Sentence examples for achieving notoriety from inspiring English sources

As a teenager he left home to perform rhythm and blues in medicine shows and nightclubs, where he took the name "Little Richard," achieving notoriety for high-energy onstage antics.

a7eb02bd-fd3b-40da-b4d5-a848e0deaccb After achieving notoriety as a nightmarishly campy, $8 million flop on Broadway in 1988, the musical "Carrie" rose from the ashes as a fervently earnest, $1.5 million revival Off Broadway this winter, and ran for 80 performances, or about four times as many as the original production had.

But if the film doesn't measure up as a piece of historical scholarship, it does manage to be a rather touching exploration of the troupe's life cycle: achieving notoriety, then being torn apart by fame, then being destroyed by forces beyond its control.

In spite of these performances, Farmer had difficulty achieving notoriety and, on an advice of Le Page, she extended the promotion of the song to include interviews in magazines for teenagers.

A graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatory, Prokofiev initially made his name as an iconoclastic composer-pianist, achieving notoriety with a series of ferociously dissonant and virtuosic works for his instrument, including his first two piano concertos.

These targeted locations and innocent people are the sincere focus of aggression in the contorted thinking of someone whose anger and belief system leads them to settle a score and reaffirm their self worth by achieving notoriety through violence.

It had to be something extreme, to achieve notoriety.

Flooz achieved notoriety through an advertising campaign featuring Whoopi Goldberg that began in September 1999.

Basil Constantine achieved notoriety by attaching cadaver parts to his canvases.

He also achieved notoriety as a playboy and a reclusive eccentric.

Orton and Halliwell achieved notoriety through the sensational arc of their inseparable lives and deaths.