Word: giftedness
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Taylor is 68. Poor Monroe capitulated at 36. Judy Garland wore herself out and died at 47. Two sex goddesses and a gifted waif, all of them addictive messes at one time or another. Taylor had eight marriages--the doggedly repeated triumph of hope over experience. The great beauty went...
It seemed a quixotic notion: "Hey, guys, let's make a movie in a genre that went out of fashion when The Sound of Music came in; that will cost $100 million, require arduous location shooting and elaborate computer effects; whose director hasn't made a film grossing even $50...
But politicians, burbling over how to educate the underclass, would do well to stop by Room 56 this week, as Rafe Esquith's fifth-grade class mounts its annual Shakespeare play. There are few costumes--mainly T shirts inscribed with an image of the Bard under the words WILL POWER...
"Professor Sandler is a remarkably gifted teacher who enriches the experience of Russian literature with a judicious application of various modern theoretical approaches," wrote Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology and department chair Michael S. Flier in an e-mail message.
Gilman, 35, an Alabama native who now lives in Chicago, has been quietly assembling an impressive body of work. Spinning into Butter, about the ramifications of a racist incident on a college campus, had a successful run at the Goodman last year. Her earlier play The Glory of Living, a...