Word: stardom
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have to look too far to see why people looked down on Smith. In fact, you need only look precisely where she wanted you to: at the double-D twin attention rockets that helped blast her to stardom. (In life Smith was coy about the specifics of her plastic surgery--its existence confirmed, grimly, by the medical examiner after her death--even if she was not shy about displaying the results.) We have a Puritan suspicion of people who improve on what nature gave them. FX's Nip/Tuck both glamorizes and moralizes about plastic surgery. Last year Hillary Clinton dealt...
...must still work on performing week in, week out to take the next step in his ascension to Crimson stardom...
...Song For Clay (Disappear Here),” before the entrance of a fast snare and surging guitar riff that brings the energy to a classic Bloc Party peak. The lyrics set a theme for the rest of the album, which features more overt allusions to the issues of stardom and even the drudgery of life in the band’s homeland, England: “Because East London is a vampire / It sucks the joy right out of me,” shouts Okereke. “Hunting for Witches” expands upon Bloc Party?...
...father like Archie Manning, the Ole Miss legend and New Orleans Saints standout quarterback. All the Manning boys are genetic freaks: younger brother Eli is a starting quarterback, though not an effective one for now, with the New York Giants, and older brother Cooper was slashing toward stardom before a spinal disorder ended his career (he's now a successful businessman in New Orleans...
...film's director, would put it. He played a type he had known in his past, a Cockney con man with a chipper way of expressing a gloomy view of human nature. Here, for the first time, he achieved that quicksilver quality that was the basis of his stardom and, ultimately, his legend...