Word: giftedness
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But don't feel too sorry for him. Norman is gifted, rich and a handsome devil besides. He has won 53 professional tournaments and holds the all-time record for single-year winnings at $1.3 million. On the course, the graceful Australian with the preternaturally blond hair first captures attention...
Whatever the venue, desserts ring up rich profits for purveyors. Because they are based on relatively inexpensive ingredients that can be prepared in advance, there is a higher profit percentage in desserts than in most appetizers or entrees. "Waiters also like to offer pastries because that raises the check and...
Madame Sousatzka (Shirley MacLaine) teaches piano and shares a London house with a few other distressed gentlefolk. They might all be sitting on a verandah above the Ganges a half-century ago, waiting for the subcontinental jewel to fall out of the imperial crown. But now Madame has taken on...
The author finds the East bloc boring ("Imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office") and the night life especially disappointing. One club features a stripper doing the "Dance of a Couple of Veils." In the even less developed parts of the world, O'Rourke predicts a...
In 1983 the programmers' code of honor was broken. The culprit was Ken Thompson, the gifted software engineer who wrote the original version of Unix, the computer operating system now coming into widespread use. Thompson was being presented the Association for Computing Machinery's prestigious A.M. Turing Award when he...