Word: superstardom
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Breaking away from the Southern culture is at first less noticeable than the painful break with home and high school superstardom. But with time it become much more penetrating...
Coming to Harvard from the Deep South does teach you how to break away from home and high school superstardom. It also teaches you to accept equalty the drawl and the clipped syllable; the reactionary and the revolutionary; the slow and the rushed pace...
...American Mark Spitz, Munich represents a second chance at superstardom. At 18 he entered the Mexico Games with two world records under his belt and brash predictions that he would win six gold medals. When he finished up with two gold, one silver and one bronze-a tidy tally for almost any other competitor-he felt "downright depressed." In truth, he had not swum his best. But Spitz seems to have regained confidence without cockiness. Though he now holds three world records in freestyle and butterfly, Spitz may not compete in the full range of individual and relay events...
...true child of the 1960s, Lennon had it all?LSD, heroin, groupies and so much of the razzle-dazzle of superstardom that after a while, to hear him tell it, he no longer knew which end was up. Lately it has become increasingly hard to tell what means more to him, peace propaganda or pornography. Now, after undergoing analysis in Los Angeles, he is apparently trying to relive all the hurts of the past in order to clear them from his mind. The Rollins Stone interview may thus be regarded as a kind of public therapy. But especially in Part...
...year and a half later, Janis, reaching for superstardom, quit the group and moved out on her own. With a little help from Albert Grossman, who also manages Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary and The Band, she soon developed into the world's top female rock singer, commanding as much as $50,000 a night. Like her idol Bessie Smith, Janis had a singing style as earthy as a streetwalker. There were myriad subtle ways in which her voice could range from a deep throaty groan to a high tender croon. When she licked into a phrase like...