单词 | precocious |
例句 | It was sad the way they were still babies of four and five years of age but so precocious about taking care of themselves. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “You precocious chick! Who put that into your head?” said Jo, enjoying the innocent revelation as much as the Professor. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Could this precocious Brooklyn boy not just become a Candidate but possibly win the tournament? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z "This defendant acted with the thought and cunning of an adult! Consequently he is to be sentenced as an adult. Without exception this precocious young man has long since outgrown his youth." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The main purpose of the five tests, one gathered, was to isolate and study, if possible, the source of Zooey’s precocious wit and fancy. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Among them was a precocious and stunning young drama student named Frances Farmer, who less than two years later the rest of them would be watching on the silver screen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “We talked a lot about what you were like as a baby. She said you were very precocious, especially in toilet training and speech.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z As a child Bill was precocious and easily bored by his studies. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z They endured my early precocious behavior—but with what private anger and humiliation? Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She took Dorothy as her own daughter and pushed her to succeed, teaching the precocious girl to read before she entered school, which vaulted her ahead two grades. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The insight was precocious, anticipating as it did the distinction between history as experienced and history as remembered, most famously depicted in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Callie, precocious master of the helpful disturbance, knocked her chopsticks to the floor. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z "A precocious child," Miss Honey said, "is one that shows amazing intelligence early on. You are an unbelievably precocious child." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z His parents call him precocious; I looked it up, and it does not mean the personification of an earsplitting, nerve-jangling, head-pounding, exasperating plague that makes you long for deportation from your own country. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Why was the disk’s precocious technology not widely adopted in Crete or elsewhere in the ancient Mediterranean? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She was also, not incidentally, a single mother raising a dear, precocious boy named Jonathan, whom I often babysat. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But my fear was too great, my conscience too precocious to allow me to relinquish control of my well-guarded soul. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z While he was back living in Wisconsin and attending elementary school, a Madison newspaper ran an article about his precocious accomplishments. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Because he was always trying to copy Freud, Frodo became very precocious. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Clara was extremely precocious and had inherited the runaway imagination of all the women in her family on her mother’s side. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandmother had told me I was precocious. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Lee's endearing characters, Atticus Finch and his precocious daughter, Scout, captivated readers while confronting them with some of the realities of race and justice in the South. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was my fault that I'd beamed when Miss Davenport, Momma's loathsome cousin by marriage, had mentioned what a precocious child I was and how familiar my features seemed. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Like those hidden, precocious adolescents who have no real-life sexual experiences, I read a great deal of romantic fiction. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Fitzsimmons’s barn, consisting of horses owned by the Wheatley and Belair Stables, was teeming with precocious youngsters and proven, high-class older horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He grinned at me like I was a precocious child. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Adults were impressed with what seemed to them a precocious maturity, and they were a little frightened at it too. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The docile, obedient student came home a shrill and precocious son who insisted on correcting and teaching his parents with the remark: ‘My teacher told us....’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Behavior that had seemed clever and precocious in childhood would have been considered uncouth in a young woman. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It seemed to him that they had been arrogant and precocious words. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z She was smiling the smile of a precocious child who knew she had said the right thing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z "Such as whether or not it's got something to do with the fact that you are quite exceptionally precocious." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z How had they produced such a child—so smart and self-possessed, so dutiful, helpful, and precocious? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Elinor cleared her throat and gave Mo a reproachful glance, as if it could only be his fault that his daughter was precocious enough to know such things. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z But Jesus makes his appearance here only as a corpse; the living man, the wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist, is never once mentioned, nor anything he ever had to say. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrences precocious talent for experimentation and his engaging character were already attracting attention from recruiters in academia and industry. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z An Old Hand at Only 26 The precocious French conductor Lionel Bringuier, all of 26, took the podium at Avery Fisher Hall on Thursday to lead the New York Philharmonic in an impressive program. Music Review: Lionel Bringuier Leads Philharmonic by Himself 2013-06-14T19:16:12Z I was a very precocious reader as a young person. Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney Read Hemingway at Marcia Brady’s Urging 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z In the late 1960s, a precocious student named Danny Scher was the elected social commissioner at Palo Alto High School in Northern California. 52 Years Ago, Thelonious Monk Played a High School. Now Everyone Can Hear It. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z “Concerts often focus on miraculous first works by precocious composers,” says Stern. Seattle Phil concert focuses on late works by the greats 2013-01-10T22:01:56Z The rest is paradox: a street kid recognized for precocious brilliance from early childhood, a wild child widely and deeply educated in artistic craft and tradition, an instant celebrity who was temperamentally shy. Let’s Pause to Appreciate Basquiat’s Hundred-Million-Dollar Painting 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Like so many kid actors, Coogan outgrew his precocious appeal, and when he reached maturity in the 1930s, he asked his mother and stepfather for the $4 million or so he had earned in movies. Shirley Temple: A Cute Cocktail of Talent and Charm 2014-02-12T16:13:08Z The jacket copy for “Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel” calls her a “bohemian Eloise for our times,” billing that brings to mind a self-consciously precocious imp. Childhood Tales From the Chelsea Hotel 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z Watch both and you'll see the height of Hitchcock's mastery of silent cinema, and a precocious confidence with sound design, typified by the famous "knife" sequence. The Genius of Alfred Hitchcock at the BFI: 10 of his lesser-known gems 2012-07-04T09:38:11Z Not only are puberty blockers reversible, but their original use included assisting cisgender children who were undergoing precocious puberty. Perspective | The GOP’s anti-trans bills are ignorance in action 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z A precocious little girl is playing outdoors with a toy circus she’s built when a spooky gent with a limp approaches her. Books of The Times: ‘The Shining Girls,’ a Novel by Lauren Beukes 2013-05-26T20:23:12Z Jawlensky’s precocious impatience with the strictures of representation was the only real constant in his early portraits and landscapes. From Alexei Jawlensky, Abstract Faces at Full Intensity 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Her simple jabs and subtle flashes of anger work best; the overwrought jokes and tantrums she's asked to deliver misfire, pushing the character from precocious to obnoxious. RuPaul made his sitcom-starring debut with "AJ and the Queen," and we are not amused 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z As a boy in Kansas City, Mo., Thomson says he was “precocious, good-looking and bright.” ‘Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings’ Paints a Troubling Portrait 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Their sound is a bit precocious for a group of women in their 20s. The women of Thunderpussy want to talk music, not feminism 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Saramago and one of his young girlfriends were “precocious sinners,” he says. Books of The Times: A Cautious Memoirist Who Ends With a Laugh 2011-05-10T20:49:38Z Yes, Duchess is meant to be precocious; but this version of precocity feels scripted. A Novel of the West Spans Decades and Genres 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z With Shay, Napolitano captures the authentic quirkiness of a precocious adolescent. Review | In ‘Dear Edward,’ the world’s most famous orphan finds something to live for 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z A decade ago, he was creating songs about the precocious kid who hated his minimum-wage job at a retail store, a relatable, everyday figure in a hip-hop world populated by larger-than-life stars. Kanye West's 'Yeezus' an uneasy listen 2013-06-16T20:37:00Z As a teenager, he rode the international junior competition circuit, making a precocious third-place showing at the 2011 Tchaikovsky competition at 17. Winning a renowned piano competition put Seong-Jin Cho on road to stardom 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Even her formidable school principal called her a “precocious little button” and believed her potential to be limitless. Dasani Showed Us What It’s Like to Grow Up Homeless. She’s Still Struggling. 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Clever, neatly constructed and funny, this is an amazingly precocious work, written when Pratchett was 13. A Blink of the Screen by Terry Pratchett – review 2012-11-15T08:00:07Z Unlike most stars who die young, Phoenix isn’t just associated with early death but also precocious talent. The untold story of lost star River Phoenix – 25 years after his death 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Pearl speaks in a raw voice that can sound awkward one moment and precocious the next — a wholly believable consciousness for a child raised in such strange, constrained circumstances. Review | 3 novels that aim for the heart of America’s love affair with guns 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z In Ruby’s captivating novel, the first in a series, precocious twins search for clues buried in the bones of a present-day, steam-punky New York. