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Russell Crowe is a strong person and a great actor because of his intensity and savant-like dedication to his characters [Nov. 10]. It was refreshing to read an article about him that wasn't sensationalized. The quirks of temperament in his personality are what you find in most people who are as dedicated to their work as he is. While I like finding out a little bit about the person behind the actor, I have to agree with his statement about his privacy that you quoted: "I'll make movies, and you go to the cinema...
...says Weir. "Just when you think you see him as a kind of an Aussie simple man--you know, what you see is what you get--there'll be a flash from those eyes, he'll say something penetrating or precise, and you'll remember that he is a savant of some kind. It reminds you how little you know...
...Linguistics 80, “Dialects of English,” having just decided to quit her athletics team to allow herself more time to pursue other activities—like drinking at the Owl. You might find a dud, admitted to Harvard because he is an idiot savant of mathematics, who has decided to drop math and take up writing terrible poetry. Or you might find a dud who just wasn’t especially talented to begin with, but somehow looked good “on paper,” or, “on the common application...
...that the stock market is the most important economic indicator in the United States." But Lizza skips by the irony behind the embrace. When Bush took office, he was so disdainful of investment bankers and the financial markets that he rejected the suggestion that he include a Wall Street savant, similar to Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, on his economic team. Instead he made Alcoa CEO Paul O'Neill, who shared Bush's negative views of Wall Street, his secretary of the Treasury. As his national economic adviser Bush chose Larry Lindsey, an economist and former Fed governor...
...Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock" would be prime Presley calling cards, took over as producers. Stoller: "We thought we were the only white kids who knew anything about the blues," Stoller told Guralnick, "but he knew all kinds of stuff." Leiber added: "We thought he was like an idiot savant, but he listened a lot. He knew all of our records. ... And he was a workhorse in the studio - he didn't pull any diva numbers...