Her friends included such writers as Mary McCarthy, Elizabeth Bishop and Philip Roth, as well as influential figures in the publishing world such as Philip Rahv and Jason Epstein.
At 39, after two decades as one of the company's stars, Mr. Tsiskaridze is approaching the end of his dancing career, but he still has a fanatical following among balletomanes as well as influential advocates in Moscow's elite.
The website she founded and edits, Rookie, tackles subjects from break-ups to politics, with all the content (art and writing) contributed by teenagers as well as influential thinkers, musicians and creatives.
Except for the two United States senators, the governor is the only statewide elected official and appoints powerful cabinet members like the treasurer and attorney general, as well as influential judges.
A former federal prosecutor now on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, he is well regarded by Democrats as well as influential Republican senators like Orrin G. Hatch of Utah.
Other signatories include Nora Lustig, professor of Latin American economics at Tulane University, as well as influential experts who advise policymakers, such as Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute and an adviser to UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, and Olivier Blanchard, former IMF chief economist.
It is true that some people in the Pentagon, as well as influential organizations like the American Enterprise Institute and the Project for the New American Century, have close relations with the Likud Party, and especially with Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is much more in tune with American neoconservatism than Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is.
Across a decade in pop she has been vexatious, cheeking powerful peers (Madonna, Beyoncé) as well as influential tastemakers (MTV, New York Times, Google), meanwhile live-Tweeting more detail about the private disputes with her American record label (Interscope) than anybody there can be comfortable with.
Two years on, the cofounder of the Folio prize Andrew Kidd and Silicon Valley veteran Ayesha Karim hope Alexi, an app backed by illustrious authors as well as influential critics, will bring to the attention of "passionate readers" books that on launch were eclipsed by heavily promoted rivals.
This template, in one way or another, has guided hack reviewers as well as influential critics like Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris.
