11.   Larkin is still amazed by his sudden celebrity abroad.

12.   October is nail-biting season for many senior scientists who hope to be awoken by an early morning call from Stockholm bearing news of their sudden celebrity.

13.   Sudden celebrity was a staple of screwball comedy.

14.   The shy Vermonter who usually avoids the limelight was a sudden celebrity who posed for photos with Time Magazine, reportedly for a cover story.

15.   These young, unsophisticated players emerge as sudden celebrities.

16.   Until the Nobel Prize turned him into a sudden celebrity, his visits here passed unnoticed.

17.   Wright has relished his sudden celebrity.