Word: famed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...identity, the meaning and energy of a man's life, which should be an adventure, an allegory, a quest. Bly, with some validating help on television from Bill Moyers, has brought the masculine psyche onto the stage of Oprah- consciousness. There it is either enjoying its 15 minutes of fame or remaking Americans' understanding of men, and therefore of men and women and of life itself...
Among the unamused: Geller himself. After the ads aired in 1989, he sued Timex and the advertising firm Fallon McElligott, which created the spot, for a very down-to-earth $8 million. Geller asserted that Timex used the fame of his "psychic abilities" to sell their watches. But last month a New York district court judge threw out four of Geller's five claims, such as the assertion that the ad violated his right to control his own image and publicity. The case will now proceed on the sole claim that Tim Dry, the actor featured in the commercials...
...less enlightening at work. No one has accused Williamson of greed -- a single mother, she lives modestly with her daughter India, 14 months, in a two- bedroom apartment in West Hollywood -- but her desire for publicity is another matter. "She's an expression of the entertainment industry -- fueled by fame and the desire to be a star," says an expert on new religious movements in California. "The course is the perfect disconnected religion of the '90s. It allows driven, self-absorbed, narcissistic people to continue in their ways...
...Orleans in 1897, clarinetist and soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet was one of the most talented and influential jazz musicians who ever blew a horn. As Louis Armstrong did for the trumpet, Bechet turned the soprano sax into a powerful solo voice. If Armstrong went on to achieve greater fame, Bechet had the more interesting life: affairs with Josephine Baker, Bessie Smith and Tallulah Bankhead; deportation from Britain; gunfights in Paris; and finally, ascension to the status of a national hero in France, where he died in 1959. Along the way, the hot-tempered Creole managed to record hundreds of tunes...
...Brookner's 10th, for the lives portrayed in it are anything but brief. Fay Dodworth, the narrator, is approaching 70 at the time she tells her story; her reminiscences are set off after seeing an obituary of Julia Wilberforce, who was nearly 80. Both women had achieved a certain fame when young, Julia as a sophisticated cabaret performer and Fay as a singer of ballads on the BBC. Their friendship did not begin then or, in truth, ever. They were thrown together because both married men who belonged to the same law firm and were forced to socialize. "I never...