Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Edward Albee's drama about a venomous all-night orgy on faculty row has reached the screen with every four-letter word intact. And Elizabeth Taylor, playing bitch-wife to Richard Burton's hagridden husband, proves that there is powerhouse talent on both sides of the family...
...considerably better at home (25 wins in 40 games v. 14 of 35 on the road this year). It is truer still that while the Mets set out to draw crowds with familiar-and fading-names, the Astros are starting to cash in on the richest crop of youthful talent in the majors...
...morning daily was founded in 1851 to bring the news to the crowds that had drifted into town with the '49 gold rush. Back in those good old days, stories ran under the bylines of Mark Twain and Bret Harte; the paper was so rich in talent that Jack London was merely a stringer. Since then, though, the Union has suffered a morose procession of 15 different owners and be ome steadily more anemic under each one. By this spring it was down to just 30 pages a day. Circulation was a slim 63,000. The paper was managing...
Enter Dr. Johnson. It is the talent of a great interviewer, but it functioned only feebly in Boswell's interviews with his father, who threatened continually to disinherit his feckless son. "Better to snuff out a candle," he snarled, "than leave it to stink in a socket." In London later that year, the talent was further tried by a man who hated Scots and sycophants and saw both in Boswell. "Mr. Johnson," Boswell gasped as he sat gaping at the Grand Cham of English letters, "I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it." Fixing Boswell with...
...this anthology Playwright Lillian Hellman, who shared and sheltered many of Hammett's years, has contributed an introduction that pays sentimental homage to his talent. She has also included the fragment of a serious novel, undertaken late in Hammett's life and never published before. There is just enough of it to suggest that the author did his creative spirit a disservice in confining it to literature's underworld...