In the meantime, his right arm -- or the piece of plastic that was supposed to pass for it -- rolled around neglected in the back seat.
He touched my mother's right shoulder a gesture so familiar to her from his normal days that she neglected to turn around and question why he was standing in the kitchen beside her.
A compact, handsome billionaire, Mr. Berggruen is often talked about for his eccentricities — he does not own a home, preferring to jet around the world and live out of hotels — but his ability to find, invest in and turn around neglected companies points to a hardened and savvy approach.
Last year, the city helped broker a deal that allowed the former baseball star Mo Vaughn and his real estate company, the Omni Group, which has had success turning around neglected properties, to take over and begin to fix 14 of the city's most troubled buildings that had been owned by the Ocelot Capital Group.
Somehow, he managed to combine iconoclasm with authority, gathering and nurturing younger or neglected writers around him.
That will inevitably lead to bleary eyes at 4 a.m., irate spouses and neglected schoolwork around the world.
It started in February 2011 when I saw a planning notice on a lamp-post outlying a proposal to turn some neglected space – around 138 sq m – at the end of the road into two private residences.
HAVA offered no assistance or guidelines as to what type of machine to buy, and local elections officials did not have many resources to investigate the choices; indeed, theirs are some of most neglected and understaffed offices around, because who pays attention to electoral technology between campaigns?
(Don't Tell Advertisers)." (Business Day, Aug. 24) prompts me to write about my own neglected demographic: women around 65 who are part of the "new old" cohort.
In its mission statement, the foundation describes itself as "dedicated to preserving and restoring neglected films from around the world," and in one way or another, each of the 12 films in the BAMcinématek program falls into that category.
