Word: impresario
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...more to do with Spain's emergence as the pacesetter in international haute cuisine than Ferran Adria, a stocky, friendly and constantly moving impresario of gastronomic innovation. His restaurant, El Bulli, which is located up a winding road near the town of Rosas on Catalonia's Costa Brava, gets 1 million reservation requests a year, only about 8,000 of which he can honor. Adria puts no truck in old standbys. His constantly shifting degustation menu always aims to trump itself. A meal lasts for hours, alternating between sweet and savory, hot and cold, familiar and otherworldly: fried rabbit ears...
Julian Marley, son of reggae impresario Bob, tours with his Uprising Band. He is one of the many Marley’s—including Ziggy, Stephen and Damian—attempting to use his talent and family name to get some recognition in the notoriously cutthroat reggae community. In order to show “dread cred” as it’s known in reggae circles, Julian has spent years learning under Aston “Family Man” Barrett, Earl “Wire” Lindo, Tyrone Downie and Earl “Chinna?...
...Olympics, Holm spent an afternoon shooting dice with sportswriters and then stayed up late for "a few glasses of champagne." Her expulsion from the team made headlines, and Holm ended up writing about the Games for a wire service. She then acted in Tarzan's Revenge and performed in impresario-husband Billy Rose's Aquacade at the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, a spectacle that landed her on the cover of TIME. Holm retained her freewheeling spirit into old age; she told Bill Clinton during a 1999 White House visit: "Mr. President, you're really a good-looking...
...that balancing act is awkward, Caperton relishes another part of his job--his nascent role as the nation's curricular impresario. "I didn't want to run a testing company," he says. "But when I saw what the College Board was and, more important, what it could be, I saw the power to do much more than they were doing in the past to improve education." Under his watch, the board is issuing quite specific recommendations about what schools should teach--for instance, math lessons should include radical equations (such as 5 (square root...
DIED. SAM PHILLIPS, 80, prime impresario of rock 'n' roll; of respiratory failure, in Memphis, Tenn. In the '50s Phillips' Sun Records in Memphis was the home of raw genius, both black (Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King) and redneck (Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and that holy hellion of rockabilly, Jerry Lee Lewis). One day an 18-year-old Elvis Presley went to Sun's studio to record two songs for his mother and was soon vamping on the Arthur Crudup tune That's All Right. Phillips legendarily remarked, "That's a pop song, just 'bout...