Members of the fashion world are a notoriously parochial and persuadable lot, a point rarely lost during the final days of the twice-a-year collections, by which time editors, stylists and store buyers have achieved a Vulcan mind meld and ordained some new designer a genius, while reclassifying some one-time genius a joke, all for reasons that seem to have little to do with talent.
This leaves the old one-time "breeding genius" with no way out but to fall back on the less scientific but far more successful handicapping methods of two of my wife's friends who regularly humiliate me the rest of the year — or my spectacularly less successful but emotionally rewarding "merit" system.
The 71-year-old one-time comic genius had an inordinate number of film clips and, according to most of the critics, wasn't terribly funny.
'Maria Maria/Ultimo Trem Milton Nascimentoo The Brazilian dance company Grupo Corpo has worked with some of the geniuses of Brazilian songwriting at one time or another.
Under his one time alias Porno DJ, 1999 single "The Judgment" on German dance stalwart Kontor gives us a glimpse of his genuine production genius.
All four had taken the rap for Ronnie at one time or another, rather than see the Court robbed of its guiding genius.
"It takes a certain talent, genius (if you will) to insult 17,000 people – black, white, male, female, straight, gay, rich and poor – at one time".
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And in our mind's eye, his creatures from beneath the sea, from Greek mythology, from Jules Verne and from his own painstaking, one-frame-at-a-time genius will live long, long lives. .
One-time cocaine user, genius who was notoriously uncertain about what 51% of the population (that's you, ladies) want, and man whose iconic face appears on pairs of Freudian slippers (geddit?) that are sold at his Hampstead museum for £19.40 - the man born Sigismund Schlomo Freud was the father of psychoanalysis.
