She's published three books — one about marketing aimed at teen-agers, a second about rebels who reject the nine-to-five, and a third about the "gifted child" industry — and, with Barbara Ehrenreich, she is the co-editor of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, which sponsors journalism about inequality.
One of the great Hollywood turnarounds of the last decade-and-change has been Ben Affleck's transformation from frequent punchline in the wake of such seismic duds as Gigli and Jersey Girl into one of the most gifted triple-threats the industry has to offer, with his considerable skills as writer/director/star readily visible in films such as The Town and 2012 Best Picture winner Argo.
If money needs to be saved, start with the $409bn gifted to the fossil fuel industry in 2010 in subsidies.
The New York contenders were a decidedly motley lot: the gifted and imperious Halston; the industry stalwarts Oscar de la Renta and Bill Blass Anne Kleinn, the sportswear pioneer; Stephen Burrows, a relative unknown then being touted as the future of American design.
In 1935 Maté moved to Hollywood, where he soon established himself as one of the industry's most-gifted cinematographers.
While renewable energy struggles for temporary and comparatively tiny incentives, billions worth of permanent subsidies are gifted every year to the industries driving our climate over the cliff.
Democratic leaders have short-circuited the reform "debate" and permitted the process to be hijacked by health insurance and pharmaceutical industries that have been gifted with a mandate for millions more insured and billions more in taxpayer subsidies.
"Ralph Eubanks is a gifted editor, acclaimed author and respected publishing industry leader," Jon Parrish Peede, the publisher of Virginia Quarterly Review, said in a statement.
In its place there's a thought, an idea or a feeling that gets bounced around by some of the most exceptionally gifted and passionate human beings in the industry.
He was not only an incredibly gifted filmmaker and ambassador for the UK film industry, he was a significant part of the history of Shepperton Studios.
You inspired admiration as a gifted physician and an innovative leader in the private hospital industry.
