The question of pilot error is cruel to raise, but reckless misadventures, sometimes fatal to others, dot the annals of the clan, whose worthiest trait is a call to public service rather than a cultivation of its wealth... Being born to fame is not like earning it: you have to create your own worth in other coin, you have to escape history's shadow and get, as they say, a life.
Enter Ms. Calvi, a tenacious singer-songwriter from London whose Siouxie-worthy moans cap virtuosic strings and creaking, complex orchestrations.
Eddie Borgo, whose Cleopatra-worthy gold and pavé crystal collar is made of graduated steps like Egyptian step pyramids, likens the pyramid shape to punk culture with its spiked and studded garb.
Henry Scott-Irvine, whose film looks worthy of your support whether or not you share his views, remains to be convinced.
But Gaddis has written with care and elegance, and he has produced a biography whose fineness is worthy of its subject.
As his retirement heralds the end of an era, Cometti is also one of the few remaining denizens of Australian showbiz whose employers consider worthy of limousine service.
In a movie whose concept is worthy of vintage Woody Allen, Paul Giamatti plays himself as a tormented actor rehearsing a production of "Uncle Vanya".
The New York Times should be embarrassed for censoring the column by Dave Anderson, a man whose views were worthy of a Pulitzer Prize.
Too often Washington seems a dull, phlegmatic figure, wooden if worthy, whose self-command stemmed from an essential lack of inner fire.
We thought we'd take the opposite tack in Booming and offer, as a regular feature, the obits of boomer-aged people whose lives are worthy in a quieter way, and, upon closer inspection, not so ordinary.
