Word: wunderkind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should have been surprised by what was clearly the Academy's most complete transgression: its failure to nominate Hollywood wunderkind Steven Speilberg for his directorial effort in The Color Purple. The Academy gave itself away as a bunch of jealous, unappreciative snobs when it failed to commend Speilberg for E.T, choosing to give the Best Director award of 1982 to Sir Richard Attenborough for his crowd control talents in Gandhi...
...former wunderkind remained feisty and unrepentant. Railing against Apple's "hostile posture toward me and the new venture," Jobs in his resignation letter declared, "I am saddened and perplexed by management's conduct...
...expensive flop after another. To the savviest TV producers, "it was as if NBC didn't exist," recalls Gary David Goldberg (Family Ties). "We didn't go there with an idea, because we knew it would be crucified." Silverman, who had earned a reputation as a programming wunderkind at CBS and then ABC earlier in the '70s, was also scalded by the boycott of the Moscow Olympics, which left him with $34 million worth of dead summer air. Moreover, there was turmoil at the top of NBC's parent corporation, RCA: three presidents and four chairmen within a decade...
...Marketplace in the Bostonian Hotel, it also offers an incomparable selection of American wines. Rarities in the new Charles Hotel at Harvard Square offers equally innovative continental fare with impeccable service. Both establishments may face some stiff competition from another newcomer, Le Marquis de Lafayette at Lafayette Place, whose wunderkind chef should soon become the talk of the town...
...London and a science center in the monumental heart of West Berlin. He is the subject of a lavish catalog with commentary, to be published next month, titled James Stirling: Buildings and Projects (Rizzoli; $45). Philip Johnson, the doyen of his profession, has endorsed Stirling as a longtime wunderkind who is now "a mature leader of world architecture...