Word: acclaim
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...performance earned acclaim from critics and middle-schoolers alike, and the film grossed $150 million worldwide on a minimal budget. The reviews and receipts from Carell’s first big role coincided with critical plaudits for his portrayal of boss Michael Scott on NBC’s “The Office,” an adaptation of the BBC comedy of the same name...
Uzodinma Iweala (U-zod-din-ma EE-wall-a), a 23-year-old Harvard graduate who grew up in Washington, D.C., has written an extraordinary debut novel, Beasts of No Nation (HarperCollins), that is basking in critical acclaim. The book tells the story of Agu, a child soldier in an unnamed country in Western Africa, who has been recruited by a unit of guerrilla fighters after watching his own father being slaughtered. The author visited Nigeria, where his mother is currently the finance minister, frequently when he was growing up, and lived there last year, working with refugees. We chatted...
...have received enormous acclaim for this book, which is unusual for a debut novelist. What has that been like...
...Fish is one result of Tan's new energy, and the next is an opera based on The Bonesetter's Daughter. Her collaborators are librettist Michael Korie and composer Stuart Wallace, whose 1995 opera Harvey Milk, about the assassination of San Francisco's first gay city supervisor, won wide acclaim. They are aiming for a 2008 debut in the U.S. or China. Meanwhile, Tan is starting to think about her next novel. "I'm not sure what it will be about, but it will incorporate music, because that's my obsession right now. One of the things...
...while the authors have not received such acclaim without reason, their argument is ultimately flawed...