Sentences with phrase «was a household name whose»

Some, such as Wilfred Owen and Stan Laurel, are household names whose exclusion from the main dictionary is a puzzle.

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The awards are named after Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931) whose inventions, new product development methods and innovative achievements literally changed the world, garnered him 1,093 U.S. patents, and made him a household name around the world.

The first is a global superstar whose battle against cancer and subsequent unbelievable accomplishments made him a household name and...

Here were persons whose names had been household words in my childhood — Gabelein, Rees, Henry, Grounds, Ramm.

But before that Sonny Liston sometimes had more than a little trouble defeating fighters whose names were hardly household words.

And then there was Tonya Harding, the Olympic figure skater whose connection to a 1994 attack on fellow skater Nancy Kerrigan ensured she'd become as much of a household name — and late - night comedy punchline — as O.J. or JonBenét, or Bill Clinton, for that matter.

This is the boogeyman whose very name is never mentioned in wizarding households for fear of conjuring him or his followers.

The $ 1.5 million production budget is surprising, considering it includes salaries for three household faces (whose names are also well - known by anyone versed in modern film).

Lucky comes to us from the most recent actor turned director John Carroll Lynch, whose name might not be household, but his face certainly is.

Terry Zwigoff's landmark 1995 film is an intimate documentary portrait of the underground artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative subject matter have made him a household name in popular American art.

Some of these so - called independent publishers, not to be confused with the current concept of indie publisher or indie author in terms of self - publishing, are long - standing publishing houses with major bestselling titles whose authors are household names.

The S&P 500 Index contains a long list of household names such as Microsoft, Wal - Mart, McDonald's and other companies whose products are used by Americans on a daily basis.

Here's one of Wall Street's most poorly - kept secrets: Investors can make good money with the stocks of smaller companies whose names aren't necessarily household words.

It is our hope that a century hence, in survey exhibitions of art of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the artworks of Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, Ronald Lockett, the quilters of Gee's Bend, and dozens of others will be shown alongside works by artists who are today household names — together with other artists whose names have yet to surface.

Other Grooms films include: The Big Sneeze (1962), a hand - drawn comic filmed by Rudy Burckhardt; Before an» After (1964), a sadomastic comedy that casts Mimi Gross as part dominatrix / part healthclub operator; Fat Feet (1966), a collaboration with Mimi Gross, Yvonne Andersen and Dominic Falcone that begins where Shoot the Moon ends; Tapping Toes (1968 - 70), which uses his first sculpto - pictorama City of Chicago (1967) as its set; Conquest of Libya by Italy (1912 - 13)(1972 - 3), a black and white animation that spoofs that era's newsreels; Hippodrome Hardware (1973), based on Grooms» 1972 live performance of the same name, whose main character Mr. Ruckus is played by Grooms; Grow Great (1974), a live - action short that features Mimi Gross as the household consumer; Little Red Riding Hood (1978), which features his daughter Saskia; and Man Walking Up (1984).

There are very few contemporary sculptors who could be called household names, but this is about as close as it gets: Mathew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Maurizio Cattelan, Subodh Gupta, Anish Kapoor, Jim Lambie (whose piece is the show's only work at Laguna Gloria), Ron Mueck, Kiki Smith, among others with similar gravitas.

Every household's set of samples yielded at least one of the 30 new species, prompting the researchers to name each species after the resident in whose back yard the species was found....

The claimants were large well - known companies, whose household names had been incorporated into domain names registered by the defendants, which the defendants then offered for sale.