Word: famed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard is jumping on the bandwagon of Mandela's worldwide fame and political success, attempting to obliterate that shameful history. It is both telling and amusing that the University Gazette (Sept. 24) managed to prepare a 28-paragraph front-page story without ever mentioning the protracted controversy over Harvard's South African investments and the stand of Harvard's governing boards throughout Mr. Mandela's long years in prison...
...themes working through the stories, it is disillusionment that seems to cast its shadow most often upon the main characters. In "Willing," an actress finds herself without money and fame, moves back home and takes up with an auto mechanic: "It had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with...She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told `There you go.'" In "Real Estate," a woman named Ruth becomes so dissatisfied with her life that she finds metaphysical consolation only...
...council has its hands full keeping track of its budget and making sure those few people who show up to Springfest don't leave in an ambulance. Those of you seeking fame, glory, and the salvation of the oppressed, should find another outlet. Naoh D. Oppenheim '00 is a social studies concentrator in Adams House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
...then there's the fame fetish. Maybe they're arrogant, maybe they're insecure or maybe they're just normal guys who happen to have come up with a bunch of songs about being famous, but Reel Big Fish certainly spend more than enough time singing about being stars. Their comments on popularity range from the extraordinarily subtle "Big Star"-"Now that I'm a big star what am I gonna do/I'm so bored countin' all my money"--to the potential attempt at modesty "I'm Cool" (a remake of the hidden track on Turn the Radio...
...years old...and I've always hoped I've done something to make the world a little better," says the Crimson editor and former History and Literature concentrator. "But I never achieved fame until I began waving the little sentimental Harvard flag...