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...fluke. He beat the world's No. 1- ranked player, Ivan Lendl, 26, in straight sets with a 150-m.p.h. serve that blurred across the center court's slick grass surface for 15 aces and with volleys that edged deep or skidded down the sidelines. For the West German wunderkind, this year's win was even sweeter than last year's. At a postgame press conference he announced, "I really proved I can play well on grass and proved I can be a Wimbledon champion." But on courts other than grass, he modestly allowed, "I am just...
...generation that wanted to stay forever young is entering middle age. This year the leading edge of the Baby Boom, the 76 million Americans born in the fecund years between 1946 and 1964, reaches mid-life. Former White House Wunderkind David Stockman and Actor Sylvester Stallone (Rocky, Rambo) turn 40 in 1986. So do ex-Mouseketeer Carl ("Cubby") O'Brien, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Director Kenneth Adelman, Real Estate Mogul Donald Trump and Comedian Gilda Radner. At the tail end of the boom, the last members of the vast litter are graduating from college this spring and stepping into...
FOLLOWING THE inauspicious debut of wunderkind Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute in 1791, the music critic of the Berlin Musikalisches Wochenblatt remarked that the opera had "not won the much hoped for and expected acclaim, on account of its inferior text and subject matter." Even so, the magical spectacle and symbolism that makes up what is perhaps Mozart's most popular opera continues to win the hearts of many music-lovers and theater-goers alike. That is, when the opera is performed well, which is definitely not the case at the Lowell House Opera's current rendition...
...Science Wunderkind...
...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...