Word: wunderkinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...orchestra, conducted the afternoon I attended by freshman wunderkind Stuart Malina, provided sturdy if uninspired accompaniment. Harriet D. Silbaugh's Tudor scenery has ginger-bread-house charm. And all in all, two misguided performances notwithstanding, the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players give a classy operetta a yeomanly production...
...format of the morning show is almost as old as television itself. Like many another of the medium's innovations, it was laid out by NBC's Wunderkind president Sylvester ("Pat") Weaver in the early '50s. "We want America to shave, to eat, to dress, to get to work on time," he wrote in a memo outlining what he had in mind. "But we also want America to be well informed, to be amused, to be lightened in spirit and in heart, and to be reinforced in inner resolution through knowledge...
...Experimental Music. The wunderkind of the music world's intelligentsia, Brian Eno had appeared with the early Roxy Music, Robert Fripp, Phil Manzanera and with his own solo efforts, and has amassed an awesome catalog of art-rock. He has produced the last two Talking Heads albums and was, for all practical purposes, another member of the band. But now on the new album he is given credit for everything except wrapping the albums in cellophane. Are the Talking Heads to become just another Eno subsidiary...
They share several other traits, too. Both were wunderkind; Dixon was elected to the state legislature in his early 20s, and O'Neal began his politicking by winning the race for sheriff in a heavily Democratic county. Both favor free markets for farm produce and more mining of soft Illinois coal. Both call American foreign policy "indecisive...