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He achieved his greatest popularity in the U. S. in this role, becoming the subject of many parodies, including " Alistair Cookie " in Sesame Street & No. 39's " Monsterpiece Theater " (" Alistair Cookie " was also the name of a clay animated cookie-headed spoof character created by Will Vinton as the host of a video trailer for The Little Prince and Friends ); Alistair Quince, from The Carol Burnett Show, introducing the " The Family " sketches, which eventually became Mama's Family ; and, arguably, Leonard Pinth-Garnell, in Saturday Night Live & No. 39's " Bad Conceptual Theatre ".
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This is true only if a very wide grip is used and only when the greatest possible stretch is achieved.
The greatest possible height that can be achieved is desirable for several reasons:
Two years later, Cukor achieved one of his greatest successes with My Fair Lady.
Initially a musician who achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, he has been called " the Netherlands ' greatest and only rock ' n ' roll star ," later in life he became a well-known painter.
Compared with many of cricket's greatest players, most of whom were specialists, Botham's averages seem fairly ordinary but this overlooks Botham's all-rounder status, which is rarely achieved at world-class level.
Kean achieved his greatest success in modern melodrama, and he was widely viewed as not prepossessing enough for the greatest Elizabethan roles.
The greatest popularity, however, was achieved by a 1957 comedy about a testy, ill-tempered character nicknamed Patate and a 1962 comic mystery L ' Idiote Idiot, best known in America as the basis for the play and film A Shot in the Dark.
After Mistral's Félibrige movement in the 19th century, Provençal achieved the greatest literary recognition and so became the most popular term for the Occitan language.
Romania achieved at that time its greatest territorial extent ( almost ), managing to unite all the historic Romanian lands.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the current record for the greatest distance achieved in hurling an object from a sling is:, using a long sling and a dart.
St. Helens reached its greatest height and achieved its highly symmetrical form by the time the Kalama eruptive cycle ended, about 1647.
“ For man, and especially the Proficient, is not the Couplement of Soul and body: the proof is that man can be disengaged from the body and disdain its nominal goods .” ( Enneads I. 4. 14 ) The human who has achieved happiness will not be bothered by sickness, discomfort, etc., as his focus is on the greatest things.
Plotinus disregards this claim, as the soul and true human do not sleep or even exist in time, nor will a living human who has achieved eudaimonia suddenly stop using its greatest, most authentic capacity just because of the body ’ s discomfort in the physical realm.
In September 2010 Williams switched on the Blackpool illuminations, stating that it was one of the greatest honours he'd ever achieved.
Han dynasty poetry was dominated by the fu genre, which achieved its greatest prominence during the reign of Emperor Wu.
Leptis achieved its greatest prominence beginning in 193, when a native son, Lucius Septimius Severus, became emperor.
He achieved his greatest influence and most lasting fame as a Senator.
In England the proportion is sometimes greater than 2: 1, while the greatest proportional difference achieved is at Cologne Cathedral with a ratio of 3. 6: 1.
The British made gains across the length of their front, the greatest being in the centre at Flers with an advance of, a feat achieved by the newest British division in France, the 41st Division, in their first action.
Forster achieved his greatest success with A Passage to India ( 1924 ).
Although the Movement 2 June achieved their greatest feat kidnapping Peter Lorenz, the extremist group ’ s most frequent activity was bombing.
That same year, at the Olympics, he achieved his greatest moment of fame.
The game achieved its greatest popularity in Paris by 1860 and in England a few years later.
His compatriot Arnold Azrikan achieved his greatest recognition as a dramatic tenor in Otello.
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Even when he had achieved popularity and his work was in demand, he still reworked models, often destroying them or setting them aside to be returned to years later.
Communist parties achieved a significant popularity in such nations as China, Greece, Iran, and the Republic of Mahabad.
In 1858, he published in The Plain Dealer ( Cleveland, Ohio ) the first of the " Artemus Ward " series, which, in a collected form, achieved great popularity in both America and England.
The ES-150 achieved some popularity, but suffered from unequal loudness across the six strings.
Johnny Fedora achieved popularity as a fictional agent of early Cold War espionage, but James Bond is the most commercially successful of the many spy characters created by intelligence insiders during that struggle.
When it was published in the United States by the University of Chicago in September of that year, it achieved greater popularity than in Britain.
The first independent version of Microsoft Windows, version 1. 0, released on 20 November 1985, achieved little popularity.
In the 2000s, a house subgenre known as electro house achieved popularity.
Keel included fifteen different Dowland pieces in his two sets of Elizabethan love songs published in 1909 and 1913, which achieved popularity in their day.
Both works showed little originality of thought ; they achieved wide popularity at the time of their publication, but have long been superseded.
The 1544 Greek edition formed the basis of the 1732 English translation by William Whiston, which achieved enormous popularity in the English-speaking world ( and which is currently available online for free download via Project Gutenberg ).
In late 1993, Meat Puppets achieved mainstream popularity when Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, who became a fan after seeing them open for Black Flag, invited Cris and Curt to join him on MTV Unplugged for acoustic performances of " Plateau ", " Oh Me " and " Lake of Fire " ( all originally from Meat Puppets II ).
However, it was not until the 19th century that the French word Renaissance achieved popularity in describing the self-conscious cultural movement based on revival of Roman models that began in the late-13th century.
These achieved significant levels of popularity.
The Rifleman ran for five seasons and achieved enduring popularity in syndication.
The Fighting Fantasy series achieved great popularity using this format.
According to David Bindman, The Ruins " achieved a popularity in England comparable to Rights of Man itself ".
The genre's popularity stagnated as games became more complicated and as arcades began to lose their audience to increasingly powerful home consoles near the end of the 1990s, though new franchises such as Dead or Alive, and the Soul series achieved success.
Also released in 1985, martial arts game The Way of the Exploding Fist achieved critical success and subsequently afforded the burgeoning genre further popularity.
Herzog's films have received considerable critical acclaim and achieved popularity on the art house circuit.
Follow ups, You've Come a Long Way, Baby and Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars as well as their associated singles including " The Rockafeller Skank ", " Praise You ", " Right Here Right Now " and " Weapon of Choice " helped to popularise the big beat genre which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s.
Both varieties are somewhat obscure today, and have never achieved anything near Syrah's fame or popularity, and there is no record of them ever having been cultivated at long distances from their present homes.
As a teenager, Marceau achieved popularity with her debut films La boum ( 1980 ) and La boum 2 ( 1982 ), receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress.
As a result, the band helped to popularise the Britpop genre and achieved mass popularity in the UK, aided by a chart battle with rival band Oasis in 1995 dubbed " The Battle of Britpop ".
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