Even Joan Crawford, often so stiff and humorless, gave a spontaneous and likable performance as a professional woman unable to choose between lovers (Andrews, again, and Henry Fonda) in "Daisy Kenyon" (1947), Preminger's sole, and very engaging, venture into the modern-woman's-picture genre.
He emerged as an idealist: overoptimistic, perhaps, about the potential benefits of the reform, as well as about the retreat of the state, but someone at least prepared to venture an engaging vision of the future which goes beyond the correction of Labour's budgetary disaster.
Moreover, at Blue, one gets to chat with the engaging marine photographers, scientists, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and philanthropists (sometimes all in one person) working to place ocean preservation at the forefront of environmental protection, especially as the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) approaches next month in Paris.
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It doesn't hurt that engaging interview subjects are tapped for commentary from notable venture capitalists such as Tim Draper and Bil Tai to recording artist Imogen Heap to quantum physics guru Spiros Michalakis to even Forbes' own Laura Shin (go, Laura).
"By making real-life tasks and experiences more like games almost any business can inspire customer loyalty, launch much more engaging marketing campaigns, even change consumer behavior in radical ways," another Venture Beat columnist, Camille Ricketts, wrote earlier this year.
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What Yorkston is actually promoting is Folk Songs, an album that sees him venturing away from his own material, with its hugely engaging, twin themes of inadvisable whisky-fuelled 3am romance, and wistful hungover melancholy – tonight, he performs the gorgeous, skinny-dipping-themed Surf Song – to venture ever deeper into the realms of traditional folk.
If you want to venture a couple of more blocks west, check out the always-engaging Southern Exposure Gallery at 3030 20th Street.
