His popularity ( or notoriety ) was verified by the fact that his name turned out to be the strongest brand of the year.

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 and his first two piano concertos.

The China O ' Brien films have a limited cult film status but have gained notoriety in the late 1990s because a then-unheard of singer / songwriter Tori Amos ( then going by her birth name Ellen Amos ) recorded a song, " Distant Storm ," which can only be heard by viewing the original film.

The fiesta takes its name from the tamale and alludes to the town's local notoriety for a spicier version of the Mississippi Delta style boiled tamale.

) The U. S. Post Office renamed the town Robeysville, due to the notoriety of the Surratt name.

Herostratus ' name lived on in classical literature and has passed into modern languages as a term for someone who commits a criminal act in order to bask in the resultant notoriety.

During the Salvadoran civil war, death squads ( known in Spanish by the name of Escuadrón de la Muerte, " Squadron of Death ") achieved notoriety when far-right vigilantes assassinated Archbishop Óscar Romero for his social activism in March 1980.

McCarty ( or Bonney, the name he used at the height of his notoriety ) was 5 ' 8 " ( 173 cm ) tall with blue eyes, a smooth complexion, and prominent front teeth.

Since Cicotte had a much more successful career – and also gained later notoriety as one of the players implicated in the Black Sox scandal – his name is the one most often associated with the invention of the pitch today.

The town's unusual name has brought it a certain amount of notoriety in the same vein as Fucking, Austria ; Anus, France ; Nob End, England ; Effin, Ireland ; Twatt, Scotland ; Bald Knob, Arkansas ; and Wankum, Germany.

Regardless of the origin, the name has brought the town of Dildo a measure of notoriety.

The Speedo sponsored Australian men ’ s swim team took home eight gold medals and brought a new worldwide level of notoriety to the company which debuted the swim briefs that would become synonymous with the brand name.

Brossolette's fame was helped by his media notoriety before the war on Radio-PTT and on wartime BBC emissions, his networking role that made his name or codename known and remembered over almost every Resistance member in northern France and by flattering early accounts of BCRA's chief Passy in his memoirs.

Once the car gained notoriety, Enzo Ferrari filed a lawsuit demanding that McBurnie and others cease producing and selling Ferrari replicas, because they were taking his name and styling.

The name " Tiger Bay " was applied in popular literature and slang ( especially that of sailors ) to any dock or seaside neighborhood which shared a similar notoriety for danger.

While he gained underground notoriety for his work with Pussy Galore, Hagerty reportedly viewed it as a job and intended to pursue his own artistic vision with his girlfriend, Jennifer Herrema, under the name Royal Trux.

In 2000 after his breakout NFL season, the Arena Football League used his new notoriety for the name of their first widely available video game, Kurt Warner's Arena Football Unleashed.

The coolness with which Abershaw met his death prolonged his notoriety, and his name was commonly used as a synonym for a daring thief in the early years of the nineteenth century.

Soon after his first successful concerts in France, he started to use the pseudonym Niemen instead of his real name, gaining wider notoriety in Poland and making it easier to pronounce by foreigners ( Niemen is a Polish pronunciation of the Neman River and this way he wanted to mark his birth country ).

The name connection with Cunedda makes it tempting to speculate that the great Cunedda himself may have been buried at this site ; a site whose Iron Age notoriety may well have maintained a cultural importance well after the end of the Roman period and into the Dark Ages.

Their story attracted national attention, giving the home some notoriety as well as its exotic name: A Life Magazine story ( January 26, 1948 ) used the headline " Life Visits a Mystery Castle: A Young Girl Rules Over the Strange Secrets of a Fairy Tale Dream House in the Arizona Desert.

Sait Faik Abasıyanık also has characterized as " a poet atteined to both fair name and notoriety in time ; the again be amitted, the denied again, the won regocnition from time to time, the made fun of he from time to time, the most emphatical " him by calling attention to this aspect of Orhan Veli.

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But this co-operation soon came to an end ; for, being attacked in pamphlets as one of Mirabeau's writers, he felt hurt at the notoriety thus given to his name in connection with a man occupying Mirabeau's peculiar position, and returned to England in 1791.

Soon the notoriety of Bimba's Capoeira proved to be a problem to traditional capoeiristas, who were gradually losing visibility and were still distrusted by society.

Some of the council owned properties have been sold off and several traditional working men's pubs have become more fashionable bistros, although much local authority housing ( including estates of considerable notoriety such as the Winstanley and the Surrey Lane estates ) and land in industrial use still remains.

' He was to gain much notoriety from his repudiation of traditional religion, and was frequently condemned by religious thinkers for allegedly advocating atheism and materialism.

Pop-punk acts such as Our Life Story and Singled Out, who fuse hardcore with traditional pop-punk have gained notoriety as of late, being published in Alternative Press magazine.

Will was originally introduced as the manager of the Horton Wilde campaign to represent California's 47th congressional district, and he gained notoriety for forcing a run-off election despite Wilde's death, Sam Seaborn's arriving to tell him to shut down the " embarrassing campaign " ( Will ignored him and Sam was won over by his efforts ), and the seat's traditional status as safely Republican in the conservative Orange County area.

Alternate paint schemes truly gained notoriety in 1995, when Dale Earnhardt appeared at The Winston with a silver car ( in tribute to Winston's silver anniversary ) instead of his traditional black car.

He gained acclaim for his exuberant and innovative drumming style, and notoriety for his eccentric and often self-destructive behaviour, earning him the nickname " Moon the Loon ".

Clemente ’ s Athletic acquired notoriety for its aggressive style of play, personified by hard man Goikoetxea.

A heart attack in 1970 slowed Newton's output, but his notoriety continued to increase, most notably with his 1980 " Big Nudes " series, which marked the pinnacle of his erotic-urban style, underpinned with excellent technical skills.

Votomatic style systems and punched cards received considerable notoriety in 2000 when their uneven use in Florida was alleged to have affected the outcome of the U. S. presidential election.

Suffocation, one of the best known bands to emerge from this scene, earned a good deal of notoriety for their brutal, complex, and uncompromising style.

Also in Mexico, between April and June in Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, at Las Escolleras beach, takes place the tournament called Torneo Internacional de Bodysurf Las Escolleras, where the competitors challenge the powerful pipes in this famous waves of world-class, with the notoriety that this two-day event is not charged subscription to the competition, but it rewards the first four places of the category, with trophies and gifts from sponsors and make a big party with live music at the beach as the pure style of Sharing The Aloha Spirit.

The notoriety of DJs on the northern soul scene was enhanced by the possession of rare records, but exclusivity was not enough on its own, and the records had to conform to a certain musical style and gain acceptance on the dance floor.

His unorthodox non-message philosophy and the often uncompromising, direct style of its presentation, generated a measure of notoriety and sharply-divided opinions.

He gained notoriety for his playing style.

Son of the Italian immigrant flutist Alferio Mignone, Francisco was already making his mark upon the musical world of Brazil by the time he was 10 years old, gaining notoriety around his district playing in the choro style.

While at university, Shanahan was the editor of the ANU Student Newspaper, Woroni, where he gained notoriety among the University's political groups ( and debating society ) for his strongly satirical writing style.

Its musical score ( by Dave Brubeck ) has in many quarters been heavily criticised as totally inappropriate for this style of mystery and has given the film a certain notoriety.

The station was executed in the Norman Castellated architectural style by architect Solon S. Beman, who had gained notoriety as the designer of the Pullman company neighborhood.