It can happen that stardom simply evaporates, leaving talent intact, which would be one way of describing Al Pacino's career – he is still a performer with magnetism, but has shed what made him so fascinating in the 1970s, a physicality with elements of both the innocent and the wild.
Yet, although marijuana was considered the epitome of drug abuse, he emerged from two months of prison to find his career not only intact but his talent in greater demand.
However, several trials (e.g. TRIBUTE, TALENT, INTACT) have failed to show a benefit to small molecule EGFR inhibitors in combination with chemotherapy in NSCLC (reviewed in [48]).
The addition of TKIs (gefitinib or erlotinib) did not yield a survival advantage over platinum doublet (carboplatin/paclitaxel or cisplatin/gemcitabine) in four randomised trials (INTACT I, II TALENT, and TRIBUTE).
This keeps their hopes in their (self-perceived) talents intact, as if sooner or later their exceptional potential will be discovered, even if they don't devote much time to harness it.
So far, his golden talent remains intact.
Not because of any doubt that his talent remains intact, of course, even though Dettori is now into his 40s.
He visits museums (his wife reads the legends aloud), listens to recorded books ("I've never been so well-read"), gardens (though he sometimes pulls up flowers instead of weeds) and has resumed painting, his artistic talent apparently intact judging from a recent rendition of poppies in a vase.
Happily, the Frog folks' ethos of staging an event which picks up the diversity of Glasgow's dance heritage and runs with hosting both iconic live acts and DJs from the past alongside emerging talents remains intact.
These are eternal trials in sport, and the people we tend to acclaim are those who come through with talent and dignity intact.
