Word: wunderkinds
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...with the space: a grand, high-ceilinged dining room in downtown's Hotel California, with a black-and-white tile floor, lush faux-leather booths, refurbished chandeliers and, at its center, an inviting horseshoe bar. This is the second home for the restaurant founded by chef Eric Tucker - a wunderkind whose interest in healthy eating was spurred by a youthful passion for long-distance running and the realization that he was hypoglycemic. (See pictures of San Francisco...
...Bloomberg terminals have yet to be delivered, and the steam-powered White House e-mail system recently crashed. Add to all that the fact that much of Barack Obama's economic team is still finding its way around the White House, and it's somewhat remarkable that this economic wunderkind turned Obama adviser is moving at flank speed on the biggest restructuring of the U.S. economy since the New Deal...
This year's Oscar story lines have already been etched in stone - Mickey Rourke as the comeback kid, Slumdog Millionaire as the art-house wunderkind, Milk as the timely social commentary (released three weeks after Proposition 8 passed in California). Yet while the critics have been fussing over wrestlers and Mumbai quiz shows, audiences have been flocking to Gran Torino - an Oscar outcast that's been doing laps around the competition at the box office. At some point this week, the Clint Eastwood drama will pass the $100 million mark, easily surpassing the box-office receipts brought...
Last Wednesday, Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) and the Humanities Center inaugurated their joint lecture series, “The Church of What’s Happening Now,” with a conversation with wunderkind video artist Paul Chan—which I think is hysterical...
Imitation might be the sincerest form of flattery, but some blame Obama for the lack of effective satire. Novelist Joan Didion recently told a group of New Yorkers that because of the political wunderkind, America has become an "irony-free" zone. "You know, you're allowed to laugh at him," Daily Show host Jon Stewart quipped in July to an unresponsive audience after several Obama jokes fell flat. (See the top 10 late-night gags...