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While the adaptation is respectful, it "mostly misses the humor, lyricism and emotional charge of Frank McCourt's magical and magnificent memoir" and unfortunately becomes "something resembling a conventional tale of a gifted young man's struggle to lift himself out of oppressive circumstances" (Todd McCarthy, Variety ). The harshest complaint: It's just "two hours and 20 minutes of beautifully photographed rain, mud, blood, lice, vomit, dead babies, and whining" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The more upbeat take: The movie is "a thinner version of the novel, but you still get a drama that has you laughing and brokenhearted" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). (Click here to read an excerpt from the book.)
These examples may serve to confirm what we all already suspect, that there is a spectrum of natural ability for language, with the gifted at one end--presumably, our poets, writers, lawyers, politicians, teachers, and so forth--and the less gifted at the other.
Michelangelo gave the drawing of Phaëthon to Tommaso de' Cavalieri, the Roman nobleman to whom he addressed some of his most passionate sonnets--Michelangelo was a gifted poet, too.
When the novelty had worn off, this immensely gifted writer experienced isolation and hardship, and finally became insane, spending most of his life in an institution.
The connotation of gifted artistic performance, however, might stem from the gypsy culture in Andalusia whose dialect, caló , has words like duquende (possibly from the Russian dook ) meaning `spirit or ghost,' and duquendio , meaning `maestro.
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