Word: giftedness
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The Saturday Night Live Wires. Saturday Night Live and SCTV unearthed a generation of gifted farceurs and mimics. The farceurs displayed their oversize personalities on TV, then did more of the same in Hollywood. John Candy, for instance, plays the jolly lug, coping with crisis by wearing it down. In...
James was gifted -- and fortunate. "I been tempted," he says of the fast money that street life promises. "But people always put me on the right track, or something bad always happens every time I get tempted, and it turns me the other way."
To be young, gifted and black in America today is to live poised on a cruelly honed knife-edge. There are doubtless more opportunities than ever for bright, ambitious kids to escape the ghetto. But the chances of being wasted by random violence have also increased. In his remarkable debut...
In some ways, there isn't. There's no law of nature that says only gifted speakers can be good statesmen. Thomas Jefferson, for instance, never overcame his stuttering. Ghostwriting, then, could be seen as just a way of leveling the political playing field--allowing voters to choose on the...
"Sue is an incredibly gifted athlete with a great attitude," Soccer Coach Tim Wheaton says. "She works hard all of the time and approaches the game with determination and a sense of humor."