Riefenstahl's "genius" has rarely been questioned, even by critics who despise the service to which she lent it.
From one such trip, she earned a whopping 2,667,600 francs, partly from ticket sales and partly from the ad campaigns – Pears soap, Columbia bicycles – to which she lent her name.
His mother bought him his first guitar in 1956, an inexpensive Gallotone Champion acoustic for which she "lent" her son five pounds and ten shillings on the condition that the guitar be delivered to her own house, and not Mimi's, knowing well that her sister was not supportive of her son's musical aspirations.
And Lasdun is acutely aware of the ease with which she therefore lends herself, as a "character", to these sorts of mythologising and essentialising impulses.
Julie Andrews, whom Zeitels has treated, notes his compulsive enthusiasm for his field, which, she says, lends him a "Peter Pan" quality: "I know of nobody else who eats, breathes, sleeps, thinks, and talks about vocal cords — non-stop".
First, they strip apartments of anything that might put off a buyer: unusual paint colors (too specific), figurative artwork (too distracting), family photographs (because buyers need to picture their families living there), although Ms. Eisen will sometimes plant a photograph of a dog, which she believes lends a generic homey feeling.
The difference between these firms and the aforementioned crème de la crème is, according to Kennedys HR advisor Emma Phipps, the fact that firms like hers do much more basic claims work – which, she adds, "lends itself better to employees who go in at a low level".
Novelist Deborah Levy found herself picking up buttons and beads on the streets after her mother died, one of which she has lent to the exhibition.
She points out that Charlie Kaufman's film Anomalisa, a stop-motion animation to which she has lent her voice, has been a part of the possible-Oscar conversation, too.
