Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Kane's first album Sigil, meaning "Wake up" in his local Wolof language, was an underground hit, mixing traditional singing, funk and soul. Kane's next record, due to be released in 2008, is already widely anticipated. But, as the man himself likes to remind listeners in song, fame and success didn't come so easily...
...surreal enough that TV channels, and even respectable newspapers, have started calling Sanjay Dutt "Munnabhai," after a character in one of his recent hit movies - a gangster who discovers Gandhi's philosophy and transforms his life. Just as in America, the controversy seems to have only stoked Dutt's fame, and at this point his fan base rivals the Britney Spears fan club. With the controversy around the nuclear deal threatening the close ties between Washington and New Delhi, perhaps the two countries' shared celebrity obsession is just what's needed to keep the strategic partnership going...
...most glamorous," and that prostitutes might ensnare him as he passed through their red-light districts. People returning from London carried gossip that William was free with his favors, and a homosexual. The publication of Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare's decidedly erotic poem and his biggest claim to fame among his contemporaries, disrupted her quiet life. Neighbors likely sneered that Anne inspired the poem's "desirous older woman" with a boy husband...
...Here in Chaoyang, an impoverished northeastern Chinese city surrounded by cornfields where farmers still use horse-drawn plows, prehistoric bones have jump-started the economy in a way no free-trade zone or joint venture could have done. The region shot to fame in the mid-1990s when paleontologists began discovering feathered dinosaurs and other well-preserved fossils. They eventually logged at least 500 new species in the area. Good news for scientists, but even better news for an entire generation of farmers, dealers, shop owners, and even local officials who profit from a flourishing underground trade in priceless fossils...
...mastered humility as a counterattack against schadenfreude, then maybe he can work this charm thing into a career. And, if not, he can join a weird religion, drive drunk or leave his wife for another woman. You know, the things adults do to hang on to fame...