fame
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A different perspective on sudden fame is found in his remark to a reporter that many young people “are involved in the stories in a way that I am not.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
The greatest damper of Morris’s fame, however, may be that he simply did not care enough about it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
He effectively filled the boots of William Shatner's Captain Kirk from the original show, and the role became Stewart's path to fame and fortune.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
Throughout Goblikon’s rise to fame, Rispoli has remained his ghostwriter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
If there were times when Elizebeth enjoyed her growing fame, she also knew it had its downsides.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
The 8,400-square-foot home was designed in 1949 by John “Jack” Elgin Woolf, a famed midcentury-era architect of the Hollywood stars.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
San Clemente is a quintessential California beach town with bluff-top enclaves offering panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean and famed beaches boasting some of the best surf breaks in the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
A team has travelled to Nikumaroro Island, part of Kiribati, hoping to solve the mystery of the famed aviator's disappearance by investigating the so-called Taraia Object, spotted in the atoll's lagoon in aerial imagery.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Firefighters were also busy battling the Bryson fire, which broke out overnight on the outskirts of the famed Malibu beach community.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
He would show her the famed tree that had a poet buried beneath it.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
In the 1930s, drought and bad faming methods destroyed 100 million acres of farmland around Oklahoma and forced families to leave, many for California.
From Time ● Apr. 10, 2015
In Strype's edition, 1720, he says, concerning this gate, "Leaving out the fable thereof faming it to be builded by King Belin, a Briton, long before the incarnation of Christ."
From Notes and Queries, Number 11, January 12, 1850 by Various
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Academy Awards, List 5
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