Word: stardom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...performance degree, Sarah augments her musicology and music history concentration with a healthy dose of on-campus performing. “I was lucky to have parents who were supportive and not wanting their daughter to be a violin superstar,” says Sarah, who has on-campus stardom without having to deal with pressure to succeed...
...Christine took the eyedropper tool, the shaded box and the Futura font and went to town. Quicker than lightening, Christine is one of the most thoughtful, clever designers ever to “massage the text.” FM has no doubt that Christine will rise to graphic stardom...
...from the little woman. The innocence is how she reels you into her story before she unleashes her all-knowing, all-powerful persona. Angie is the only FM writer alive who is persuasive enough to convince friends to divulge their problems with ectasy, yearning to relive childhood stardom and passion for going down on girls. Ang, as she is affectionately known, is loved by all of Harvard’s lot from the Key to the Bee to the Bookish. In addition to talent, Angie will bring warmth and compassion to FM’s next guard. Her Fifteen Minutes...
From the moment his career took off, he began trading on his stardom to produce edgy films like Downhill Racer, The Candidate and President's Men--movies that resonated with a nation disillusioned by Watergate and Vietnam. And still in the glow of his 1980 directorial debut with Ordinary People, which won him Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director, he founded the Sundance Institute. "The industry was moving more and more away from the films that were made in the '70s, which were about things, which were more diverse," he says. "The mainstream was going more centralized and more...
...little way down the road, at more than 60 martial-arts training schools. Fields bristling with rows of corn give way to a landscape of young boys?often several hundred to a class?moving in eerie synchronization as they kick and punch their way toward dreams of stardom as martial masters or celluloid action heroes. Most of the more than 20,000 students will return home after a few years to humble lives as security guards or construction workers. The fortunate few will be chosen by the abbot as monks, earning the Buddhist surname "Shi." They'll pay their dues...