Word: famed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right up--Hillary will give it to you. This year's model is advertised as new and improved--less formidable and more fun, tenderized by a year of public humiliation, performing the silly rituals that campaigns are made of (hefting Hank Aaron's bat at the Baseball Hall of Fame, tucking into barbecue at a local rib joint) and loving them. Though one can't help suspecting that she sometimes feels she's slumming, she never lets it show. No doubt she is genuinely enjoying this moment of stepping out on her own, serving her ambition after 25 years...
Life behind the scenes has its merits, I suppose, but deep down under, I think we all crave our fifteen minutes of fame, wherever and in whatever form they may turn up. The key to these few precious moments in the limelight, it would seem, is to grasp their proximity, hastily prepare as best one can, and proceed to flourish, flaunt, razzle and dazzle with all cameras pointed at you. Often, however, this is the most difficult piece of the task...
...what now? With my shot at fame and fortune seemingly behind me, what do I do? Perhaps it's a good time to begin the denial stage. Maybe those really weren't my fifteen minutes after all, and they'll come at another time, in another place, maybe with me in front of the camera, and not working what goes through it. Maybe, maybe...
...portions of his career, 1975-85. But this is no oldies review. Each European concert featured a few choice tidbits from Tracks, the four-CD retrospective of previously unreleased material that Springsteen finally decided to give his fans in honor of his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year. The band sent the Berlin crowd home with a new gospel-tinged song called Land of Hopes and Dreams: "Well I will provide for you and I will stand by your side/You'll need a good companion darlin' for this part of the ride." Just before leaving...
...while it was clear why MTV didn't cast me, I wonder why I had wanted to live in an apartment that makes Biosphere 2 look like J.D. Salinger's house. I think I was willing to make that sacrifice because I saw an opportunity for ultimate fame. Not being famous for hitting home runs or getting my breasts reduced but simply for being me. Ed McMahon kind of fame...