Word: famed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fear the consequences of a non-careerist life for the simple reason that it has given me securities that money, power, and fame cannot buy, attract, or command. Twenty-one years later, I am what I was not at graduation, mostly my own man. (No one is entirely his/her own person, for reasons of mortality...
...seem an odd way of appreciating Jacqueline Kennedy, but think for a moment what she might have been had she possessed a different character. And, for that matter, what her children might have become, given their fame, their money, their trauma -- their excuse. Instead, she was what she was, and they are, admirably, one gathers, what they are, thanks to their mother. Important things are unfakeable...
...civilized woman (John Kennedy was about half-civilized). Her civilized quality derived in large part from her insistence that her life belonged to her and her children. It is hard enough for a celebrity to be sane; fame is a distorting, corrupting and even psychotic environment. People in a healthy community gossip about people they know. It must disturb something in human nature to gossip so addictedly about people one doesn't know -- all of those brightly painted, artificial familiars...
...stores also impress the industry analysts. Says Kurt Barnard, publisher of Barnard's Retail Marketing Report: "Disney and Warner are taking advantage of characters that America has grown up with, that have endeared themselves to the American family for generations. It is a very powerful sales point: leveraging the fame and the hallowed position that these characters occupy in the American home...
...will unveil Sony Wonder, a free exhibition space with the first permanent interactive movie theater and other beguilements. A London Sony store is in the offing. Bob Wallen, Sony Signatures' senior vice president for licensing and merchandising, knows that his company, unlike Disney and Warner, has no cuddly corporate fame to leverage. "There was no past for Sony," he says. "We are breaking new ground...