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...psychometric world, developed abilities are distinct from school achievements. To understand the difference, consider a sports metaphor: if you learn to hit free throws 90% of the time, that's a stellar basketball achievement. But what if you're so out of shape that you can't run up and down the court? Then your achievement won't matter much in an actual game. Your level of physical fitness is a developed ability: it's both an innate skill that helps determine how well you play basketball and an outcome of playing lots of basketball. Similarly, the more you challenge...
Davis' uncanny impersonations and his fancy footwork are almost too perfect a metaphor for a man who was so desperate to fit in he affected an English accent whenever he was in London. Haygood's Sammy is a hall of mirrors with nothing behind them. You can't quite like him--there's not enough of him there to like--but you can't look away. The book ends with a heart-stopping photo of Sammy at age 5, blacked up, ready for his killer impression, his Al Jolson: a black kid impersonating a white guy in blackface...
...telling forces lesbian and gay Wyomingites to lie, or at least to omit details in everyday conversation. When Padgett decided to run for city council last year, he complied with the rules, sort of. To extend a metaphor, he resided in the closet but kept its door ajar. He was living in the same house as his partner, Jason Marsden, 31, and he gave that address as his campaign headquarters. Marsden, executive director of a conservation group, came out in a Casper Star-Tribune op-ed shortly after the Shepard murder, so everyone knew he was gay. "Honestly, if anyone...
...girls who look like Cameron Diaz. Uma Thurman is a different species. She's up there with Garbo and Dietrich in goddess territory." Like a 3-year-old, Tarantino demonstrates his affection through inventive cruelty. In Pulp Fiction he gave Thurman an adrenaline needle to the heart (a nice metaphor for love, Tarantino style). But that was a barrel of rose petals compared with what he cooked up for her in Kill Bill. "I get shot in the head, raped, kicked, beaten and sliced by samurai swords," says Thurman brightly. "The movie should have been called Kill...
DIED. JAY MORTON, 92, writer and artist for the Fleischer animation studios who, after deciding against using lightning as a metaphor for speed, coined Superman's famous cartoon introduction, "Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound"; in Charlotte...