Word: renowned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kung fu diva is played by Bow Sim Mark, a world-renown Tai Ch'i master. She is known for her work in transforming Tai Ch'i into a performing...
...ever acted Othello in a major movie. Now LAURENCE FISHBURNE is close to signing on to play Shakespeare's Moor in a version directed by Kenneth Branagh. Some actors, given current sensitivities, might balk at playing theater's most famous wife killer, especially if they had won renown as bad husband Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It? But at least this time Fishburne won't have to wear mean purple bell-bottoms...
...Harvard audience watching the current touring production at the Colonial, for example, the tale seems eerily familiar. Wasn't this just the subject of a national uproar? A juvenile, branded a criminal, overcomes unsurmountable obstacles through strength of character to attain ephemeral renown, only to have the dreadful past arise like a demon to snatch it away...
Even while hoping that Dunster's momentum will carry them to victory, FM can't help but notice that one more sign of randomization is making itself seen. This fall, after years of renown for less savory pursuits, Harvard's own Adams House not only won intramural competitions in soccer and ultimate frisbee, but went on to beat Yale's intramural champs in both of these events. Now, Dunster, the smoky little house by the river, is abuzz with volleyball. There may be strange times ahead. Wake us when they open the Mather House artspace...
...least flamboyant of the Republican contenders. But there he was in a bright vaudeville spotlight, one hand clasping a hand mike to his crooning lips and the other around the waist of his blond song-and-dance partner, Astaire and Rogers-style. "Spotted owl, Kathleen Brown/ Endangered species of renown," they harmonized lustily. "We beat the California blue-hoos ... Yeah...