So even in great restaurants, chefs are famous for cutting corners, precooking and inventing shortcuts.
A self-described "half-pint," Skelton nevertheless became a fearless stunt pilot, famous for cutting through a ribbon tied between two poles with her plane's propeller — while flying upside down.
The Belgian colonists were famous for cutting off hands and feet, still a common rebel tactic – Jeanne was forced to watch as her uncle's hands and feet were cut off before he was murdered.
Unlike Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, who has called leaders of his state's teachers' union "political thugs," or Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, now nationally famous for cutting bargaining rights for most government workers, Mr. Bloomberg has, for now, aimed his public criticism elsewhere.
Pop was famous for cutting himself and smearing himself with peanut butter; Yow, at the one Scratch Acid show I saw, in the eighties, pulled what looked like peanut butter, or worse, out of his pants and threw it into the audience.
He also brought in Ignacio Lopez from Opel, a subsidiary of General Motors, who was famous for cutting costs by squeezing suppliers though Mr Lopez later had to leave on suspicion of having lifted trade secrets from GM.VW is no ordinary company.
