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...partaking in his father's drugs-before he hit his teens. He learned his craft by osmosis. "I did the entire Sanford Meisner process just by hanging around and smoking weed in the stairways with my friends who had just gotten back from class," Downey says. "They'd tell me the exercises. It seemed like inevitably they wound up screaming and crying-screaming at each other and crying at what was screamed. I would just call that Thanksgiving...
...Somehow Downey's winding road through stints as wunderkind, ne'er-do‑well and recovering guy took him to where he is today: a contented, kung-fu-obsessed homebody in the prime of his career. But he really can't tell you how. "If I try to explain it," he says, "then I'm imagining that I've figured it out." Hero he may be, but he's not the figuring-out type...
...renewed colors do more than add vibrancy; they help Goya tell his story. Released from decades of yellowed varnish, a tiny white spot in The Second of May draws the gaze to a horse's muzzle, and from there, up to the animal's penetrating eyes, which stare at the viewer in terrified accusation, as if to say, "Look at what you've done." Bloodspecked bodies crumpled at the bottom of each painting now form a single visual line and provide a graphic reminder that the French massacre of "innocent" militiamen occurred only after the Spanish had slaughtered their share...
...clients (see Claude Cormier's neon-pink Lipstick Forest for Montreal's Palais des Congrès) or those looking to make a lasting statement - like the fountain memorial to Princess Diana in London's Hyde Park by Kathryn Gustafson and Neil Porter. "Think of them as gardens that tell stories," advises Richardson. "Even if you're not always able to understand them...
...large part of the training is overcoming cultural differences. "The handshake, if you are a woman, is tricky," says Geetika Verma, an instructor at Dale Carnegie Training who has previously worked at Wipro. "We tell our female students, if a man doesn't reach out to shake your hand, take the first step and shake his hand. Show confidence." Other tips include learning to address everyone by their first name, and handling networking lunches and dinners. Another significant part is developing self-confidence. "Youngsters raised in lower-middle-class families and in smaller towns, when they manage to enter good...