Word: mavens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...roller-coaster career curve is hardly unique. With the exception of a macho-arts maven like Steven Seagal, whose films routinely pick up an easy $40 million, nearly every modern star's box-office graph zigzags as wildly as an Axl Rose delta gram. Robert Redford and Clint Eastwood have dominated movies for a quarter-century, but their latest pictures have played in empty theaters. Robert De Niro, the most admired actor in films, went a decade after The Deer Hunter (1978) without a hit. Then he appeared in three commercial successes: GoodFellas, Awakenings, Backdraft. When Bruce Willis flexed...
...American Society of Newspaper Editors for presenting too much scandal and not enough substance in their coverage of American higher education. The Crimson, however, neglected to tell of an address, given later in the day, by Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz, in which the self-styled law maven took exception with Bok's remarks. The details, courtesy of the Boston Globe...
...MOZART MAVEN...
...describe this blithe, witty take on the most American of cities. Martin, who wrote the film, stars as a TV weatherman with a head for romance and a hard time finding it. Victoria Tennant, Marilu Henner and Sarah Jessica Parker offer the feminine options, and Brit TV maven Mick Jackson supplies the directorial dazzle. But this is a very personal Martin project -- the sweet-souled, nonstop-funny testament of a native Angeleno. Sly and soulful, it's the comedy that dares to be dippy...
...should come as no surprise that law professor and first amendment-maven Alan M. Dershowitz has titled his new book: "Chutzpah: Candid Reflections on Being Jewish in America." After all, Dershowitz is an outspoken supporter of many Jewish causes, and he is never short on chutzpah. Here, Dersh offers a definition of "chutzpah" as only...