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Big, bold and fervent, its first cast features the precocious virtuoso Ivan Vasiliev - the youngest dancer in the company to be given the role. This week's new dance 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z For not only did voluntary youth actions become, by the time I was young, a parody of the great ones from my mother’s youth but my teen-age politics were indistinguishable from my precocious cynicism. My Mother and the Failed Experiment of Yugoslavia 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z It’s about a precocious 12-year-old, and its opening paragraph contains a question for the ages. Books of The Times: Padgett Powell’s New Novel, ‘You & Me’ 2012-08-14T12:00:00Z The humor comes from the brinkmanship between Ron and his precocious charges; he may be a con artist, but he can’t out-con a television child. Television Review | 'Sons of Tucson': What a Charming Loser on New Fox Sitcom 2010-03-12T00:40:00Z There, in the turret room, sitting on the floor, Bunting found an audience he never anticipated: precocious students, proto-hippies, poetry-curious delinquents—the “unabashed boys and girls” to whom he would dedicate later collections. The Improbable Life and Prescient Poetry of Basil Bunting 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z In the precocious voice of little Scout, Lee captures the weird amalgamation of our persistent innocence and profound wisdom. Analysis | New York Public Library’s most checked-out books say a lot about what we read and why 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z I failed my mother too by taking far too precocious an interest in sex. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z As thunderstruck as he felt in Ms. Della Femina’s presence when they were teenagers — “she had this precocious elegance,” he said — he broke up with her at the end of the summer. Of All the Taco Bells in All the Towns ... 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Though rarely heard, Our Hunting Fathers is one of Britten's most astonishingly precocious works, and Bell made the most of its latent operatic intensity. Hallé/Elder – review 2013-06-25T16:29:36Z It was as if the once precocious, now highly experienced conductor were asking a composer who was young enough to be his son about the root of his own precocious genius. Generous renditions of Mendelssohn and Bach balance youth and experience 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z As a child growing up in rural Surrey, Macdonald developed a precocious reverence for the natural world. Helen Macdonald Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of the Natural World 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z But it is the wisdom and resolve displayed by the precocious 15-year-old Bee Branch throughout her search for her mysteriously missing mother — a brilliant, agoraphobic architect — that drives the book’s suspense. Dear Match Book: Funny Pages 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Kaitlyn was a precocious reader and absorbed books far above her grade level because her sisters would read aloud from whatever they were into at the time, regardless of whether the plots were appropriate. Excellence Runs in the Family. Her Novel’s Heroine Wants Something Else. 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z This precocious British artist works in a light, frothy mode that might be called postmodern rococo. Art Review: Haim Steinbach’s and Helen Marten’s Solos at Bard College 2013-08-01T22:21:00Z They're certainly spoilt, precocious perhaps, and there is a touch of the Outnumbered monsters about them. TV review: My Weird and Wonderful Family 2010-07-22T07:00:00Z Geof Wills, who gave Ms. Handler her first stand-up gig, at the Punch Line in San Francisco, remembers her as precocious. I?m Chelsea Handler. And You?re Not. 2010-04-09T20:20:00Z The precocious Emily, who died at age 19, wrote three volumes of poetry, three novels and several histories, which went unpublished. The Antiquarian Book Fair: From Sondheim’s Letters to a Brontë Discovery 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z In part this is because Mr. Roth’s precocious Manhattan childhood reminded me of Salinger’s Glass family. Books of The Times: In ‘The Scientists,’ Marco Roth Seeks Truth About His Family 2012-09-18T14:03:58Z The next thing he knew, Ted Taylor was driving his precocious son to news conferences. Miles Taylor spoke out against Trump as ‘Anonymous.’ Now he’s gone public and is hiding out. 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Gardner Smith, a precocious student of literature, read the same novelists as most aspiring writers in mid-century America: Hemingway and Faulkner, Proust and Dostoyevsky. “How Does It Feel To Be a White Man?”: William Gardner Smith’s Exile in Paris 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Ridiculously precocious and cripplingly self-conscious, he’s contending with depression and addiction largely outside the attention of his parents, who are too baffled by their own crossroads. Review | Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads’ represents a marked evolution in a dazzling career 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Both were fey, precocious boys who failed to buckle down to the dull clerking jobs found for them by worried parents. Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England by Neil McKenna – review 2013-01-25T20:00:03Z The delicious irony, of course, is that they’re a bunch of brats, and Matilda, the precocious four-year-old who outshines them all, has been sentenced to the two most neglectful, self-absorbed parents on earth. Matilda: The Best Musical Since The Lion King 2013-04-12T03:00:16Z Now she has reached the age when you can vividly remember your youth while also realizing you are no longer precocious. Why Now May (Finally) Be Meg Wolitzer’s Moment 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z "Talented, hilarious, villainous, immature, precocious, and viral — they are at the vanguard of modern hip-hop," Pitchfork writer Sean Fennessey wrote last year. Odd Future booking puts Pitchfork festival in an odd position 2011-07-12T07:00:00Z Infant Bieber was a precocious drummer and the beats here are deft as well as driving. Justin Bieber: Believe – review 2012-06-16T23:05:30Z The repeated gags involving a precocious toddler and his potty chair, in particular, are like chewing sandpaper after the first iteration. “This Is Where I Leave You”: Terrific cast almost rescues turgid middlebrow crap 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z These girls shared certain character traits: They were natural leaders, highly precocious and especially good at navigating relationships. Perspective | When the ‘mean girl’ is a woman: How to deal with an adult bully 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z It was just the dawn of the UK's culinary awakening, with Marco Pierre White as its precocious poster boy, and the stakes have been continuously upped ever since. Warning: chefs behaving properly 2013-07-18T06:00:11Z Like her younger brother, she demonstrated precocious musical ability from an early age. 'The Other Mozart'? Her name was Maria Anna, and she dazzlingly comes to life onstage 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Swift's transformation from precocious teenage country-pop singer and songwriter into a full-blown pop star, which began in earnest on "Red," is fully realized in "1989." Taylor Swift connects with fans via 'secret sessions,' media blitz 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Somewhere between students and professionals, the 20 core company members — joined by other trainees and graduates of the school — ranged from emotionally nuanced and technically precocious to endearingly awkward. Dance Review: Gelsey Kirkland Ballet Performs ‘The Nutcracker’ 2013-12-15T23:24:06Z You Tee, a 12-year-old from Japan, exhibited not just precocious technique but also musicality and style. Dance Review: Crazy Legs and His Rock Steady Crew Teach Hip-Hop 2013-08-01T20:53:21Z Action comedy My Spy stars retired wrestler Dave Bautista as a “hardened CIA operative” who finds himself looking after a precocious nine-year-old after he is sent to spy on her family. Big man, small kid: why the bodybuilding babysitter is a recipe for movie success 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z “Better Things,” like “Louie,” is an autobiographical portrait of a hardened divorced parent working in show business and raising precocious daughters, and it’s easy to find points of communion between them. “Better Things,” Pamela Adlon’s Unlikely Ode to Single Motherhood 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Berney originally set his story in 1968: A brutal hit man goes to this out-of-the-way redoubt and falls for a local woman with two precocious daughters, a drunken husband and an epileptic dog. For Crime Novelist Lou Berney, a Winding Path Led to ‘November Road’ 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z But in Minnesota, where life is supposedly not as fast-paced as in LA, I found kids who were equally precocious. Photographer Lauren Greenfield's best shot 2010-03-31T21:30:00Z Slight and precocious, the symphony was notable mainly for its passing instances of subtly contrasted dynamics, keenly represented here with precise, lively playing. Music Review: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Jeremy Denk at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-20T22:02:00Z Hebald left his sculpting nook for a moment and returned with a photo of a self-portrait that he made in 1935, when he was a precocious 18-year-old in New York City. Sculptor's creative juices still flowing at 93 2010-12-20T19:16:02Z Dion Warren is a precocious 7-year-old who loves action figures, hungers for friendship, and doesn’t quite fit in at his new school, no matter how hard he tries. Unlike "Fast Color," "Raising Dion" may be an industry underdog tale where the little guy wins 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z As a precocious kid he would get on the mic at dances and then, aged 11, he assembled a recording studio his father brought home. Jammer 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z This traumatic experience is obviously meant to inform Oliver’s precocious sexual compulsion. | 'Oliver Parker!': Elizabeth Meriwether?s Dark New Comedy 2010-05-20T22:00:00Z A child, no matter how precocious, would be no match for Dorothy’s adult adversaries. Oz Revisited – Part 3: A Parable of Empowerment 2013-09-18T15:30:10Z Instead of a precocious cynicism about politics, Pynchon, now 53, expressed anguish about America's trajectory from Nixon to Reagan: "the Repression went on, growing wider, deeper, and less visible, regardless of the names in power." Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z The book, “The Girl with Spunk,” was published in 1975, by which time many of Mrs. St. George’s more precocious readers might have overheard names such as Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem. Judith St. George, writer who gave children a sense of history, dies at 84 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z At the age of 6, she began touring the country as the precocious drummer of her parents’ Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, a vaudeville pop band. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for April 17-22 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Sills’s earliest known plaster project was wrought in his Dallas living room, back in the 1980s, when his precocious talent burst onto the aesthetic scene. An Ode to Ornamental Plaster 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Her precocious success was due to both her own charm and her mother’s persistence. Shirley Temple Black, Screen Star, Dies at 85 2014-02-11T11:27:05Z No similar sympathy is demanded for the devil named Ubu, who first sprang to life as the scatological, demented product of the precocious Jarry’s adolescent mind. Arts & Leisure: ?Richard II,? ?Madness of King George? and ?Collaborators? in London 2012-02-12T06:00:50Z The most touching of the characters for me — and the only one without a family — is Neil Hughes, a beautiful, precocious child at 7 and 14 who is homeless by 28. Our Generation: ’56 Up’ Shows Generation’s Commitment to Family 2013-01-07T18:02:59Z Fike is a precocious, photogenic artist with edgy face tattoos and sufficient talent. The Twenty-Three-Year-Old Who Embodies the Hazy Future of Pop Music 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z After all the hours you've spent tolerating precocious preteens at the Club House, you were entitled to your crinkles and creases. Minnie Mouse: the queen mum of cartoon rodents 2013-03-25T16:21:16Z Fanning’s precocious Lily is just the tonic to cure Dylan of the mopes; Johansson’s Kelly, a senior staff member, is all-American-gorgeous and conveniently if improbably unattached. Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo is Pure Cornography 2011-12-22T16:00:34Z The character is almost too precocious, prone to dropping George Bernard Shaw phrases into her speech — "Not that I want to make this woman's death into my own personal moral gymnasium." Anna Paquin shines in Margaret 2011-09-29T06:20:00Z It was hardly surprising, therefore, that all three of his daughters were precocious readers and writers, since demonstrating an interest in the written word never failed to win his approval. Tania Unsworth: ‘My father was almost heroic to me. Then he cut me out of his life’ 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Much of the humor in these sequences is, in the modern manner, action-, celebrity-voice-over- and excrement-based, but enough of Ward’s cracked erudition survives to make intellectually insecure grown-ups and precocious children feel smart. Movie Review: ‘Mr. Peabody & Sherman’ Reboots the Time Machine 2014-03-06T13:00:01Z Letters and reports indicate that the precocious Federigo’s Roman sojourn was like a stay at an extremely exclusive boarding school. Art Review: ?Renaissance Portrait From Donatello to Bellini? - Review 2011-12-22T23:31:48Z His move into hipster fashion was the culmination of a lifelong obsession with American youth style that began when he was a precocious teenager in Montreal. American Apparel founder Dov Charney: ‘Sleeping with people you work with is unavoidable’ 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z “I knew it was going to be done in good taste,” a precocious preteen Shields is shown to say of Malle’s film in an interview around its release. ‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields’ Review: Girlhood, Interrupted 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Even decades after the show ended, Barbara Billingsley expressed surprise at the lasting affection people had for "Leave it to Beaver" and her role as the warm, supportive mother of a pair of precocious boys. Barbara Billingsley, Beaver Cleaver's TV mom, dies 2010-10-16T21:28:00Z Little Matilda is a brainy, imaginative 5-year-old with crassly philistine parents who vastly prefer their dunce son to their intellectually precocious daughter. Glitz, girl power vie for 2013 Tonys in a bumpy season 2013-06-08T15:42:35Z She retains the confidence of a precocious only-child who grew up with her nose in a book and largely in the company of adults. Cassandra Clare Created a Fantasy Realm and Aims to Maintain Her Rule 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z The couple had fallen in love at the Bauhaus school, where Anni had been a precocious weaving student and Josef a teacher. The Japanese-American Sculptor Who, Despite Persecution, Made Her Mark 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Music and dance were integral to the Black Mountain program and accounted for some of the most precocious cultural contributions. The Short Life and Long Legacy of Black Mountain College 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z "It is very precocious and sounds fresh and smart aleck, but I meant it as a lovely, funny gesture. He laughed for an hour." The pleasure of Debbie Reynolds' company 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z A precocious French schoolboy's idea of sophistication, the film is as deep and as brittle as a coating of glossy nail varnish. Requiem for a Killer – review 2012-06-16T23:07:04Z All indicate a precocious talent for drawing, a clear interest in depicting qualities of light, and — perhaps not surprisingly — a very strong attention to line. Mondrian’s World: From Primary Colors to the Boogie Woogie 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Encouraged by the radical ideas of an impudent aunt that every precocious girl should have, Ana develops a passionate interest in the silenced stories of the Scriptures. Review | In Sue Monk Kidd’s ‘The Book of Longings,’ Jesus has a wife — and behold, she’s so woke! 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Spork, a Bend, Ore., restaurant that began as a food truck, is a precocious lovechild of sesame and pork. Bites: Restaurant Report: Spork in Bend, Ore. 2013-12-10T19:37:00Z But even as a precocious blues guitarist and a budding young singer-songwriter, she had maturity on her mind. Music Review: Bonnie Raitt and Mavis Staples at the Beacon 2012-06-22T23:54:20Z Mr. Shore was born in New York in 1947 and may have had one of the most precocious childhoods of any American artist. Stephen Shore’s MoMA Survey Shows a Restless Reformer as a Master of Photography 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Her childhood nickname was Pink; she owned a pet monkey and, despite little formal education, enjoyed an illustrious, precocious career. Nellie Bly's Lessons in Writing What You Want To 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Since I possessed no precocious aptitude for athletics, art, or another money-making endeavor, they understandably lost interest in how I spent my spare time. I was a troll on the white dude-bro Internet: The dark side of gaming, libertarianism, and guns 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The story is inverted, less a confessional, more remembered by its precocious casualty. ‘The Scarlet Ibis’ Blends Opera With Puppetry 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z When people heard I had a son his age, I always just laughed and said I was a precocious kindergartner and left it at that. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She’s avoiding telling co-workers how old her son is 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z "I was an emboldened, precocious kid," Cox says as we drive to his mother's house. From Elephant 6 to Deerhunter: The US's new psychedelia 2011-03-10T23:00:01Z When she didn’t film something, she recorded her reflections on audiotape or in her journal with precocious introspectiveness. ‘Kid 90’ Review: Celluloid Dreams 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z At its center is a remarkable performance from Saskia Rosendahl, who begins the story as a precocious girl and ends a wise young woman. The 10 greatest second world war films you haven't seen 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z “He’s a very interesting historical person,” Armitage said in a precocious manner, adding that the character in the musical is “awesome, cool and smart. And he’s a rapper!” 'Hamilton' opening night in Hollywood: Stars, song and some tears 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Topics: , , , , At the end of the first season of “Dawson’s Creek,” the WB series about precocious teenagers, Joey Potter, the girl-next-door played by Katie Holmes, goes to visit her father in prison. Who are you, Katie Holmes? 2012-07-08T19:00:00Z “Yet after three minutes, it was very clear that we were dealing with the most precocious conducting talent that we’ve seen in the past 50 or 75 years.” At 26, the Conductor Klaus Mäkelä’s Star Keeps Rising and Rising 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z “I don’t say that to impress you or to seem terribly precocious. I’m merely stating it as a fact. I will be president someday because I will stop at nothing.” Review | Ryan Murphy’s ‘The Politician’ is cool and cynical — and difficult to fully endorse 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z In what will surely rank as one of her generation’s most precocious debuts, Ms. Smith announces herself as a writer of remarkable powers, a writer whose talents prove commensurate with her ambitions. 38 Years on Books: The Essential Michiko Kakutani Reader 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z He turned from fixing a cappuccino to stare at the owner of the precocious voice. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z From his beginnings in the philosophical hothouses of early 1960s Harvard and Oxford, he had a feeling of being out of step joined by a precocious self-confidence. Daniel Dennett, Author of ‘Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking’ 2013-04-29T21:49:23Z There are shades of Vonnegut in Wright, and shades of John Irving’s Owen Meany in the precocious Harold. Meet ‘Harold,’ a Dreamy Third Grader With a Lot on His Mind 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z I'd have taken Laurel and Hardy instead every time; you wouldn't have had to hold a gun to my irritatingly precocious head to make me admit to even preferring Harold Lloyd. Bravo Charlie 2010-07-30T11:15:00Z In adapting her memoir for television, she said she chiseled the show’s protagonist into a character who was less self-aware, and less precocious, than herself. Dolly Alderton Gives Female Friendship the Rom-Com Treatment 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z When inhaled, it offers a harsh satirical whiff of the end of the world as imagined by a precocious teenage upstart with a bad attitude. | 'Daydream Nation': Picking Up Extra Credit, and Teacher, After School 2011-05-06T05:30:05Z Her precocious mother, Manjula, struggled in school with the poor grades she received from one professor, who realized that “she was poor and untouchable” and reacted with disgust. ‘Ants Among Elephants,’ a Memoir About the Persistence of Caste 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Working on It: How wonderful for your son that he is precocious. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: He’s an early bloomer, but remember that cut flowers eventually wilt 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z High-octane palettes—and patterns—are a leitmotif for the decorator, a precocious colorist who got his start working for interior designer Miles Redd, another precocious colorist. This Brooklyn Brownstone Is Full of Pizzazz 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z "An Education" proved a star-making role for Mulligan, who earned a best-actress Oscar nomination playing a precocious teen involved with a man twice her age. Mulligan gets Cannes education with 'Wall Street' 2010-05-18T11:31:00Z We sent these precocious Hill staffers to Bar Deco in Chinatown. Date Lab: There was no spark. Still, they persisted. 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z He has already shown precocious mastery in the solo canon, like Bach’s sonatas and partitas. For Classical Music, Spring Was the Season of Solos 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Holed up on location immediately after wrapping the “Potter” series, and playing Sam, a feisty, precocious high school senior on the cusp of a new life, was, she said, unexpectedly cathartic. Arts & Leisure: Emma Watson?s Personal Journey to the Suburbs From Hogwarts 2011-10-05T12:00:00Z An amusingly precocious letter the author typed on her father’s typewriter at 7 begins, Review | Deborah Tannen’s ‘Finding My Father’ pays tribute to a man whose many jobs became his life story 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Where David Lynch finds a dark horror beneath the wholesome exterior, Anderson sees something exotic but practical and self-possessed; a world that ticks along like an antique toy, much treasured by a precocious child. Moonrise Kingdom – review 2012-05-24T14:15:01Z But I don't think that many of us are terribly concerned about hi-jinks concocted by intransigent extraterrestrials or precocious simians. Invasion of the dumbasses 2011-08-11T20:32:01Z He's been starring in movies since his teens when he played the dangerously precocious Max Fischer in Rushmore. The slacker meets the sleuth 2011-03-26T00:02:00Z Mr. Glass was then a precocious freshman at the University of Chicago and taking the first steps on the path to becoming a composer. Review: Philip Glass’s ‘Words Without Music’ Tells of a Life Full of Changes in Rhythm 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Classic sensibilities meet generation #woke when this precocious 27-year-old, who reportedly made a splash at this summer’s Jazz Port Townsend, steps to the mic. 10 Earshot Jazz Festival 2018 shows not to miss 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z What distinguishes Carter's early years is not precocious musicality but precocious maturity and unshakable self-belief. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z Two years later there was that final long story in the New Yorker, called "Hapworth 16, 1924," which purports to be a letter home from summer camp by a wildly precocious 7-year-old Seymour. 2010-01-28T21:05:00Z Those crucial trappings set off the precocious abilities of the mostly youthful performers. An emotionally charged 'Spring Awakening' by Deaf West Theatre 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z It stars three generations of Mr. Keegan’s immediate family, including his parents, siblings, nieces and a precocious nephew. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Always game to play the precocious one, there's a scene in which Culkin's character interrogates a potential babysitter through a mail slot. 25 fun facts about "Home Alone" 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z “It was a place where Lovecraft’s precocious nature was allowed to develop,” Mr. Hobbs said. How to Find the Spirit of H.P. Lovecraft in Providence 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z As a child she sang "a bit too loudly" in her primary school choir and was a "precocious" pianist who could compose in the style of Mozart or Debussy when aged 10. Sarah Connolly: from triumph to tragedy 2013-06-21T12:01:00Z A precocious student finds a notebook with the power to kill whoever’s name is written inside, and starts using it to rid the world of criminals, watched by a 10ft-tall cartoon demon. Top 20 Japanese horror films – ranked! 