This year, instead of making yourself crazy trying to find a variety of different knick-knacks for all the people on your list, why not just give everyone the gift of Bill Murray?
Mr. Klugman and Mr. Durning had their star turns too, but their careers were fueled more by supporting roles and ensemble work, jobs that require a different skill set, a knack for being plain old joes.
They are about acquiring a knack for adopting different styles and assuming different points of view.
Hintze's advantage seems to be his knack for synthesizing different fields of knowledge, something that can be seen through his education, passion for the arts and various career choices.
Both genre-jumpers in their own right, Actress and Martyn also find common ground in their knack for blending different historical moments.
She has a lot of God-given talent in a lot of different areas". Hatzer had a knack for coming up big in the biggest of games, whether it was scoring seven goals against Burroughs, the Falcons' toughest league competitor, or scoring a game-tying goal in the fourth quarter to send the Falcons' quarterfinal thriller against Los Altos to overtime.
"But Ai shows a remarkable knack for working in different registers". The sculpture at the Venice Biennale should be seen as entirely different from the pop video, the blogging, the activism and the rest, Hilty suggested.
"A turn here, a turn there, and my life might have been very different, too". Louis Brandeis had a knack for making himself an expert on just about anything, but the original "Brandeis brief" was a hundred-and-thirteen-page document that he submitted to the Supreme Court in 1908, in Muller v. Oregon, a case concerning a law limiting the workday for women in laundries and factories to ten hours.
MR. COHEN and others suggest it's a combination of things: Ms. Warner's sex appeal, business savvy and knack for connecting with different kinds of people.
