Word: wunderkinds
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...Simon Rattle wields his baton more skillfully than his tongue. A recent interview with the long-reigning wunderkind of classical music - a conversation held in English, translated into German and published in Die Zeit, then retranslated back into English by the British press - came off like a tirade against Brit Art stars Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. ("Much of this English, very biographically-oriented art is bull___.") "I opened the papers and thought, 'I said what?'" he recalls. "It's embarrassing, because it's not what I meant and it's certainly not what I think." Let's hope...
...news has named Stephanopoulos, the former White House wunderkind, to replace hosts Sam and Cokie on the Sunday-morning political show This Week. Some wonder whether the ex-operative can be objective, but switching from politics to TV is nothing new, he tells TIME's Michele Orecklin...
...Ronaldo subplot that gave this tournament its real drama. At the age of 25, the former wUnderkind played in his second World Cup final, trying to make up for his near career-wrecking appearance in the World Cup 1998 finale against France. He suffered a seizure just before that match?allegedly brought on by a combination of pressure and injections to treat a dodgy knee?and played as if in a zombie-like trance. In subsequent years at the Italian club Inter Milan, Ronaldo Luiz Nazario de Lima, dogged by injury, never regained his sparkle or his reputation...
...Ronaldo subplot that gave this tournament its real drama. At the age of 25, the former wUnderkind played in his second World Cup final, trying to make up for his near career-wrecking appearance in the World Cup 1998 finale against France. He suffered a seizure just before that match - allegedly brought on by a combination of pressure and injections to treat a dodgy knee - and played as if in a zombie-like trance. In subsequent years at the Italian club Inter Milan, Ronaldo Luiz Nazario de Lima, dogged by injury, never regained his sparkle or his reputation...
...certified wunderkind at 25, Foer spares no expense with his typographical special effects?italics, capital letters, parentheses within parentheses, onomatopoeia, song lyrics and encyclopedia entries?and the book comes laden with bloated blurbs ("He will win your admiration, and he will break your heart," croons Joyce Carol Oates), but don't let that distract you. Under it all there's a funny, moving, unsteady, deeply felt novel about the dangers of confronting the past and the redemption that comes with laughing at it, even when that seems all but impossible. As Perchov would say, it's the right thing...