Word: wunderkind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hubert Laws and pianist McCoy Tyner move in. Hubbard dazzled Harvard crowds last year when he coached music and stood up President Bok in The Learning for Performers Series. Hubbard has not progressed as much as hoped for from the time he broke in as an 18-year old wunderkind. But he is up in the top ten trumpeters playing today. Laws is a rarity; a lead man on flute: Not in the Eric Dolphy bracket, Laws is nevertheless more than competant on the flute. He is very much into the jazz-rock scene despite his usually classical instrument. Tyner...
...lopsided 62%-to-29% lead over Ford, Carter seemed supremely confident of victory. During those precious summer days at home in Plains, he spent more time working out what he would do once in the White House than what he would do to get there. Surprisingly, the Wunderkind who conquered the party in the spring with a nearly flawless strategy did not have a similarly well-thought-out master plan for the battle against Gerald Ford...
Ajootian, the sophomore wunderkind, won the hammer throw with a toss...
...mystery of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog--new German wunderkind...
...Inserts are close-ups, garish interludes in the process of the whole." So explains Richard Dreyfuss as The Boy Wonder, a washed-up wunderkind silent-film director. Inserts, the film, is also a garish interlude, examining the transformation of an accomplished and talented young movie-maker into a drunken pornographic film director. The story itself involves the efforts of The Boy Wonder to finish shooting a porno flick in the course of a single afternoon, all in the living room of The Boy Wonder's Hollywood Spanish mansion. A "degenerate film with dignity," tacked with an "X" rating, conjures images...