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z It's not yet clear whether DeGeneres will also appear in the show, but her daytime talker frequently showcases viral videos featuring precocious tots. NBC orders kids' variety show from Ellen DeGeneres, Steve Harvey 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z Mrs. Hitchcock, a daughter of a prosperous Massachusetts farmer, was precocious enough as a teenager to teach botany, mathematics and astronomy at Deerfield Academy. Antiques: 1930s Children?s Art on Display in SoHo 2011-01-20T22:50:27Z It’s with a triumphant air of precocious maturity and bold but secure adventure that Martha plans to head to New York for a party among sophisticates. In “Not a Pretty Picture,” Two Rape Victims Collaborate to Restage an Assault 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z His father, a typographer, supported his son’s precocious talent early on. Aldo Ciccolini, pianist of virtuosity and elegance, dies at 89 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The Intermezzo for piano is a precocious student work, propelled by free, bluesy harmony and tinged with the influence of Debussy in the middle section. Pianist Daniel Schlosberg plays the works of Kurt Weill and Francis Poulenc at the National Gallery of Art 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z A substitute teacher played by Jack Black says, in admiration of a precocious student, “She’s going to be the first female president.” We spent decades dreaming up the perfect female president. She doesn’t exist. 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z He was precocious, then ambitious and needy; drug addiction complicated a long stretch of his life. Jazz Musicians Memorialize Charlie Haden 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z It wasn't a precocious thing to do – everyone we knew was in a band, and all the bars and pubs in Leeds put on nights. Corinne Bailey Rae: Soundtrack of my Life 2010-03-28T00:06:00Z James' Theresa is captivating in her combination of precocious intelligence and radical innocence. SCR's 'Mr. Wolf' sharply provokes, then turns blunt 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z But, whether from stubbornness or a precocious understanding of celebrity, Gabor kept both the name and the way she talked. Zsa Zsa Gabor: oddly modern figure shaped contemporary celebrity 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z And 50 years' worth of precocious kids would have missed some of the best afternoons of their lives. Unsung Creator of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Alex Anderson Dies 2010-10-23T14:35:00Z At a precocious age he helped to create a dot-com start-up, sold it to a larger company and became a millionaire. Books of The Times: ‘The Unknowns’ Is Gabriel Roth’s Debut Novel 2013-07-10T20:23:36Z Ms. Thivisol now studies acting in Paris and marvels at her precocious feat. The Dardennes and Philippe Falardeau on Child Actors 2012-03-09T16:30:00Z As a teenager, Lucy was precocious, sensuous and questing, shiny with lip gloss and hormones. Growing Up in the Margins Without Being Marginalized 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z He's continuing his studies at the same time as developing an intriguing live act that mixes precocious clever-cleverness with forthright political comment. This week's new comedy 2011-07-08T23:09:24Z Set in a college very like Vassar, which Baumbach attended, the film spritzes a mordant wit that is not so much precocious as prematurely middle-aged. REVIEW: While We're Young: Can Ben Stiller Be a Happy 20-Something? 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z Apparently, Lily responded to the program as well, because it inspired her to reach out to Jane to ask if she would like to help work on her character Edith Ann, a precocious kid. Theatre, Film, and Culture of 2014 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z I stepped into her backyard vegetable garden in Northern Virginia on a recent damp, chilly day to find a garden that would have been unusually precocious in a normal spring. This gardener has the secret to tomatoes in May. (Hint: It’s not a greenhouse.) 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Bourgeois French life as observed by a precocious little girl. This week's new films 2011-08-26T23:06:05Z Her co-star Emma Watson, the precocious daughter of two divorced lawyers, was nine when she was famously picked from a line-up in her school gym to audition for the role of Hermione Granger. Emma Watson: Star failing to be ‘normal’ in a fantasy world 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Sarah manages their home, which by then includes two precocious children, daughter Ethel and son Warrington, and a handful of staff. Review | A book about the Civil War that speaks to our times, too 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Yet the script often feels as inhibitingly self-conscious as Ellis does as a host, suggesting a class writing assignment dutifully carried out by a precocious pupil who would rather be working on something else. Review: ‘The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois’ Revels in Unease 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z This induced plants into bloom or precocious development. Perspective | Climate change has altered the winter season and the gardener’s sense of it 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z When his father catches him at it he’s proud, misinterpreting the little boy’s play for precocious lust, but his mother looks on sadly, “knowing what was really going on.” In 1980s Glasgow, a World of Pain Made Bearable by Love 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Perhaps, like those youths, the movie — featuring music and lyrics by Jerome Sable, who is also the director, and Eli Batalion — proves more precocious than accomplished. Movie Review: In ‘Stage Fright,’ a Killer at Theater Camp 2014-05-09T00:52:10Z At 20, the precocious Andrew was received in the art world as the new Winslow Homer after a solo show of watercolors at the prestigious Macbeth Gallery in New York. All the Andrew Wyeth No One Has Seen 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z What precocious little girl hasn't watched Temple singing and dancing to "On the Good Ship Lollipop" and thought to herself: "That looks like fun - I want to do that too"? Fanning inspires look at 5 great child actresses 2013-03-14T20:18:20Z Personally, I always loved the look of Eric’s art, which I would call precocious adolescent snot-nosed sedition. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: An exit interview with my longtime illustrator 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Born on March 21, 1940, in Philadelphia, Mr. Burke was precocious in the pulpit and at the microphone. Solomon Burke, Influential Soul Singer, Dies at 70 2010-10-11T05:00:00Z A few years later, the BBC came to his school and recorded the precocious youngster playing a composition he’d written himself. John Cale’s Musical Journey Knows No Limits 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z “I was always super precocious and my star rose with my early clients very fast — I can’t say I struggled,” said Mr. Marino with his signature irony.. Conjuring Temples of Deep Desire 2010-07-19T13:50:00Z But on the bright side, the movie later made about your life by a precocious young director will be considered the greatest film of all time. Television Review: ?Pajanimals? Puppets, on Sprout, Nudge Kids to Bed - Review 2011-10-09T21:26:47Z And yet another contains only the chatty emails of a precocious 13-year-old girl. Monica Lewinsky, reimagined 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Elgort is a little less precocious than he is innocent, with an openness that is both refreshing and an occasional source of trouble. Is There Anything Ansel Elgort Can’t Do? 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z She began paying attention to what was happening around her, tuning in to nightly news forecasts and developing what Stasey’s younger sister Victoria refers to as a “precocious interest” in current affairs. The many layers of Caitlin Stasey: 'A lot of people think I'm a really angry person' 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Yet it is hard to avoid the impression that “The Hard Problem” — which often feels like the work of a precocious young neophyte rather than an old master — has yet to solve itself. Review: Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Hard Problem’ Is a Mind-Body Gabfest 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z I was very precocious when I was young. Rachel Kushner: 'I know what it feels like to crash a motorcycle at 140mph' 2013-06-08T23:05:01Z “Mockingbird,” a precocious child’s-eye view of race, justice and the mysterious ways of Southern life, was a mammoth critical and commercial hit upon publication in the summer of 1960. To shill a ‘Mockingbird’ 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Played by Ms. Namekawa with sprightly sensuality and exuberant wit, it burst with precocious energy — and outdid in profundity much music written by composers many decades older. Review: Philip Glass, at 82, Unveils His First Piano Sonata 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z A former member of the Houston Ballet, he was a precocious choreographic talent. Trey McIntyre Project’s last dance: Success kills a thriving company Although, that said, this is not a show about the idiocy of precocious heartthrobs. The Other Two: could this be 2019's funniest new TV show? 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z The precocious child becomes a perceptive narrator, sensing from a young age the coldness of the woman she calls “the goddess.” Review | Amélie Nothomb is a must-read author in France. ‘Strike Your Heart’ shows why. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z It was a strong production, with a screenplay co-written by novelist Christopher Isherwood, and a chance for Ms. Pilbeam to display a precocious range of emotion and technique. Nova Pilbeam, British teen star of 1930s Hitchcock films, dies at 95 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Ulysses' son Telemachus, who grew up without his father and who, when he reached manhood, left Ithaca to search for Ulysses, becomes Stephen Dedalus, a fictionalized version of Joyce's precocious younger self. Heeding the lessons of James Joyce's "Ulysses," a century later 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z She added that she and Ms. Heller were also careful to avoid a third type, “the snarky, witty, precocious one,” like the hyperverbal protagonist of “Juno.” Breakthrough Performances of the Summer Movies Season 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z His precocious son exhibits a strange set of contradictory behaviors. Review | Fresh off a Pulitzer win for ‘The Overstory,’ Richard Powers delivers another environmental ode 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z If at times "Surveys" — with its easy tableau of precocious oversharing — appears to celebrate Internet acclaim, it ultimately becomes clear that its verdict regarding ephemeral, empty fame is all too somber. An edgy take on Internet fame vs. Hollywood fame: "Surveys" by Natasha Stagg 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z For all of Mr. Zec’s precocious talents as a draftsman, displayed even as a young child, his artistic career was not an easy one. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Returning to Where the Dream Began 2010-06-15T11:30:00Z Smith's a precocious composer, too, and she wrote all 12 tunes. 9 of the year's best overlooked albums 2011-01-07T22:04:04Z There are no displays of precocious insight or histrionic innocence. Movie Review: ‘What Maisie Knew’ Stars Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan 2013-05-02T21:53:30Z I do not mean to knock the handiwork of a gifted thinker and a precocious mind. Review: ‘Homo Deus’ Foresees a Godlike Future. (Ignore the Techno-Overlords.) 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z His first day on campus he met a precocious 16-year-old bookworm named Susan Sontag, with whom he became friends for life. Mike Nichols’s Brilliant Career 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z One precocious exception was by Margaret Cavendish of Newcastle, the second wife of Hobbes’s patron. