Word: famous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rosa did the now famous portrait depicting Bill astride his favorite Appaloosa. In return for the portrait, the King of Cowboys sent Rosa a pair of wild American mustangs. In no time at all, they were broken in and eating out of Rosa's hand, just as tame as kittens. They were the models for some of her most important pictures...
Plentiful Land. Cape Town soon became famous as "the tavern of the seas." Under a warm sun, crops flourished, cattle fattened and the population of the tiny station multiplied. Dutch settlers began flocking in, to be granted plots of rich farm land by the Dutch East India Company. Land was plentiful, and rather than survey it all, the company often granted a newcomer as much as he could ride around on horse back in a given number of hours...
...buddies in time of trouble. "I know if I get in a jam," said a fellow pilot recently, "I'm going to get help. I can depend on Kasler." Last week loyalty brought disaster to Jim Kasler, the "one-man Air Force" who was fast becoming the most famous pilot over-North Viet Nam (TIME...
...picture is a hit, Streisand may finally become assured of her talent. To the Brooklyn girl who didn't see Manhattan until she was 14, the "something" she has always wanted is not to be simply a smash on the West End or Broadway. "To me, being really famous," she says, "is being a movie star...
...hero of the film, Miguelin, played by an actual matador named Miguelin, rises from poverty to become a famous bullfighter. Although the outward circumstances of his life seem to change for the better, Rosi continually insinuates that they don't. The impressario who grabs a fat chunk of Miguelin's salary as a matador closely resembles the labor contractor he worked for in the slums of Barcelona. Similarly, whores with diamond earrings are no different from the 100 pesatas per night girls he met while still a dock worker. Rosi carries these parallels to extremes; even the jet-set types...