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It’s also built from consideration. At the Roxy, when Brownstein complained about the gusts of cold air blowing from the vents, the audience, muggy with dancing fervor, registered its protest with yelps. “Okay, if you guys are too hot, we’ll keep it on,” said Brownstein obligingly. “We’ll just have to whip ourselves into a frenzy...
...daughter Mehbooba, 42, made the party a force by tirelessly campaigning for the victims of Kashmir's violence and?insisting that the decades-long impasse can't continue. "We don't have anAladdin's lamp," she told Time, "but we will provide a healing touch." Her fervor registered with Kashmir's voters, as even Omar Abdullah admits. "We may have lost," he says, "but the democracy has won." As Kashmiris proved, the ballot can sometimes defeat bullies and bullets...
...diaries were allowed. No photographs, no recordings. Expendable papers were burned daily. So George Elsey's memory has become one of the great ledgers of America's wartime history. Elsey saw Roosevelt's original fervor for his maps and battle reports waste away with his health. Elsey saved a couple of papers with the President's signature; firm, strong in 1942, quaky and feeble by 1945. "When Churchill entered the room, he seemed to fill it," says Elsey. "His reputation, the aura that preceded him, was so great. We were in awe." Captain Ogden Kniffin, Elsey's Army counterpart, made...
...allure of celebrity. In 2000, at age 24, she became deservedly famous for White Teeth, a sprawling, erudite comedy about culture clash and bioengineering in postcolonial Britain. Brilliant, young and beautiful, she became a favorite of the British media, which followed her love life and hairstyle changes with a fervor Americans reserve for cast members of Friends...
...subs at the end of the bench. When a former player approaches Koufax for an autograph, she writes, he blanches because a "peer [has] become an acolyte." As one of the very greatest of living ballplayers, still venerated by fans--especially Jewish fans, who embraced him with a fervor bordering on idolatry--Koufax could build a very profitable life out of his fame, yet he appears at maybe one autograph show a year, content to make a living instead of a killing. He has elected, writes Leavy, to "opt out of his celebrity...