Word: giftedness
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As the week unfolded, John Paul was greeted by exuberant well-wishers ?among them 5,000 Polish pilgrims allowed temporary visas out of their Communist-ruled homeland. With a gifted preacher's polished delivery, the Pope addressed the throngs fluently in five languages, then plunged into their midst to...
The gifted German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder hired Playwright Tom Stoppard, author of that Nabokovian whimsy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, to adapt Despair for the screen. Except for one grave lapse, he has done so effectively and with suitable reverence, and Fassbinder has assembled a first-rate cast.
What follows at this not-so-grand hotel covers most of the seven deadly sins. Despite its emphasis on tight plotting and revolving guests, the series does not scrimp on atmosphere or the incidental grace notes that so enriched Upstairs, Downstairs. The supply of gifted British character actors seems as...
"Jimmy's improved a helluva lot this year," midfielder Michael Smith, the most talented player on the Crimson, said after yesterday's game. "He may not be the most gifted player on the team in terms of skills, but the job back there is just destroying, and he's good...
This paradox is always present in any survey of the British university system. Superficially, it seems more elitist and restrictive than the American--but is it, in fact, when the vast majority of those who get to college not only have all their tuition fees paid by the government, but...