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z I know it's absurd and precocious and, of course, at three, you don't really know what that means. David Tennant: 'My bedpost really has very few notches' ? interview 2011-08-19T21:58:02Z Born in Indiana in 1941, Twyla Tharp was a precocious child. Step-by-step guide to dance: Twyla Tharp 2011-02-01T10:43:36Z In lieu of an actual competition, the producers trot out a series of hard-luck cases, weirdos, precocious children, and wild-eyed eccentrics to warm the hearts of sleep-deprived Americans. Simon Cowell without the insults: what's the point? 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Juggling the needs of Max, a self-centered adolescent; Frankie, a burgeoning activist; and the cute-as-a-button, precocious Duke is enough of a task on its own. A comedy for grown women: “Better Things” nails the dance of modern female adulthood 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Beale, especially, does this to real comedic effect — his turns as a quavering old rabbi or precocious child, for instance. A Dramatic Play About Finance? Yes, if It’s Lehman Brothers 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z It belongs to Lily Cole, the precocious model-turned-scholar-turned-actress-and-environmentalist, whose strange lunar beauty turns out to work well in this context, putting her at a perplexed and perplexing distance from everybody else. London Theater Journal: A Weekend of Hedonism and Hope 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z The Coward farce tells the story of a medium who accidentally conjures the ghost of a writer's precocious wife. Angela Lansbury returns to US stage 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Anthropologists are often struck by the "precocious development of social skills among children in those societies," Diamond says, "and they speculate that the richness of allo-parental relationships may provide part of the explanation." Review: Book sheds light on traditional societies 2013-01-07T20:16:03Z Hold on: a young female singer, a precocious talent and a ferocious blogger – we should at this point mention Lily Allen. New band of the day ? No 796: Spark 2010-05-27T15:00:00Z The new family film “So B. It” follows Heidi, a precocious 12-year-old girl with an unusual lucky streak, as she travels alone in search of her family history. Review: ‘So B. It’ Has Pluck, Charm and a Muddy Message About Disability 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z In both method and vision — imagining forms changing slowly over time in response to changing conditions — this precocious, even audacious idea anticipated and possibly inspired the theory of evolution Darwin would publish two decades later. Survival of the Prettiest 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z His wordplay’s precocious, His puns are ferocious; We’re braced for the day he’s full groan. Style Invitational Week 1348: Same Difference 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Her teenage diaries offer glimpses of her precocious talent: She enters poetry contests as E. Vincent Millay and buys a collection of Robert Browning poems with her prize money. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Then there are political romantics, played in this evening’s performance by Edward Snowden, almost 31 years old, with the sweet, innocently conspiratorial worldview of a precocious teenager. ‘No Place to Hide,’ by Glenn Greenwald 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z “Cry Like a Baby,” which also featured his precocious growl, peaked at No. 2 the next year. Alex Chilton, Influential Rock Singer, Dies at 59 2010-03-19T04:41:00Z She was a precocious child, displaying an astonishing early aptitude in nearly every subject. Connie Converse’s Time Has Come 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z This being a Burton production, Victor is not alone in his precocious necrophilia. Tim Burton's Frankenweenie: A Re-animated Delight 2012-10-04T12:00:18Z This popular program, in its 16th year, did so again on Saturday night with a Rossini rarity, “Ciro in Babilonia,” first presented in Ferrara, Italy, in 1812, just weeks after the precocious Rossini’s 20th birthday. Music Review: ‘Ciro in Babilonia’ by Rossini, in Bel Canto at Caramoor 2012-07-08T21:08:06Z In a ninth-grade Spanish class, she met Ruben, a skinny, intense “Havana mutt,” as he described himself, a year her junior and already a precocious artist. Remembering Isabel Toledo, a Designer with Few Peers 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Bobo, who looks like a precocious German graduate student, grudgingly settles for drums. ‘We Are the Best!’ (But Don’t You Dare Call Us New Wave) 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Her precocious and particular ambition: to be a New York City choreographer respected by her community. The Choreographer Beth Gill Takes Her Time, and Bends It 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z In her 20s at the time, Ms. Stibbe had clearly retained a gift for both small details and frivolity, sounding at times like a precocious child herself. Review: ‘Man at the Helm,’ Nina Stibbe’s Comic First Novel 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z She wrote precocious plays and poems, sang and entered talent competitions that she often won, and gave her mother the winnings to help towards the electricity bill. Janelle Monáe: ‘I am the whole package’ 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z In Ms. Millard’s retelling, young Churchill was entitled, precocious, supernaturally confident — one of those fellows whose neon self-regard is downright unseemly until the very moment it is earned. Review: In ‘Hero of the Empire,’ a Young Churchill Earns His Spurs 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Both were the precocious children of academically trained artists. Alexander Calder, MoMA’s Household God, Still Holds Sway 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z A precocious art student who also wrote fiction at Smith College, Ms. Eustis married Alfred Young Fisher, her English professor, and graduated in 1938. Helen Eustis, Mystery Author and Translator, Dies at 98 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z At the same time we perceive the limits of Ansiedad’s precocious but nonetheless naïve way of looking at life. Movie Review: ?Girl in Progress? With Eva Mendes and Cierra Ramirez 2012-05-10T21:10:33Z Myers’ development from his precocious Eugene in the Old Globe’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs” is most gratifying, deeply moving at his character’s meltdown. A provocative 'Kingdom City' at La Jolla Playhouse 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Rimbaud a precocious brat of a genius, Baudelaire plumbing the depths of the soul, gothically and classically at the same time. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z In the aftermath of her mother’s death, Ada returns to her childhood home along with Pepper, her precocious 6-year-old daughter. ‘Weathering’ review: A haunting debut set in the British countryside 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Part of that is the strenuously precocious, self-consciously pretentious dialogue — in and of itself not a vice, and certainly accurate for the kind of teens these teens are. Review: ‘Looking For Alaska’ but Finding Talky Teens 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Though she can be annoyingly precocious, we can’t help but root for her. Magic Mountains: Novels of Appalachia From Natalie Lloyd and David Barclay Moore 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z It has two harassed parents, a trio of precocious children and several scenes containing humorously improvised dialogue. Connolly's 'joy' at being Outnumbered 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Artwork triggered memories from her French Quarter days as a precocious 20-something from north Louisiana, and those memories connected to the more recent history of Upperline. The Queen of a Cherished New Orleans Restaurant Calls It a Night 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z I was probably a little precocious in that respect, in that I sent off to a publisher my first manuscript — one page — when I was 8. Alexander McCall Smith published his first hit novel at 50 and hasn’t stopped. How does he do it? 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z But 500 dense pages in, so much precocious quirk gets exhausting, like an overdone Wes Anderson film. In 'The Lost Time Accidents,' John Wray balances the logical and the ludicrous 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Nor is she prone to adolescent rants or dramatics often displayed in precocious child actors. Former "Sunshine" star Breslin yearns for horror 2010-03-17T21:12:00Z Possessed of perfect pitch, he played and composed for the xylophone from the age of 12, but was even more precocious in astronomy. Sir Patrick Moore 2012-12-09T16:19:01Z But Mr. Posner, a writer still on the sunny side of 30, has a precocious feeling for the harshness with which people often judge themselves as they approach the midpoint of their lives. Review: In ‘The Treasurer,’ a Son Remembers Mama, as She Forgets Everything 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The film, about a family trapped underground while shadowy creatures roam the surface, establishes themes familiar to any “Stranger Things” fan: a precocious child, government conspiracies, an exploding rat. ‘Stranger Things’ Is Back, and the Duffer Brothers Made It Big 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z I also read plenty of Harlequin romances and “Tales From the Crypt” kind of books, but only in private because I was very invested in my public identity as precocious reader. Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney Read Hemingway at Marcia Brady’s Urging 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z The U.S. government’s story proposed that a devious and precocious child could somehow find his way from Saudi Arabia to London and link with a major terrorist operation. Bringing Guantánamo to Park Avenue 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z And there are also emotionally and intellectually precocious 14-year-olds who will appreciate the game’s sharp skewering of contemporary American vacuity as seen through the eyes of a Balkan immigrant named Niko Bellic. Critic?s Notebook: The Court Has Ruled; Now Games Have a Duty 2011-06-28T22:04:38Z I grew up a precocious, musically inclined youngster, and so I of course imagined myself in the show, but as every character but Fantine. They Dreamed a Dream: Les Misérables Is a Whole New Kind of Movie Musical 2012-12-04T17:00:00Z The plenitude is delightful rather than oppressive, because of the freshness and because of Mr. Peck’s precocious command of structure. Dance Review: City Ballet Performs Justin Peck’s ‘Year of the Rabbit’ 2012-10-07T22:18:34Z And author Bradley’s assured, bemused style never causes the reader to disbelieve the little scamp’s precocious abilities in that regard. Sleuths for our time: smarts, not guns 2013-01-11T00:47:17Z She started rapping like the performer who “used to play in front of 200 people at a club,” the precocious personality who caught the attention of rap kingmaker Lil Wayne. Concert review: Nicki Minaj at Chicago Theatre 2012-07-17T05:51:00Z Families can also take heart: While some works display extraordinary precocious talent, others look as if, well, your kid could do that. