Word: self-taught
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...spared nothing in pursuit of victory. Bond paid for a complete marina and twelve-meter training facilities at Sun City. He gained the services of Robert Miller, a brilliant, self-taught designer who produced the banana yellow Southern Cross. Bond cash also provided Southern Cross with an on-board computer named Fred that helped evaluate the boat's early performance, and flashed salty admonitions (like "Piss off') to the navigator...
...save face, y'know?" Thus he describes the Freehold, N.J., home where he was born in 1949. Home life was not easy, and when his folks went West prospecting for better jobs, Springsteen remained behind. At 16 he was commuting to Greenwich Village to play guitar in cafes. Self-taught, Springsteen also became proficient on the piano and harmonica-"If a guy can fix a radio, he can find his way around a TV, y'know?"-and soon he was forming bands of his own. He was "discovered" for recordings by John Hammond, the archetypal artists-and-repertory...
Joey Gallo's career must have been a disappointment to him. Despite the most strenuous criminal efforts, he never did find a place above the salt at the Mafia's endless family banquet. His alternate gambit, as a kind of self-taught existential hero on Manhattan's celebrity circuit, did not amount to much either. And of course he ended up dead of assorted, uncredited gunshot wounds in a clam bar in Little Italy a couple of years back...
Moriarty lives now in Greenwich Village with his wife Franchise, a former dancer with the Jeffrey Ballet, and their one-year-old son. A self-taught jazz pianist, he spends his free time filling in at small jazz spots in his neighborhood. He will not become really good as an actor, he says, until he is 40. "All the best work onstage comes from men of 40 and up. That is when the heart begins to creep into the technique in England, and when actors in America learn not to indulge themselves." Meanwhile, audiences can look forward to the next...
...moved Flowerdew out of bucolic obscurity is a shrewd, self-taught archaeologist named Leverette Gregory. He suspected that Flowerdew might still harbor relics from the original Yeardley settlement, which is known from old chronicles to have been founded shortly after the first settlement at nearby Jamestown. Thus Gregory asked the farm's owners, New York Investment Banker David A. Harrison III and his wife, for permission to do a little spadework. He soon found pieces of exposed sandstone that were not native to the area and clearly cut and shaped by human hands. A little digging suggested that...