in Don Delillo's White Noise, who make love only...
Ramesses is also much celebrated outside of Egypt, though many Westerners probably don't connect the name with the fame. In Exodus he is simply known as "Pharaoh," and Shelley's poem Ozymandias, inspired by the fallen statues at the Ramesseum, his mortuary temple at Thebes, takes its title from the Greek version of one of the ruler's alternate names, User-maat-re. "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" said the inscription on the pharaoh's statue in Shelley's sonnet. Though the poet was making the point that such boasts are hollow because great monuments eventually...
...death's arrow with the motto, "It pierces eternally, flies quickly and kills." Before the two figures is a tumbled mass of emblems of the world: armor and a wheel-lock gun (military glory), a bishop's miter and a papal tiara (religious authority), a laurel wreath (cultural fame), money, jewels, playing cards, sheet music-and a mirror that reflects only a skull...
...place in the United States where so much can be seen for twenty-five cents as in Barnum's American Museum.'" It was the best advertising that Barnum could have hoped for, and it was not false, since his Museum did indeed house a plethora of oddities. Barnum's fame was not unfounded, but it benefited greatly from his marketing genius...