Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arte, which was founded in 1944. As The Art of Haiti webpage explains, the founders of the Centre d'Arte" were completely artistically untrained....Their subjects were most often what they perceived in their everyday mundane existence....They managed to integrate what they saw, felt and believed and express it with intensity of emotion and a childlike innocence...
These days he has plenty of both. In the past 10 years, as international banks have struggled with competitors from American Express to America Online, McColl has engineered a kind of banking miracle in homey Charlotte, a deus ex machina where the machina is his very own NationsBank automated-teller machines, and the deus wears cowboy boots. Last week McColl announced the boldest deal yet: a plan to merge NationsBank with California-based BankAmerica to create a golden Godzilla with deposits of $346 billion. On Wall Street, where financial stocks have sizzled this year, the marriage was greeted with huge...
Still, as critics emphasize and Hamer himself acknowledges, genes alone do not control the chemistry of the brain. Ultimately, it is the environment that determines how these genes will express themselves. In another setting, for example, it is easy to imagine that Hamer might have become a high school dropout rather than a scientist. For while he grew up in an affluent household in Montclair, N.J., he was hardly a model child. "Today," he chuckles, "I probably would have been diagnosed with attention-deficit disorder and put on Ritalin." In his senior year in high school, though, Hamer discovered organic...
...probation restrictions. Oliver Stone, Barry Levinson and Dustin Hoffman have all shown interest in future collaborations. "It's not just because he has great talent, which is undeniable," says Jodie Foster, who directed Downey in Home for the Holidays. "People who know him really feel for him." Others express similar support. "He's one of the most remarkable actors of his generation," declares In Dreams director Neil Jordan, who last saw Downey when he was released briefly to re-record some dialogue for the film. "He's hardworking, consistently concentrated. My perception is that the more he works in rewarding...
...middle class in Brooklyn and started his career on Wall Street in the 1950s as a messenger for Bear Stearns Co. By the early 1960s he had raised $200,000, and 15 acquisitions later he built Shearson Loeb Rhoades into the nation's second largest brokerage. In 1981 American Express bought Shearson, and Weill tagged along, hoping one day to succeed CEO James Robinson. He preceded him instead, leaving in 1985; Robinson was bounced...