During the 1930s, his career as a conductor took off with his appointment with the Vic-Wells ballet ( later The Royal Ballet ), but his career as a composer stagnated.

Like Jennifer, Landis was seen as an ambitious blonde with little real talent, and after a series of failed relationships and a career that had quickly stagnated, she committed suicide with an overdose of barbiturates.

He received promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, but his career stagnated and he received no further promotions.

Her career stagnated after this surprising victory, and she didn't improve on her 1. 92-meter mark until 1978.

After arriving home in Sarajevo after completing his army service, Šešelj's career stagnated due to difficulties in finding a job at the university despite impressive academic credentials.

Elvis's career stagnated while artists like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan dominated the charts.

Mr. Black's life was an open book, so to speak, from his birth in Jackson, Mississippi, through his basketball-playing days at L.S.U. and his attainment of a B.A. degree, which had presumably prepared him for his career as district sales manager for Peerless Business Machines.

His minor league playing career lasted through 1895.

Parsons asked Woolfson to become his manager and Woolfson managed Parsons ' career as a producer and engineer through a string of successes including Pilot, Steve Harley, Cockney Rebel, John Miles, Al Stewart, Ambrosia and The Hollies.

She later had a brief solo music career in the early 2000s after the dissolution of Hole, releasing America's Sweetheart ( 2004 ), and went through several rehab sentences and run-ins with the law until achieving sobriety.

Charles has been involved in the music industry through much of his career.

A majority of the DeMille motion picture library now resides with EMKA, Ltd. through the television division of NBC Universal, due to Paramount Pictures ' losing the rights to the DeMille films in 1958 to EMKA, so technically it is Universal Pictures that now oversees a vast part of DeMille's motion picture career as well as its related archival material.

In the first half of his career, he explored these themes mostly through horror and science fiction, although his work has since expanded beyond these genres.

Compiled by Young himself, with his hand-written notes about each track, Decade represents almost every album from his career and various affiliations through 1977 with the exception of Four Way Street and Time Fades Away.

He soon started to write short stories, although his career did not take off until 1982, when, through Harlan Ellison's help, his short story " The River Styx Runs Upstream " was published and awarded first prize in a Twilight Zone Magazine story competition.

Nevertheless, this work was important in David's career because it was the first completed painting of the French Revolution, made in less than three months, and a work through which he initiated the regeneration process that would continue with The Death of Marat, David's masterpiece.

A number of career specific courses such as veterinary assisting, medical billing and coding, real estate license, bookkeeping and many more are now available to students through the Internet.

He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.

Crick began a Ph. D. research project on measuring viscosity of water at high temperatures ( which he later described as " the dullest problem imaginable ") in the laboratory of physicist Edward Neville da Costa Andrade at University College, London, but with the outbreak of World War II ( in particular, an incident during the Battle of Britain when a bomb fell through the roof of the laboratory and destroyed his experimental apparatus ), Crick was deflected from a possible career in physics.

" He describes how, when he was at boarding school, he set his chemistry lab on fire and, escaping through a hole in the floor, went home, believing his school career to be at an end.

As a fielder, the Greenberg was awkward and unsure of himself early in his career but he mastered his first-base position through countless hours of practice.

I think Olivia couldn't have asked for a better companion to take her through a new stage in her life and career.

This drove him to seek approval and acclaim through personal endeavour and career achievement, and fuelled his eagerness to please others and his need to be liked.

The piano teacher later decided to make a career change and become a children's agent, as she knew people in the business through her daughter's work.

He rose to prominence through his service in the First World War, receiving numerous honours and decorations, and continued his military career through various British campaigns across Europe and Asia.

" As his vocals matured and deepened through his career, so did the Ramones ' songwriting, leaving a notable difference from Joey's initial melodic and callow style — two notable tracks serving as examples are " Somebody Put Something in My Drink " and " Mama's Boy ".

Robinson's career is generally considered to mark the beginning of the post –" long ball " era in baseball, in which a reliance on raw power-hitting gave way to balanced offensive strategies that used footspeed to create runs through aggressive baserunning.

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Like Orson Welles or Elvis Presley, he had a history of weight fluctuations through his career, attributed to his years of stress-related overeating followed by compensatory dieting.

The span of his career, from the 1920s to the 1970s, is reflected in the styles of his work, ranging from Nordic Classicism of the early work, to a rational International Style Modernism during the 1930s to a more organic modernist style from the 1940s onwards.

In the 1970s Korner's main career was in broadcasting.

He changed his surname from Einstein ( to avoid confusion with the famous physicist ) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and talk shows during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Chaplin received several awards and recognitions during his lifetime, especially during his later career in the 1960s and the 1970s.

Guest began his career in theatre during the early 1970s with one of his earliest professional performances being the role of Norman in Michael Weller's Moonchildren for the play's American premiere at the Arena Stage in Washington D. C. in November 1971.

Bowie shelved his solo career in 1989, retreating to the relative anonymity of band membership for the first time since the early 1970s.

He started his career playing for the youth teams of Farul Constanța in the 1970s, before being selected by the Romanian Football Federation to join the squad of Luceafărul București in 1980 for two years.

He finished out the decade of the 1970s with his controversial performance as Colonel Walter Kurtz in another Coppola film, Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ), a box office hit for which he was highly paid and that helped finance his career layoff during the 1980s.

With that, the Nets employed all three Albert brothers during the franchise's history ; Al started his broadcast career with the Nets during their ABA days, while Steve called Nets games during the late 1970s and 1980s.

Author Peter Lehman suggests that had he died in the 1970s when his career was in the doldrums, it might have earned a minor mention in the obituary section of the newspaper.

Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning four decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most " continuously successful " band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s.

Following further research by the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians ( ACS ) in the 1970s and 1980s, an " amended " career record was published which reduced Grace's total of centuries to 124.

After the television show ended and the band broke up, Dolenz hoped to continue a solo recording career and released several singles on MGM Records ( and its subsidiaries ) in the early 1970s.

Alan Haynes describes him as " one of the most strangely underrated of Elizabeth's circle of close advisers ", while Simon Adams, who since the early 1970s has researched many aspects of Leicester's life and career, concludes: " Leicester was as central a figure to the ' first reign ' Elizabeth as Burghley.

While his best-known roles have spanned three decades from 1981, he started his television career in 1964 as Bert Bradshaw in the soap-opera Crossroads, and after several appearances as Captain Fantastic on the children's television show Do Not Adjust Your Set, by the 1970s Jason was already an established screen comedy actor with recurring appearances in television series.

While she continued to make films in the US and the UK throughout the 1960s, her career languished in the 1970s, where she appeared in a number of horror flicks.

Jagan's political career continued to decline in the 1970s.

In the late 1970s, Glenn is reported to have supported Shuttle Mission Specialist Astronaut Judith Resnik in her career.

According to his autobiography, That's a Winner, Buck's children helped his career in the 1970s.

He was a star in the early 1970s, but his career went downhill due to rumors of a paraphilia involving fish.

She first came to prominence in the early 1970s with critically acclaimed roles in the local stage productions of Hair ' and Jesus Christ Superstar ( in which she was the first African-American to play the role of Mary Magdalene ) before launching a solo career.

In the late 1970s he was part of one of the sport's great outfields along with Fred Lynn and Dwight Evans, who was his teammate for his entire career ; Rice continued the tradition of his predecessors Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski as a power-hitting left fielder who played his entire career for the Red Sox.