Word: talented
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Harvard students are rewarded for more than just their intellectual abilities. This year a rising senior has the opportunity to become the next Miss Massachusetts-crowned for her beauty, talent and poise...
Lawless will perform a piece by Frederick Chopin on the piano for the talent portion of the pageant...
Megan Kellar is bubbly and bouncing and lip-synching to the Backstreet Boys. Get down, get down and move it all around! The sixth-grader is dancing to the synthesized bubble-gum beat at a talent show at the John Muir Elementary School in Parma, Ohio. Get down, get down and move it all around! There is nothing down about Megan, even as she gets down in front of the audience. Her mother remembers a similar effervescence half a dozen years ago. "She'd be singing to herself and making up songs all the time," says Linda Kellar. And sure...
...Pfeiffer and their two kids) and writes all his scripts with a Paper Mate on a yellow legal pad, usually finishing a first draft in two days. "He trusts himself creatively," says Steven Bochco, Kelley's mentor when he worked as a writer for L.A. Law. "He has pure talent, he has craft, and he has clearly found a way to tap into his imagination that doesn't take a lot of time. When you add to that a tremendous work ethic, that's a hell of a package." And, like most highly effective people, Kelley doesn't watch much...
David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (Little, Brown; 274 pages; $24) is a mixed bag of 23 essays and short stories that display a range of intellect and talent that is unseemly for any one writer to have, let alone show off. Like the author's earlier work, this collection is designed to keep readers from getting too comfortable. You know the feeling if you had trouble keeping up with the plot lines, arcana and footnotes that spread like kudzu through the 1,000 pages of Wallace's 1996 novel, Infinite Jest...