Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JUNCTION. Another London slum saga based on a novel by Nell Dunn (Poor Cow) is saved from its pulpy sociology by Director Peter Collinson's extraordinary spirit of place, and Actress Suzy Kendall's widening range of talent...
...which Richard Wright was well qualified. He spent his first 19 years learning his place in Mississippi and Tennessee. For a boy with brains, talent and a white-hot ambition to be a writer, the inevitable conflicts were excruciating. Miss Webb, who was one of Wright's close white friends, gets most of them down, but she can scarcely improve on Wright's own well-known Black Boy (1945), a relentless autobiographical rendering of poverty, starvation, humiliation and yearning...
...determination was not limited to the goals he set for the School. He established an Office of Development for fund raising at the Divinity School and travelled to major cities seven or eight times to raise money. His talent for interesting lay contributors was of great value to the School...
...product. Jimmy Wallington was Chase & Sanborn. Don Wilson was JellO. Harry von Zell was Ipana. Today the sell is generally softer or more tangential, the product is illustrated, and the salesman is anonymous and generally invisible. "You're not paying for the name," explains Chandler Warren, talent-booking boss for the Young & Rubicam ad agency. "You're paying for the quality that a person brings to the commercial...
That is the script's main-and almost only-joke. As the story's central character, Actor Segal shows flashes of a comic talent hitherto unexplored by Hollywood. But what picture there is for stealing is burgled by Wiseman with his portrayal of a stereotypical literateur. As lofty as Edmund Wilson, he pronounces Jehovah-like judgments on literature and humanity, while for his livelihood, he caters to audiences of culture-ridden housewives who beg, "Please, my Debbie wanted me to ask you about Philip Roth...