for life, for dear life, star-studded, lifetime achievement award,

"Baby Doc" Duvalier: Haiti's "president for life" fled for France; five years later on the same date, the nation swore in its first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide (1986)


Daily Highlights Thursday, August 2, 2007
Spotlight

Peter O'Toole Source

When you think of Peter O'Toole, you may think first of Lawrence of Arabia, Lion in Winter or My Favorite Year. O'Toole garnered Oscar nominations for his role in each of those films plus several others. Now his voice-acting is getting the same accolades — he's winning raves as the nasty food critic in Pixar's Ratatouille. O'Toole has the dubious distinction of having been nominated for more Oscars without winning (8) than any other actor. In 2003, the Academy recognized him with a lifetime achievement award. 終生成就獎Today is O'Toole's 75th birthday.

The German news magazine Stern awarded a lifetime achievement award to the 87-year-old literary critic at its annual gala event held for some 1,200 prominent guests at the Hamburg Schauspielhaus theatre on Friday.


11.05. - Concert Hour: Deutsche Welle Festival Concert

A star-studded concert awaits you, with names that, if you enjoy classical
music, you’ve doubtless heard many times. Guests of the Beethoven
festival in Bonn: the venerable Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, led
by its permanent lifetime conductor Sir Neville Marriner.

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=evydw3I44va89pI1






MOSCOW--Film director Takeshi Kitano won a lifetime achievement award at the Moscow International Film Festival that opened Thursday for his contribution to movies. Kitano, 61, is also known as comedian Beat Takeshi.(IHT/Asahi: June 21,2008)
北野武（1947年1月18日－），出生於東京都足立區。漫才（相聲）演員（以色情相聲演員出道）、電影導演、演員、電視節目主持人、大學教授。父親名為北野菊次郎（主演電影《菊次郎的夏天》與其父有關），除了電影導演的工作外，大多使用藝名彼得武（英名：Beat Takeshi，亦以Two Beat的名義在其他舞臺活動）








lifetime Show phonetics畢生
noun [C usually singular] ━━ n., a. 生涯; （器具などの）寿命; 終生の, 生涯の.
the period of time during which someone lives or something exists:
We'll see a tremendous lot of technological changes during/in our lifetime.
Winners of the competition will receive the holiday of a lifetime (= the best holiday they will ever have).
I've only been working here two days, but it seems like a lifetime.
A watch of this quality should last a lifetime.
Enter our competition and this once-in-a-lifetime experience could be yours!
Marriage is no longer always seen as a lifetime commitment.
You could win a lifetime's supply of toothpaste.
achieve Show phonetics
verb [T]
to succeed in finishing something or reaching an aim, especially after a lot of work or effort:
The government's training policy, he claimed, was achieving its objectives.
She finally achieved her ambition to visit South America.
I've been working all day, but I feel as if I've achieved nothing.
See also underachieve.

achievable Show phonetics
adjective
describes a task, etc. that is possible to achieve:
Before you set your targets, make sure that they are achievable.

achiever Show phonetics
noun
1 high/low achiever a person who achieves more/less than the average:
Not enough attention is given to the low achievers in the class.

2 under achiever someone who is less successful than they should be at school or at work

achievement Show phonetics
noun [C or U]
something very good and difficult that you have succeeded in doing:
Whichever way you look at it, an Olympic silver medal is a remarkable achievement for one so young.
The Tale of Genji has been described as the greatest achievement of Japanese literature.
It gives you a sense of achievement if you actually make it to the end of a very long book.
star-studded
adjective INFORMAL
If a group of people, a film or a show is star-studded there are lots of famous people in it.


for life
for the whole of a person's life:
I believe marriage is for life.

for dear life
If you do something for dear life, you do it with as much effort as possible, usually to avoid danger:
As the ship began to tilt, we clung on for dear life.