Word: famed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admiration, pity, disappointment, fear and loathing. By the time the sportswriters, columnists and comics were done with him last week, the balance was tipped against him more completely than ever. At the Hollywood Wax Museum in Los Angeles, Tyson's effigy was moved from the Sports Hall of Fame to the Chamber of Horrors. He now stands near Hannibal Lecter, the carnivore from Silence of the Lambs. For a man undone by some indigestible thing within himself, maybe that's just the right spot...
Street performers are everywhere, playing classical and folk tunes. Their audiences are bigger than in America and, seemingly, so is their pecuniary reward. Even the omnipresent Andean flute players of Coop fame are here, playing to a large and appreciative crowd in the subway...
...party in a chauffeured Kennedy campaign car that then collided with another car. The injured (and apparently ungrateful) foursome sued J.F.K. for $450,000. Among the plaintiffs: HUGH BAILEY, a colorful state senator known for his regular antics on a donkey, who hired lawyer Marvin Mitchelson, later of palimony fame. As Mitchelson's interrogatories began chipping into valuable White House time, J.F.K.'s lawyers tried a now familiar tactic. They argued that the Commander in Chief was temporarily protected from suit under the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940. A California court rejected the argument. Shortly thereafter, J.F.K...
Both Harvard and Radcliffe will have to wait until next year, but things definitely won't be the same as longtime coach and Harvard Varsity Club Hall of Fame member Horn will be stepping down from his post. Except for the 1989-90 season, Horn has been at the helm of Harvard sailing since...
...this has created the sense of an IM culture at Cabot. Weitzel makes posters every week to put in front of the dining hall, and all the stars have gained fame in Cabot...