Academic records, essays and community involvement were taken into account as well as cheerleading, said Annette Hroncich, a recreation supervisor for the parks department, who has run the competition for the past 25 years and has seen it become more demanding.
McLiam Wilson has also written a television documentary on paramilitary punishment attacks in Belfast and recently recorded an essay for Radio 4 about his love for Paris in the aftermath of the attack by two gunmen on the Charlie Hebdo offices in January, in which 12 people were killed.
During the nineteen-seventies, Beck published three more novels and a collection of political essays, recorded a spoken-word LP, was profiled in magazines and newspapers, and became a bona-fide L.A. celebrity.
That was the conclusion reached by Lex Perez, a proud member of the seduction scene who recorded a video essay analyzing the finer points of Ferguson's cocksuredness.
As Thomas Mann unflinchingly and keenly recorded in his 1938 essay "Brother Hitler," the Führer might have been "unpleasant and shameful," but he was not someone whose kinship Mann could simply wish away.
Williamson's talent for acting and lust for life were brilliantly recorded in a 1972 essay by Kenneth Tynan for the New Yorker which charted his haphazard preparation for a concert at the White House for President Richard Nixon.
This video essay was recorded in Tehran last year, as Mr. Panahi, one of the leading Iranian filmmakers of the past decade, was under a legal assault from his government that included the confiscation of his passport, the threat of a long prison sentence and an even longer ban on making movies.
A young CLR James sailed to London from Trinidad in 1932, and wrote nine essays recording his responses for the Port of Spain Gazette.
Or home to a mentally-stunted man named Wilbur who records video nature essays atop a trampoline.
This year, as part of its seventy-fifth-anniversary celebration, the Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y is publishing a series of essays about the recorded appearances at the Y by scores of twentieth-century writers.
