Word: famed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supporters blamed racism for his defeat, most observers gave more credit to Miller's single-minded support of a state lottery; Young wanted to put the idea to a referendum. Young's critics charged that he had started his campaign too late. The crowning irony: Young, who first gained fame as an aide to Martin Luther King Jr., did not pay enough attention to black voters, losing some to Miller and failing to inspire a large black turnout...
...much time having sex with women and making illicit films of the act to study medicine, let alone cure patients, and Steckle, who constantly records conversations and events, longs to be a writer. Their motives for attending med school are unclear, and apart from the standard motives of fame and fortune, the audience is at a loss to explain their role in the experiments...
Celebrity is not new. Leo Braudy in The Frenzy of Renown traced its origins to Alexander the Great and other leaders who used fame to consolidate their power. But as a lucrative career in itself, celebrity is a recent creation. A herd of columnists like Colacello moos after the newly famous, chronicling tectonic shifts in the species and its habitats imperceptible to anyone but the most tireless observers. The columnists then become famous for their mooing...
...Topps baseball card, a talisman of the bygone era when the New York Yankees symbolized success, stability and smug superiority. If Joe DiMaggio personified grace, and Mickey Mantle represented God-given talent, then Ford, the gritty little lefty ace of the pitching staff, was guile elevated to Hall of Fame standards. This quality is not lost on the baseball commissioner, who says with reverence, "He had the greatest pick-off move to first...
Pitts' professional fame -- and her reputation in some quarters as a "guerrilla preservationist" -- originated with an audacious maneuver she made 21 years ago in the seaside town of Cape May, N.J. The community is a melange of Victorian follies -- gingerbread homes with broad, windswept verandas -- that had once been a summer playground of the wealthy. But it fell from favor and became an oceanfront backwater...