Word: giftedness
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Whip smart and witty, eccentric and strikingly beautiful, had she been born in another age, Alice Roosevelt Longworth might have ended up a scientist, a writer or a particularly brutal judge on American Idol. Instead, she is remembered as one of the capital's most successful hostesses, a gifted gossip...
The family began as--and remains--a survival unit, with parents agreeing to care for the kids, the kids agreeing to carry on the genes and all of them doing what they can to make sure no one gets eaten by wolves. But the resources that make this possible are...
Every artistic movement needs a Romantic hero?a precociously gifted individual who lives by different rules, paints or writes or sculpts outrageously well, and dies at a shockingly young age. Sher-Gil is modern Indian art's great Romantic. Part Indian and part Hungarian, beautiful and unconventional, she painted Brahmacharis...
DIED. Vincent Sherman, 99, gifted studio-era director and lothario famous less for his films than for the luminous, gritty performances he elicited, especially from women; in Los Angeles. Known for his affairs with Rita Hayworth and Bette Davis, he juggled the egos of rivals Davis and Miriam Hopkins in...
The first annual Paul Gilligan Memorial Road Race drew more than 300 people to the banks of the Charles River on May 6 to celebrate the “golden boy” whose laugh still echoes through Eliot House and the University’s biology labs nearly one...