Word: famed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bullying the songs' pop intricacies. "My Lucky Day" draped the bombast of seventies' rock over the pop sensibilities of the Beatles. By the third song, the band had worked up a full sweat. The bassist was dancing and Falkner had struck enough Cheshire grin rock star poses to send fame loathers like Pearl Jam and angst mongers like the Smashing Pumpkins running for the hills...
This week, FM wonders what's in a name--"Rising Star: A Brand Name History," and the Endpaper by Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan. We resolve to find fame, be it brief, be it phony--Adam Taub becomes a precocious pre-frosh and Noah Oppenheim leads a troupe to New York City to hit the big time--all for the sake of Fifteen Minutes...
...rise to fame was engineered before it even happened. Said the New York Times in February, 1983, before his Rookie of the Year campaign, "Strawberry's record had preceded...
...where Ananda hosts her popular music video program has been divided into 15 separate booths. My companions and I take a moment to huddle and take stock. We say a brief prayer to the spirit of Sammy Davis Jr., and head off to our separate booths in search of fame and fortune...
...need to show us, and the world, that fame and power are the proper qualifications for commencement speakers after all. For the sake of our dangerously over-inflated collective ego, you need to show us that you really do have something to say relevant to our lives and relevant to the world we're entering. And, along the way, you need to make some jokes about cars...