Word: whiz
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...football in December 1993, Murphy seemed like the person most qualified to return Harvard football to its former glory. Thirty-four months later, at the end of October 1996, with the reality of two or possibly three consecutive losing seasons on his hands, one wondered if the young football whiz kid recruited from Cincinnati could deliver...
...Charles Johnson, comments early on, "the problem is not a lack of meaning...it's too much meaning." Quite often the participants' insights can be delightful--for example, author Gordon suggests that the irrationality of Cain's murder of Abel epitomizes "the crisis of liberalism"--but such comments often whiz by without sufficient examination...
High school students in Palisades Park, New Jersey, urgently needed to send their transcripts to colleges, but it was midsummer, and there were no staff members around who knew the new computer system. So the school found Fielder, an area whiz who has tinkered with technology since age nine. With a password and a prayer, he created the necessary templates and streamlined the program for next year. Says Fielder: "It was hard to stay calm under the pressure, but there's a solution to every problem...
...week) and Noise/Funk (in stores now) makes the music and messages contained in these two shows available even to people without gold cards and/or a 212 area code. Do they work as albums in their own right? Noise/Funk at first would seem unrecordable--the show, which stars tap-dancing whiz Savion Glover, is about dance, about movement, about flashing, stomping, whirling feet. A recording of a dance seems as useful as a photograph of a symphony. But tap dancing is percussive, rhythmic, noisy. To hear Glover's feet banging away is to feel his passion, his intent; visuals would...
...period of nearly 15 years, a prominent psychiatrist treats a young neurotic named Gene Kenny. After much painstaking analysis, Dr. Rafael Neruda sees what he believes to be a triumph of his therapeutic skills: Gene is no longer a passive wimp but rather a rising computer whiz with a wife, a son and--somewhat to the shrink's discomfort--a beautiful mistress. After their last session, Neruda notes, "I have to admit a surge of vanity: I was proud of what I had wrought." A bit later he hears from his former patient, "You cured...