Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bent Basement. The Rent Act of 1957 virtually lifted all controls and enabled Rachman to shoehorn tenants into his flats at whatever prices the traffic would bear. He also showed talent for "bending the basement," that is, converting cellar space into cribs for prostitutes or into nightclubs. The 1959 Street Offences Act, which drove prostitutes off London pavements, brought him another windfall, for the girls would pay more for rooms than even the desperate West Indians. In one house, seven prostitutes were charged $10 per day, payable every day at noon, or $25,000 annually, for a house valued...
Walt, Disney readily spotted this talent, took her under his tutelage and made her a star. She first became chief heroiue of the Mouse series, then filled leading roles in several of Disney's feature-length films. Disney, she says, taught her to be natural, and that quality which first endeared her to Mickey Mouse and his expensive public, grew steadily...
...calls "one of the world's great secret societies, with branches everywhere"-though the society was never very secret. Everyone has his own list of great Irishmen, but there is no denying that the gifts of the Irish have always enriched other countries more than their own. Their talent for politics, for faith, above all for words, gave more brilliant politicians, distinguished churchmen and magical writers to the U.S. and the rest of the world than to Ireland. Perhaps only their talent for fighting, while amply exported, as amply remained at home...
...Balenciaga is the only designer I admire. You say Saint-Laurent is staying small . . . good. Cardin has talent, but he makes too many shocks." It was Paris' irrepressible High Fashion Doyenne Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, 80, so-soing this and high-hatting that, while Women's Wear Daily took notes. But Coco saved the sharpest needle for her high-class clientele. "They're all so famous and well dressed and they never pay their bills-never. It's a form of stealing. And the princesses, some of them, they're the worst of the lot. When...
...Guggie" fellowships the status of a U.S. intellectual knighthood, personally knighted some 5,000 artists, scholars and writers to the tune of about $1,500,000 a year. Moe's genius was to spot promising people in their 30s, give them time and money to make good their talents. No man has done more to nurture creative Americans (Physicist Arthur Holly Compton, Painter Jack Levine, Composer Aaron Copland, Novelist James Baldwin). Moe will continue such manifold interests as the presidency of the American Philosophical Society, but his infinitely painstaking talent hunt is over...