Word: parlay
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...What's amazing is that Durkin very nearly didn't parlay "It" into opera. The daughter of a plumber from Perth's working-class Maddington, she first dreamed of a career in musical theater. But after failing her dance audition for the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Durkin was offered a place at the conservatorium instead. "Everyone's got this idea of what an opera singer is like," she says, "and for me it was always Wagner-huge, you know, the horns." For an art form looking to reinvent itself and draw new audiences, Durkin is a marketer...
...Harvard dining halls after a dare in just a hair under an hour. Dern’s fame—on and off campus—hasn’t quite gone to his head, though he does admit, in true reality TV star fashion, that he hopes to parlay this into a record contract or gig at a comedy club. And who knows after that? Guess we’ll all have to tune...
...region where "government is the economy," Hernandez said, Bonilla had been able to parlay his seat on the appropriations committee into a sizable campaign war chest and a powerful platform. The district stretches from El Paso east to San Antonio and south to the Mexican border, embracing several cities with large military bases and poor, rural counties where federal programs are vital. But once the power shifted away from Republicans in the House, in Hernandez's view, independent voters pragmatically voted for Rodriguez...
...nine-to-five.”The group’s focus is on the January launch party for now, but Matthews, whom Rotunno calls a “Jane of all trades,” is still keeping the future in mind, saying she hopes to parlay the magazine’s success into a career producing films.Regardless of the future, Matthews and her team are eager to get their work out to the people. As she recently proclaimed to her staff, “I will go and throw this magazine off the Empire State Building...
...visitors it attracts every day. But just before inking the deal with Google, the San Bruno, Calif.-based startup signed licensing and distribution deals with CBS, Universal and Sony. That, YouTube hopes, will help keep the upstart from suffering the painful demise that hit Napster, which couldn't successfully parlay its huge Web audience into a profitable, legal social network...