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Born in Philadelphia in 1833, he had little formal schooling, but he was a precocious talent. Art Review: William Trost Richards at National Academy Museum 2013-08-15T20:21:06Z Ben and Tom grew up together in Wolverhampton and have been making sketches since they were precocious small children. Pappy's: the boys who never grew up 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z Both Louis’s deeply autobiographical novel and J. D. Vance’s memoir are stories by precocious young men about the savagery of their childhoods. ‘The End of Eddy’ Captures a Savage Childhood and a Global Movement 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Child-warping mothers like Maggie have been a staple of socially conscious British theater, often created by precocious young playwrights of advanced talent and merciless judgment. Review: ‘Yen’ Is a Den of Family Dysfunction 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z But the biggest worry is that once trees and shrubs are coaxed into precocious spring growth, once the protective bud scales drop and the blossoms open, freezing temperatures will return to kill tender shoots. George Washington would recognize today’s Mount Vernon garden, but not the weather 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z He'd always been interested in theatre: his first foray was at the precocious age of nine, with a piece he wrote about Sherlock Holmes. A life in theatre: Michael Boyd 2012-11-16T12:43:29Z The stars are generally up to the task — Ms. Ashitey is convincing as the team’s precocious ingénue, and Mr. Molony retains the charm he exhibited as a well-meaning vampire in “Being Human.” Review: ‘Suspects,’ Britain’s Unscripted Relative of ‘Law & Order’ 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z It would be precocious of me to walk to the front of the stage and take on a kind of rock singer pose, at that time in my being – and that's five years ago. Led Zeppelin: 'There was a swagger – we knew we were good' 2012-10-11T16:35:00Z One example of a precocious bloomer is the yellow-flowered Chinese witch hazel, now ablaze by the arboretum’s visitor center. There’s a lot more to winter trees than meets the eye 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z It stars Michael Sheen as a doctor who discovers he is the biological parent of a precocious child genius. Michael Sheen headed for Tribeca 2011-03-08T10:31:11Z All your favorite Warholian stars are here: the foul-mouthed Jessi Slaughter, the girl with a precocious gift for braggadocio; the nerd dressed up as a character from “Tron”; and, of course, babies. Theater Review: Van Cougar Re-enacts Videos at St. Mark’s Church 2012-12-05T21:51:20Z When she accompanies herself on ukulele, she comes across as a precocious child playing in Toyland. Music Review: Nellie McKay on Rachel Carson and Mother Nature 2012-03-22T20:41:49Z Little Mariana Victoria, separated from a loving if rather distant family, is a charming, intelligent, precocious little girl. ‘The Exchange of Princesses’ review: One of European history’s weirdest schemes 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z By the end, I felt I knew nothing about him, save that he's a precocious master of the standup's art. Seann Walsh – review 2012-11-07T18:07:44Z His precocious daughter, who just turned 13, has acquired her first boyfriend, and Junior doesn't approve. Review: `Little Elvises' compelling, suspenseful 2013-01-29T00:31:05Z Blinky Palermo, a precocious art star in Europe at the time of his sudden death in 1977 at 33, comes across here as remarkably focused, not the least in his unwavering dedication to abstraction. Art Review: Thinking Outside the Canvas 2011-04-26T23:58:11Z Otherwise, your daughter’s classmate sounds like a precocious student at the Mean Girls Academy — with a minor in Marquis de Sade bait-and-switch tactics. Social Q?s: If a No-Show Shows 2011-01-27T23:04:18Z Taste-making website Pitchfork called “Gulag” an “impressive and precocious debut,” there was a bidding war for it in the U.K., and Condon found himself unexpectedly popular, especially in Europe. Indie-rock's latest heartthrob? The ukulele player. (He's surprised, too) 2011-09-03T15:03:00Z Was she one of those children with a precocious awareness of mortality? Rachel Whiteread: 'I'm not a joiner-in' 2012-06-12T17:00:01Z “Who Is Rich?” is about a writer who once enjoyed “precocious success” and then sank into obscurity. Sex and the middle-aged man 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z "The kids who turned us off were precocious kids, super professional kids. The reason these girls got the job is they still have some peach fuzz — they were not totally polished actors." Bet your bottom dollar that NBC's "Annie Live!" will usher in a new inclusive era for an old classic 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z And as the movie progresses, a handful of precocious personalities emerge. Review: In ‘Miss Kiet’s Children,’ Refugees Adjust to Dutch Life 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Three bare "trees" pieced together from bits of board energetically evoke "tree-ness" in the same way that a precocious child's drawing would. Lines between nature and artifice blurred in outdoor exhibit 2010-07-01T20:46:00Z The 8-year-old in question, my partner's cousin, is a particularly precocious baker. This éclair cake is so easy, an 8-year-old could make it 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z He’s a lovable scamp, a touch theatrical, precocious but innocent. ‘The Gargoyle Hunters,’ by John Freeman Gill: A love letter to New York City 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z She used her precocious intelligence and wit to channel the pain of abuse and poverty into building an empire. Oprah Winfrey: one of the world's best neoliberal capitalist thinkers 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z “Here I Am” has its own gaggle of oppressively endearing and overachieving children, with their cello and fencing lessons and precocious existential questions. ‘Here I Am,’ Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tale of a Fracturing Family 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z In an era when love songs topped the charts, Temple had major pop hits with “On the Good Ship Lollipop” and “Animal Crackers in My Soup” — numbers tailored to her precocious showmanship. Shirley Temple: A Cute Cocktail of Talent and Charm 2014-02-12T16:13:08Z It was clear from this unorthodox opening that this was a precocious and poised comic more interested in originality than convention. Hannah Einbinder: Portrait of a Young Comic on the Cusp 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z Sometimes it's possible to believe Britain to be inhabited solely by precocious psychopaths who'll shank you for looking at them funny. YA fiction's knife crime lessons 2011-02-11T11:33:45Z He was crowned a lyrical genius for his precocious “Earl” mix tape in 2010, when he was just a teen. Earl Sweatshirt isn’t letting fame hold him down anymore 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z This story tackles some of the harsh realities of factory farming, through the lens of an empathetic young girl with precocious yet limited understanding and a big heart. 3 Illustrated Novels With Animal Magnetism 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z For all her extraterrestrial prettiness and spooky, precocious gifts, she’s still a teenager — in some sense not fully cooked yet, if she’ll ever get to be. One Apartment Building, Many Lives 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Without any explanation from Spiotta, the story of these precocious filmmakers is spliced between scenes of an ever slippier character. ‘Innocents and Others’: Female friendship through the lens of film 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z A precocious child, Johnson skipped several grades and graduated from elementary school at the age of 10. Review | Katherine Johnson of ‘Hidden Figures’ tells her story in her own words 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Esi’s childhood world is one of dreams, visions, and premonitions, which burst onto the screen with a spare, frank simplicity, reflecting the precocious yet ingenuous sensitivity with which she confronts implacable realities. “The Burial of Kojo,” Reviewed: A Boldly Lyrical Portrait of a Young Ghanaian Girl 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Even so, a precocious musical talent, dance lessons and appearances on the children’s variety show You Can’t Do That On Television attracted her to the limelight. Alanis Morissette: from queen of alt rock to Guardian advice columnist 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z But while Salinger’s outlook was locked in the cell of the precocious teenager, Bellow achieved a panoramic social vision that subtly reworked the passionate protest of his favorite Chicago novelist, Theodore Dreiser. ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964,’ by Zachary Leader 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z But for the new adaptation of “Annie,” about a precocious orphan in search of her family, the director Will Gluck’s goal was to be sure the film felt modern. Clothes and Character: 'Annie' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z But in the opening episode it falls to a precocious 13-year-old named Rachel Crow to try to hold the viewing audience. Television Review: Simon Cowell?s ?X Factor? on Fox - Review 2011-09-20T22:46:56Z Before he left he was learned, almost precocious in his accomplishments. On Junipero Serra, soon to be sainted by Pope Francis 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z As Spiegel does in “Dry Land,” Byrne captures her characters’ occasional childishness, as well as their precocious maturity. ‘Nasty Women Rep’ grapples with sexuality, society 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z As the precocious teenager puts it, at one point, “Certainty is for sissies.” Review | ‘Sooner/Later’ weaves rom-com premise into bittersweet family portrait 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Her precocious reading, as a copyist and performer of these graphically illustrated works, creates a different sort of irony, giving her a sexual expertise which we understand, even as it mystifies her instructor. Sarah Waters: ‘The Handmaiden turns pornography into a spectacle – but it's true to my novel' 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z The precocious son of Greek-American bandleader Johnny Otis, Shuggie released two remarkable albums as a young man in the early 1970s. Shuggie Otis – review 2012-11-21T14:04:27Z It formed a protective blanket for precocious daffodils and hellebores, and it forced us all to slow down and look up from our screens. Turn your yard from swampy to swanky with these moisture-loving plants 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Mulligan, who received an Oscar nomination for her role as a precocious teen in An Education, is as appealing a comer as Fassbender. Sex and Shame in Venice: Michael Fassbender Is a Real X-Man 2011-09-05T09:45:00Z And if so, how might his precocious gift be nurtured and protected? Review: From Israel, ‘The Kindergarten Teacher,’ a Drama About Poetry and Obsession 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z See, this precocious golden girl from the Golden State had been on such a career roll that her trajectory looked like one continuous arrow pointed up. Tiler Peck, spinning in new directions with the Kennedy Center’s ‘Little Dancer’ But a sorrowing empathy also infuses “Three Hotels” along with a precocious sense that the emotions that bind people and drive them apart are not easily parsed. | 'Three Hotels': Marital Bankruptcy Filed in Faraway Places 2011-07-03T19:09:30Z With the backing of a major label, the precocious rapper plans to release new music in 2019, aiming to raise his profile outside of Seattle. Burien rapper Travis Thompson signs major-label deal with Epic Records 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z As a child, he developed a precocious interest in horse-track betting, which endeared him to his famously world-weary “Skin” co-star, Tallulah Bankhead. Dick Van Patten, who was a TV father on ‘Eight is Enough,’ dies at 86 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z A precocious student at Harvard University at the age of sixteen, he had his first short story published two years later. Tom Wolfe vs. John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving — and other timeless literary feuds 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z A precocious misfit from his earliest days at Frighten Elementary School, Mike dreams of scaring children as another boy would strive himself for major-league stardom. Pixar’s Monsters University: When Hairy Met Scary 2013-06-13T18:12:17Z Many of these cliffhangers depend on the infliction of imaginative horrors on women, precocious children, and four-legged animals, often with quite a light touch. Slate, New York Times to fantasy buffs: Grow up 2011-04-16T14:01:00Z Written when its composer was just 24, his “Messiah” still three decades in the future, “Agrippina” shows Handel the precocious master. Review: The Met Opera Is Handel’s House in ‘Agrippina’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z A precocious child, he quickly concluded that he was smarter than his peers, and spent his childhood frustrated and openly dismissive of many of those around him. Domingo Martinez Takes a Trip Back to South Texas 2012-11-09T23:27:32Z But her rugged father and refined mother wanted more than just a rural life for their precocious daughter, and that led to another toughening experience. An Intimate Portrait of Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman on the Supreme Court 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z When he was 14, a