Word: fame
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...their unlawful activities, but because they dared to succeed. He implied that we may seemingly worship success in this country, but that we also deplore and envy it - since most of us never attain it. But that was then, and this is now. Our love affair with wealth and fame is now untrammeled by doubts. It is our big good thing, and eventually Crowe's character, like the rest of us, must surrender to its cheerful demands. That makes American Gangster, which is rather leisurely paced but richly detailed in the way it pursues the minutiae of conspicuous criminality...
Moreno-Ocampo gained fame in Argentina in the '80s for prosecuting human-rights abuses committed by the country's ruling military junta. In 2003 he signed on for a nine-year term as prosecutor at the ICC. Unlike earlier tribunals--such as U.N.-sponsored courts for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone--the ICC is able to prosecute atrocities in conflicts that are still raging...
...about Richard Burton and Ed Sullivan, choruses of Camelot and a few empty bottles. More Goulet dinners followed, each one unforgettable in its own way. Robert was famous for almost 50 years. He got the best tables and told great stories about people long forgotten. He was aware that fame as a singer and cameo maker was an odd thing but one that could thrill people nonetheless. Once I saw him sneak up behind a tourist playing slots. When she turned around, he raised a handsome eyebrow and growled, 'Goulet!' She almost keeled over. Then she hugged...
...can’t just treat “consent” as black and white. This argument has the nuance the Crimson lacks. Take the case of MacKinnon’s former client, Linda Boreman (better known as Linda Lovelace), of “Deep Throat” fame. Here is a woman who was beaten, raped, and prostituted by her husband, who actually held a gun to her head to ensure she performed the acts seen in that movie. This is not what consent looks like. Or take a more familiar example – a young girl...
...Museum in Tokyo, gained international attention in the 1990s with his playful renditions of cigarette icon Joe Camel dressed as the Mona Lisa and other Western art figures. At the 1999 Venice Biennale, he exhibited fake magazine covers adorned with his face - a cheeky commentary on the overseas fame so many Asian artists crave. Now he produces soft-focus landscapes and chinoiserie portraits. Yet even though Zhou, 41, is a technically skilled graduate of Shanghai's top fine-art institute, he doesn't paint the artworks sold under his name. Instead, a bevy of assistants do the painting...