Later, Trumbauer's reputation fell into the shadows for several reasons.
It's hard to explain, nonetheless, the void of silence that Schiele and his reputation fell into, in the decades after his death, aged just 28, in 1918.
"I realized it will be five years since the last thing, and I remember thinking: Stone Roses," he said, referring to the British band whose reputation fell from, roughly, messiah to unwanted house guest in the five years between its first album (in 1989) and its second.
Goldman Sach's reputation fell to -32 on the index immediately after former employee Greg Smith published a scathing op-ed in the The New York Times resigning from the firm.
Impersonating candidates on Facebook or on e-mail to damage their reputations falls on the opposite side of the ethical spectrum, candidates and strategists agree: it is wrong and possibly illegal.
The event was the scene of one of the first great propaganda battles in the "cultural Cold War," as the historian Frances Stonor Saunders calls it, and more than a few artistic reputations fell victim to the clash of ideologies.
The 506 years since Sandro Botticelli's death have seen the Italian high renaissance artist's reputation fall, rise, and rise further.
"I wanted to unravel the puzzle of how someone could be literally equated with Washington and Lincoln in almost every memorial -- how could and why did his reputation fall so low?" Ms. Waugh said in an interview.
Unfortunately, however, the Osprey also has a reputation for falling out of the sky.
Money, love and reputation are falling from him like leaves in autumn.
