Word: giftedness
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The center of Sofia brims with Old Country attractions--the changing of the presidential guard, streets made from yellow bricks gifted by Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I--but the city of 1.2 million is compact enough for visitors to venture to locales off the beaten track, like the communist monument...
I was at that glittering opening night of The First Emperor as a movie-critic. The title role is sung by Placido Domingo, who in the 80s displayed his celebrated tenor in movie versions of Cavallieri Rusticana, Pagliacci, La Traviata and Otello, all directed by Franco Zeffirelli. But I was...
A theory once prevailed that if the top 100 male tennis players were banned from touching a racquet for a month, the great American baseliner Andre Agassi would have been most likely to win the first tournament played thereafter. The reasoning was that Agassi, who retired last year, was the...
“She is a gifted administrator and one of the great leaders of higher education of this generation,” says Linda K. Lorimer, who has served as Yale’s secretary—one of its seven principal officers—since 1993. ?...
That--rather than the itch of some gifted writer or director to make an original statement--is the reason these movies get made. Audiences don't demand art here, just terrific entertainment. The first Shrek served that up in style; so did the first Pirates. But the second and third...