Fame, or more often infamy, is short-lived and the industry prefers it that way.
And the important question it raises is whether accidental infamy is a good thing.
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But half his fame is infamy: he is the only major presidential candidate with a negative approval rating.
To give people the power to share their fails and infamy and make the world more hilarious and funny.
In fact, it's terribly ironic that Bonds and Clemens, who share so very little, will forever be joined in infamy.
He listened to a catalogue of infamy dubious wheat contracts and bank loans, favouritism to a business friend alleged by Miss Bhutto.
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February 2, 1913, when New Mexico and Wyoming put the amendment over the top, is another day which should live in infamy.
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Is it perfectly fine to launch your career ensconced in NSFW infamy?
The presence of Sean Parker of Napster infamy conjures associations with the lone rebel, hacking the system and sticking it to the man.
Together they make music and infamy, compounding their barbarity with poetry.
Neville Chamberlain first found infamy as the Conservative chancellor who slapped a tax on the divvy, despite the millions of signatures on a National Co-operative Petition.
Even if it does, that should not obscure the fact that Mr bin Laden's infamy in the West is losing its power to inspire his own people.
Forty years ago, Dr Beeching, then chairman of the railways, axed some of them, and the infamy of his name lives on in the shires to this day.
For telecoms, the glamour and infamy were followed by mediocrity.
Now it is up to us to do what we can in the time available to prepare for, and if possible to stave off, the next Day of Infamy.
The hall of infamy is filled with costly failures like Minitel (a dead-end French national communications network long since overtaken by the internet) and British Leyland (a nationalised car company).
And at worst, the 2011-12 NBA season could join the 2004-05 NHL season in infamy as the only 2 North American sports seasons completed erased by a work stoppage.
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The most iconic example is the Coca-Cola Company's attempt to reformulate the world's most popular soft drink on April 23, 1985 - "a day that will live in marketing infamy", according to the company's website.
One of the reasons for Mexico City's infamy was its diligence in recording its own failings: the government keeps hourly readings of eight pollutants across 34 weather stations, some going back to 1986.
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From the kitchen-sink ordinariness of the working-class Belfast upbringing towards stardom on the pitch at United, renown as a Sixties socialite and eventually the infamy of alcoholism with the despair and trouble it brought.
We certainly might see a Chinese car develop some brand recognition overseas within a few years, although whether that would be a Yugo-type infamy or a more respectable Volvo-type reputation remains to be seen.
It is the difference between tragedy and infamy.
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Inexplicably sporting a green Edmonton Oilers cap, the rapper announced his support for Clinton--a candidate who has gained perhaps as much infamy for her censorship campaigns as the rapper has for his glorification of violence and misogyny.
For the moment, fan attention is on the road to the Super Bowl on the perennially favored New England Patriots, the defending champion New Orleans Saints, the resurgent Philadelphia Eagles and their quarterback, Michael Vick, of dog-fighting infamy.
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