Word: famed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Banks have a decidedly mixed record of informing their customers of inactive accounts. In the early 1980s, Mara says, the Bank of Boston once claimed, for example, that it could not find Carl Yastrzemski to tell him his account was inactive. Yastrzemski, a Hall of Fame baseball player, was widely known to spend many an afternoon in the same place: Fenway Park, where he played left field for the Boston...
...uniform. Competing goals and agendas point to a rift which is growing appreciably. There are on one end of the spectrum the prophets of ecological apocalypse, opposed to any kind of further economic integration, and then there are at the other entrepreneurs, such as Anita Roddick of Body Shop fame, profiteering from gestural primitivism. The absence of a uniform vision underscores the inherent difficulty in establishing concrete solutions...
...level the story parallels the actual events of bygone times with the mostly erroneous "discoveries" and deductions made about them in the present. At a deeper level the piece is a meditation on the chanciness of fame and the meaning of genius, strongly suggesting that the 19th century girl was a considerably greater figure than her celebrated house guest, Lord Byron. At its most profound, Stoppard's elegant dialogue addresses the competing principles of order and disorder in the universe...
Reruns of "Car 54, Where Are You?" aired on the cable network Nick at Night over the past few years have added to his fame in a new generation of viewers...
...Smith plays are real and by and large are identified by name. The words they speak are taken verbatim from interviews by Smith herself. Some, like former Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates, have chosen public lives. Others, like the beating victims Rodney King and Reginald Denny, have had fame thrust upon them. Most live in obscurity. She seeks to convey both the essence of the individuals and the collective character of their place and time. In a century when fiction and journalism have been filching each other's virtues -- the authenticity of truth, the order and purposefulness of storytelling...