Word: wunderkind
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...30th World Chess Championship. Challenger Victor Korchnoi, 50, conceded his final defeat to Defending Champion Anatoli Karpov, 30, six games to two with ten draws. The pair, known to chess fans as "K-2," traded off-court insults during much of their 51 days of play. Soviet Wunderkind Karpov takes home $280,000. Korchnoi, a defector from the U.S.S.R., $170,000. A nice check, mates...
...Ferrer as his father!), a multilingual film (the principals appear to be speaking English, which has been dubbed into German and subtitled back into English) and a $5 million budget. Once, churning out more than 30 films before his 30th birthday, Fassbinder was called the movies' Wunderkind. At 35, he is Kind no longer. And, on the evidence of Lili Marleen's empty excesses, it's no wonder. -By Richard Corliss
...make two cameo appearances without paying him a dime. The other, fictitious actors also come free. Jerry Rexford is an aspiring young screenwriter who supports himself by doing editing jobs at a trade journal called Pet Care Hotline. One of his scripts catches the attention of Rick Heidelberg, a Wunderkind director-producer desperately looking for a property that will match his first, and only, success. Heidelberg must deal with a formidable studio head named Alexander Hellstrom, who is beginning to wonder if all of his wealth and power truly means anything...
With a Harvard M.B.A. and striking good looks, Mary E. Cunningham was bound to land a new job. But could the 29-year-old executive Wunderkind, who was forced to resign from Bendix Corp. last October, get back on the fast track at a major firm? No problem. After considering and discarding a flock of other offers, she last week accepted a "six figure" post with Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., a subsidiary of the Seagram Co., Ltd., the world's largest distiller (1980 sales: $2.5 billion). Her new position: vice president for strategic planning and project development, similar...
...United Kingdom and its hapless representative, Joe Veriato, takes a long satirical swipe at the movie industry, with a representative collection of fools: Mickey Boorman and Pat Sligo, two pot-smoking "New Wave" filmmakers from L.A.; Carl Dorf, a self-exiled victim of McCarthyism; Dan Rashur, the wunderkind director with the Colgate smile; Sy Joelmersbagger, a tweedy history professor from Yale; and Sir Flute Parsons, an over-the-hill British screenwriter with a fondness for money and American boys. Wood gives each one his brief theatrical moment and tries to build an act out of a few comic situations (like...