Word: wunderkinder
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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...
...enemy--P.G. Wodehouse--but the score should more than make up for it, with such all-American numbers as "Clap Yo' Hands," "Someone To Watch Over Me," "Maybe," and "Do, Do, Do." It was a smash hit in 1926. The Loeb's version is directed by Loeb's Wunderkind Josh Rubins '70, author of the well-received musical Suffragette! At the Loeb tonight through Saturday and July 7-12 at 8 p.m. except Saturday at 9. Tickets are a steep $5.50 and $6.50, but if you're a student and you get there 15 minutes early...
...Communist; of a heart attack; in Paris. Wounded and captured at Verdun in 1917, the roly-poly, bespectacled Duclos, a baker's apprentice before the war, joined the party in 1920, working first as an agitator among soldiers and draftees, and later earned the reputation of a political wunderkind by defeating Socialist Leon Blum for the Assembly. An orthodox Stalinist, Duclos gained leverage in the Communist International, virtually directed the 1946 expulsion of onetime U.S. Party Boss Earl Browder for continuing his wartime policy of soft-pedaling the "class struggle." After the Nazis invaded Russia, he organized the French...