She learned to be unafraid of the human body and its myriad transformations, saying: "If you can find pleasure and fun you become inventive".
"Many Cubans who work in tourism or have begun private enterprises are now experiencing a new prosperity and inspiring other Cubans to become inventive," says Bette Wanderman, director of the documentary A Cuban Legend: the Story of Salvador González, who has been visiting the country for the past 19 years.
Mornings become inventive with what Nosh calls a breakfast pie, a kind of muffin-ized frittata McKenna developed to feed the mobile needs of her bike-riding customers.
In the 1930's, though, she said, their work became more inventive.
Although Leigh cautioned that variety would suffer as we traveled into high remote country, if anything, meals became more inventive.
His language, classical and conservative at first, became more inventive, incorporating what he heard in his neighborhood, which he never left.
The company became more inventive and bold, with revenues growing from $5,000 in 1999 to $1.65 million in 2005, and churning out more than 10,000 diplomas for customers in 131 countries.
The Thick of It, the first TV show to employ a "swearing consultant", took cursing to a level where it was the opposite of gratuitous and became instead inventive and original.
Garland started out as a Ronnie Scott protege, became an inventive early explorer of folk-jazz crossovers (with the band Lammas) and earned international acclaim as a Chick Corea sideman.
After reaching his 50 off 43 balls, Bell became more inventive in his strokeplay, finding the boundary via a reverse paddle and pulling Darren Sammy in front of square for four.
