Word: acclaimed
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...like a joyous street party. As the audience sang along to a sonic hodgepodge mixing rocked-up Moby with early 1990s rap, The Go! Team exuded infectious energy and joy. On the tail end of their three-week tour across the US, The Go! Team are swimming in fresh acclaim. Though their current line-up is only a year old, The Go! Team found themselves nominated for this year’s prestigious Mercury Prize in England, competing against albums by Coldplay, Bloc Party, and eventual winners Antony and the Johnsons.The Go! Team’s current success is testament...
...says, he is more comfortable with that more low-key level of acclaim. He’s a happy cult star, not a superstar...
Murakami’s increased acclaim in the U.S. has earned him star-like perks—he’s prestigious enough that his very presence is a boon for universities like Harvard—but he remains wary of his fame...
...book doesn’t appeal to him he says so openly and that seems to be working well,” Shibata says. Rubin translated “Murakami’s “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,” which earned him acclaim in the U.S. But Murakami has more than one translator: Alfred Birnbaum, who translated much of Murakami’s early work, and Philip Gabriel, who translated Murakami’s latest big hit in English, “Kafka By the Shore.” But Shibata says that Rubin always...
...film was released to enormous critical acclaim in Australia, garnering five Australian Film Institute Award nominations, including one for Best Adapted Screenplay...