Harvard professor jokingly asked the precocious youngster if he was a “sub-sub-Freshman”. Time present and time past 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The wonder is that Neal's precocious craft makes Dominique a creature as plausible as she is passionate. Patricia Neal (1926-2010): A Life of Tragedy and Triumph 2010-08-11T08:40:00Z Betty was absent for nearly the entire episode, making room for an expanded role for everyone’s favorite precocious youngster, Sally Draper. ArtsBeat: 'Mad Men' Watch: A Fever Dream and Spooky Reality 2012-04-09T05:24:14Z As the young woman who, disguised as a page boy, serves as their go-between, Ms. Hall’s Viola exudes a precocious awareness of how fragile love’s hopes are. All Over London, Love Hurts 2011-02-23T10:27:47Z Stories about her precocious brilliance began to circulate. A Fresh Look at a Pioneering Black Voice of Revolutionary America 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, Mr. Habicht’s camera captures a host of colorful local characters: newspaper vendors, fishmongers and knifemakers as well as precocious children and philosophical pensioners. A New Documentary Looks at the Band Pulp 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z An argument for every precocious preteen to be armed with a professional video crew, a SoundCloud account and a fidget spinner. The 54 Best Songs of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z A precocious young cleric, he was made a bishop at 29 and set up a network of missions in India before traveling to Africa to do the same. Art Review: African Art Museum of the SMA Fathers, Tenafly, N.J. 2010-08-19T22:05:00Z In True Grit, by contrast, the loss of the appendage occurs rather late in the movie, when precocious Mattie Ross forfeits her arm as the result of a snake bite. 127 Hours and the one-armed box-office bandits 2011-02-24T22:15:01Z It comes from Bosker’s friend — and Sherpa — Morgan Harris, a precocious, brassily opinionated sommelier at New York’s Aureole. ‘Cork Dork’ Sniffs, Swills and Spits Through the World of Wine Experts 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z The three folios below, from different cycles, show how the Limbourgs adapted scenes from the Bible, and paintings by other artists to produce an astonishingly precocious work of art. Close Reading: The Belles Heures on Display at the Met 2010-03-31T23:05:00Z Such generous egalitarianism is new to Mr. Baitz’s work, which from his precocious New York debut with “The Film Society” in 1988 blazed with the moral indignation and rankling social conscience of an Arthur Miller. | 'Other Desert Cities': Drowning in Domestic Denial in the Sands of Palm Springs 2011-01-14T03:00:00Z This awkwardly adolescent comment could be a throwback to the late 1990s when Oberst emerged as a precocious, thin-skinned teenage troubadour. Bright Eyes ? review 2011-02-15T19:20:00Z Everybody seemed precocious, perhaps too trained at too young an age. Paul Thomas Anderson Goes Back to the Valley With ‘Licorice Pizza’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z For he absolutely pasted Alcott in a review of her 1875 novel “Eight Cousins,” bemoaning all of this business with precocious little girls. Review | The ultimate holiday gift: Rereading ‘Little Women’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z The news, reported in papers all over Italy, wasn't even remotely true: d'Annunzio – already displaying not only his precocious talents as a writer but also his gift for self-promotion – had sent the postcard himself. The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio – poet, seducer and preacher of war by Lucy Hughes-Hallett – review 2013-02-22T12:00:01Z With her ringlets, dimples and precocious talent, America's "Little Princess", charmed audiences during the 1930s Depression. Obituary: Shirley Temple 2014-02-11T12:58:42Z When Reginald L. Douglas was a precocious 6-year-old attending a summer theater camp on Long Island, the program’s founder noted his habit of asking detailed questions about every aspect of putting on a play. Reginald L. Douglas is appointed artistic director of Mosaic Theater Company 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z After talking with Piper, Clark decided to compile the playlist to fit the precocious child's affinity for dance, and began the show with tunes from Depeche Mode, Stereolab and New Order. St. Vincent's Mixtape Delivery Service aims to grab ears and hearts 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z The kids from Stranger Things kids kicked things off with a precocious rendition of “Uptown Funk” on the Emmys stage during the pre-show. See the Best Memes From the 2016 Emmy Awards 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Somewhere along the upward incline of his precocious youth, he had skipped a grade and was still only 21, tall and handsome. Sex in Silicon Valley: are millennials better at free love? 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z He entered Washington University in St. Louis when he was 15 and, as a precocious teenager already open to radical culture, began corresponding with the renegade writer Henry Miller. William Becker, Who Transformed Janus Films, Dies at 88 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z The cover of “Manson” pointedly features a photo of its subject not as Crazy Charlie, as he sometimes called himself, but as a smiling, suit-wearing, precocious little crook in his pimply years. Books Of the Times: A New Look at Charles Manson, by Jeff Guinn 2013-08-06T21:46:25Z The precocious blossoms are the collateral damage in this battle royal, along with our own notions of what constitutes spring, and when. A flower show offers some calm amid the storm 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z He was born in Chicago on April 1, 1949, and was reared in Tennessee and New York, and his precocious work as a writer won him a scholarship to the Fieldston School in the Bronx. Gil Scott-Heron, Voice of Black Culture, Dies at 62 2011-05-28T17:37:19Z The couple instilled in their children a quiet ambition and a precocious facility with language. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Here, and in the tale, it's the younger sister who is the rebel, naughtier and more precocious. Catherine Breillat: 'I love blood. It's in all my films' 2010-07-15T21:04:00Z Technical ability also figures into both artists’ precocious rise. Preview: Music of Porter Robinson, Madeon fit nicely on melodic end of EDM 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z For all his precocious expertise, though, Rachmaninoff is new to Mr. Trifonov. Daniil Trifonov, New to Rachmaninoff, but a Bold and Youthful Echo 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z A precocious actor and street performer, he started plotting his escape from Communist Poland at a young age. 2010-02-12T18:53:00Z Winehouse wrote her first song as a precocious 10-year-old, and learned to play guitar with James when she was a teenager. Amy Winehouse: songs in the key of life 2012-07-22T17:00:12Z Looking back on her childhood as a precocious tomboy, the narrator, Jean Louise Finch, better known as Scout, evoked the sultry summers and simple pleasures of an ordinary small town in Alabama. Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Dies at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Saint-Saëns’s Symphony in A, composed at 15, showed a precocious mastery of devices and themes borrowed outright from Mozart and Haydn. Critic’s Notebook: A Bard Music Festival Weekend of Saint-Saëns 2012-08-13T21:46:15Z Mounting a precocious challenge to the tyranny of adult power is a recurring sentiment of “Matilda,” as it relates to the cartoonish horrors of her home and school. Matilda, can you hear me? 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Only Hervey seems to have it figured out, mostly by sticking to the Nickelodeon school of precocious acting. Review | ‘Shrill’ and ‘Turn Up Charlie’ are passably cool TV shows that try too hard to be passably cool TV shows 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Klein was the precocious only child of two painters. Art Review: ?Yves Klein,? Retrospective at Hirschorn Museum 2010-06-03T21:58:00Z But he is a born communicator who brought youthful passion and precocious insight to his work. Opera Review: A Winning, Cautious, ?Don Carlo? at the Met 2010-11-23T12:39:00Z Jesse returns to Ohio at her request, and in their fraught reunion the little girl inside her cracks through the intellectually precocious shell. Movie Review: ‘Liberal Arts,’ From Josh Radnor 2012-09-13T22:06:30Z Pollan’s first book, the precocious Second Nature, was a profound meditation on humans’ place in the world, disguised as a book about rose care and lawn maintenance. Michael Pollan: Bad food is costing America its economic health 2013-12-08T19:00:00Z Yet a small, precocious resentment grew in me. A Husband for Home; a Wife for Away 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z In that addendum, Lyra complains that I made her a “precocious jerk,” but allows that she did not entirely dislike her portrayal. Great Draft, Dad. I Have Some Notes. 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z The rhymes obviously don’t approach the density and wit of Shakespeare, but the precocious cast currently in the city can make impromptu poetry sound like drunken Dr. Seuss. The Improvised Shakespeare Company’s Couplets Off the Cuff 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Even by Washington standards, this is a precocious fetus. Ian McEwan’s ‘Nutshell’: A tale of betrayal and murder as told by a fetus 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z He and Ms. Meitner marvel at how friendly and precocious their son is, traits neither of them possessed as children, and at his obsession with jellyfish and volcanoes. State of the Unions: From a Couple to Parents 2011-08-11T19:33:45Z At 41, Ms. Thomas might be called a precocious late bloomer. Art Review: ‘Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe,’ at Brooklyn Museum 2012-09-27T22:04:12Z This week House treats a precocious 16-year-old boy who wants to be a clown, which is fitting because House is nothing if not a clown with advanced skills. House Watch: The Clowning Around Edition 2011-11-15T15:00:08Z The precocious soon-to-be sixth-grader says she longs to get back to the routine of grabbing a chai before drama class and watching tourists gawking around Times Square on her way to work. B'way to hold drive for sick 'Lion King' kid star 2010-07-22T09:31:00Z But Napolitano provides respite from the emotional desolation of “Dear Edward” by writing in moments of extreme tenderness, specifically in her portrayal of Edward’s relationship with his precocious pre-teen neighbor, Shay. 7 must-read novels to kick off 2020 right 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z “Smile and apply on your cheeks,” Ms. Palermo urges in the singsong voice of a precocious 4-year-old. On the Runway Blog: Such a Doll 2013-05-31T20:26:55Z The resurfacing of documents recording the precocious Mattia Bortoloni’s role in Villa Cornaro’s decoration began to stir interest in the frescoes and their author in the second half of the 20th century. Review: A Forgotten Master's Irreverence 2010-05-28T16:00:00Z And their daughters are brilliantly written, precocious kindergartners who feel like actual children, funny and honest and two distinct people despite being children and twins. The Latest Romance Novels: Firefighters, Buff Male Nannies, Astronauts and More 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z One of those youthful performers is Cole Sitilides, who embodies the play’s central character: 15-year-old Eugene, who periodically comments — with precocious and sometimes wisecracking sagacity — on the action. Review | Young local actors impress in ‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’ at Theater J 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z In a brief Q. & A. with Anderson following the film’s début, Kent Jones, the festival’s director, joked that he’d heard Greenwood compared to Schroeder, the precocious, hunched pianist from Peanuts cartoons. Jonny Greenwood Surrenders to the Drone 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Ms. Caruso, the precocious teenage actress who was an incandescent presence in the David Bowie musical “Lazarus,” lacks the devilish, deadpan piquancy that Winona Ryder brought to the same role in the film. Review: In ‘Beetlejuice,’ the Afterlife Is Exhausting 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z And when you do that with this show, you notice an apparent contradiction: Dennis was one precocious kid, and yet he never seemed to get any smarter. When the Boy Next Door Was Evil 2011-03-06T01:44:59Z I didn't produce a work of precocious genius, but I did get myself started as a TV hack. The parent trap: art after children 2010-08-01T20:30:00Z And there is an extra dash of Campion – her daughter, Alice Englert, a rising star in her own right, plays the rebellious and precocious teenager Mary. ‘Nicole Kidman asked for a part. Then it was fun to write a sequel’ 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z His younger brothers are also precocious but in different ways. How a small school for gifted kids in the D.C. exurbs gets big results 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z It's really about a precocious man who lives in two worlds and finds himself depressed by the artificiality of everyday reality. Werner Herzog: a killer at the table 2010-06-22T20:31:00Z Deric McCabe, who’s younger still, is charming as the supernaturally precocious Charles Wallace, but he struggles to recite his intricate lines. ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Review: Disney Trips on a Tesseract 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z He showed a precocious talent in music and by 12 was studying musical scores and hoping to meet Stravinsky. Robert Craft, conductor and longtime Stravinsky confidant, dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Shawn Christensen’s “Curfew” is a sensitive exploration of the strife and reconciliation of a suicidal New Yorker and his abused sister, a single mother with a precocious daughter. Movie Review: ‘The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013’ Anthology 2013-01-31T22:57:57Z “Charade” starred Hepburn as a precocious socialite whose husband has been murdered, and Grant — who appeared in four Hitchcock films — as a mysterious man who may or may not be helping her. Stanley Donen, director of ‘Singin’ in the Rain,’ dies at 94 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Roberta Smith called Ms. Marten, then 27, a “precocious British artist” who “works in a light, frothy mode that might be called postmodern rococo.” Multimedia Artist Helen Marten Wins Turner Prize 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Her character, Ginger, is the child of Bohemian British parents who longs, above all, to be taken seriously, to grow from a precocious schoolgirl into a grown-up poet. The Carpetbagger: Box Office Heroines 2012-12-07T15:00:34Z But all three create aesthetic realms that fuse with personal experiences and philosophical ideas in a sort of preternaturally precocious leap of abstraction. “An Elephant Sitting Still,” Reviewed: A Young Chinese Filmmaker’s Masterly Portrait of Political and Intimate Despair 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Her songs, which she writes herself with an array of young producers, are similarly candid and precocious. Halsey, With ‘Badlands,’ Is Moving Fast to Share a Secret Language 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Patrick Fugit—the precocious child reporter from Almost Famous all grown up—stars as a man searching for the reason he’s been suffering from supernatural demonic possessions his entire life. 13 New Shows You Need to Watch This Summer 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z This devastatingly tender novel is about a precocious 9-year-old boy grieving the loss of his father, who died during 9/11. Perspective | How 9/11 altered the fiction landscape in 13 novels 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z As a young person, I was a constant, precocious reader, as he had been — binging on Dickens at 11, Shakespeare at 12; that kind of thing. James Baldwin: Pessimist, Optimist, Hero 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Some precocious kids “figure things out themselves,” he says, but quite often the parents were working on letters and sounds in their daily storybook reading. Can babies read? 2012-09-12T16:08:00Z I was a fast, voracious and precocious reader as a child. Anthony Bourdain: By the Book 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Sometimes a precocious youngster brings to the table intriguing news of her own burgeoning generation. Art Review: Trisha Baga at the Whitney, Greene Naftali and MoMA PS1 2012-12-27T22:07:57Z “I was precocious in school and skipped two grades,” he told the Toronto Star. Alan Thicke, mainstay of TV comedy and star of sitcom ‘Growing Pains,’ dies at 69 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z That diagnosis of aristocratic disdain must have been a gift to a precocious 12-year-old. In Stories From an Argentine Surrealist, Circles of Madness and Violence 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z In her 1818 novel “Frankenstein, or a Modern Prometheus,” the precocious 19-year old Mary Shelley, wife of famed Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, wanted her book to terrify but also incite serious debate. Hopelessly romantic: ‘Frankenstein’ at Book-It 2014-02-07T21:39:52Z It captures the intertwined relationships of residents in this hermetic world, as seen from the unfiltered point of view of a feisty and precocious child. In Harper Lee’s Novels, a Loss of Innocence as Children and Again as Adults 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Even though she is just a substitute, Hannah shows real enthusiasm discussing “Oedipus Rex,” that old high school chestnut, with her precocious charges. 'Girls' Recap: An Awkward Date Night for Hannah 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z After a precocious start on radio and stage in India, Mr. Jaffrey settled in New York in the late 1950s with ambitions of conquering Broadway. Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-born actor in British and Bollywood fare, dies at 86 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z And he is masterful at exploring the emotional complexities of family and community through the eyes of a precocious youth. Ivan Doig's story of a bright boy, a Montana bar and a buried past 2012-08-23T18:49:03Z Then, like a precocious child, Sharon suddenly turned serious and wise. 'Hopscotch,' dubbed the 'asphalt opera,' hits the streets of L.A. 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z As a precocious 15-year-old, he enrolled in the University of Chicago, spending his free hours taking in the city’s heady mix of folk, bebop jazz and classical music. ‘Words Without Music’: A look inside Philip Glass’s creative genius 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z In Maria Popova’s strange and lovely new book, “Figuring,” we learn about the precocious Maria Mitchell. Maria Popova Weaves Together Stories of Human Ingenuity 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Hailing from Jackson, Mississippi, Thomas’ previous claim to fame was, by her own admission, an article about her precocious rapping skills in the now-defunct teen magazine Right On! “The Hate U Give”: Angie Thomas’ sensational debut novel should be required reading for clueless white people 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z From smart toys and artful wallpaper to pint-size furnishings with precocious style, AD picks 16 items that will lend a dash of panache to any child's room. A Charming Children’s Furnishings Shop Opens in Dallas 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The novel is the story of Hurtle Duffield, a precocious boy born into poverty and bought for £500 by a society family. The Lost Man Booker prize 2010-04-01T07:00:00Z And yet this precocious prophet of the modern age does not conform to our ideas of unalloyed progress. At the Met Museum, the Grand Enigmas of Delacroix 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z "Dirty Bomb" tells the story of Mirccu, a public relations executive with one last chance to prove herself, but faced with the client from hell - a demanding, precocious 15-year-old teen star. Finding love and anarchy at Helsinki film festival 2011-09-16T15:32:08Z The National may be precious, but they are not precocious. The National – review 2013-06-27T13:57:16Z The precocious Ms. Della Femina was a fashion upstart who that summer ran a trunk show with a friend, who had diabetes, to raise money for research. Of All the Taco Bells in All the Towns ... 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Arriving at the theatre, she told the selectors with precocious self-possession that she had a large repertoire and intended to perform all of it; they of course succumbed. Marina Poplavskaya: 'I am a person of extraordinary ability' 2011-04-09T23:05:35Z How is her relationship with her precocious daughter JuJu going? How “The Chair” needs to do better by Sandra Oh 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Mr. O’Brien’s precocious career had been spent almost entirely in prestigious comedy institutions, like The Harvard Lampoon, “Saturday Night Live” and “The Simpsons.” Critic’s Notebook: Gee, Conan, That Joke Seems Familiar 2012-11-09T23:47:19Z What is perfectly acceptable to the parent of a precocious third child may seem like insanity to the parent of a shy, tentative first-born. Motherlode Blog: Negotiating My 13-Year-Old's Social Life 2012-01-04T17:06:21Z He had already published “Crazy Pavements,’’ considered the first BYT novel, and the self-consciously precocious “Twenty-Five,’’ with its first-hand snapshots of Churchill, King Constantine and Noel Coward. | Beverley Nichols 2011-01-12T14:00:17Z Like any precocious child, Caesar will learn from, outgrow and defy his doting, fearful "father." Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Chimpan-tastic! 2011-08-04T16:05:00Z At its best, and most fully realized, it feels like a program made by unusually sophisticated, precocious children for their friends. A Comedy Special for Kids That Gets Their Dark Sense of Humor 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z I think it’s great that her 9-year-old son asks precocious questions, like what the adaptive purpose of dying might be. Review: ‘Catastrophic Happiness,’ a Comedy of Manners About Bumpy Child-Rearing 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Estranged from the family, he lives on an Indian reservation, and right at the edge of uneasy-making thematic territory, with his dutiful Native American wife and their annoyingly precocious son. “Yellowstone,” Reviewed: Kevin Costner Rasps an Ode to Cowboy Toughness 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z But he soon crossed paths with Spielberg, a director less than a year his senior, whose eruption of precocious virtuosity was perhaps the most dazzling Hollywood had seen since Orson Welles. Richard Dreyfuss: 'I was a bad guy for a number of years' 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z There is a precocious child, but he’s known as David, and he’s not Jewish nor is he graced with any unusual shine of divinity. Review | J.M. Coetzee’s ‘The Schooldays of Jesus’ raises more questions than it answers 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z The turning point in his career came in 1965 when he met Tim Rice, whom his agent had recommended as a potential lyricist for a project the precocious 17-year-old was beginning to work on. Andrew Lloyd Webber, Hotheaded Perfectionist 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z One features Noah Jupe as the fresh-faced child actor Otis, a precocious talent, in the dubious care of his alcoholic, bitter father, James. ‘Honey Boy’ Review: Shia LaBeouf Lets Himself Off the Hook 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Yeon, equally precocious, designed a small but influential group of houses inspired by the landscapes and vernacular architecture of his home state. A new look at the architecture of John Yeon, unsung master of Pacific Northwest modernism 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z It's a succession of genre pieces – novelette, minuet, romanza and gavotte – but apart from a precocious fluency, none of them reveals much of the future composer. Britten: String Quartet No 2; Three Divertimenti; etc 2010-08-26T21:34:00Z Power’s own precocious intelligence allowed entrance into rarefied circles of publishing and academia. After a Long and Painful Absence, Writing Her Way Home Again 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z The story they tell zigzags a bit on its way from an unhappy, privileged childhood through precocious success to disbarment and death. ‘Where’s My Roy Cohn?’ Review: A Fixer’s Progress 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z He attended Leighton Park Quaker school near Reading, Berkshire, and was showing precocious compositional skills in his teens. Sir Richard Rodney Bennett 2012-12-26T18:24:33Z Although they are advanced, they are not precocious spring bloomers; they are plants that are programmed to flower in the winter but are usually stymied by the volatile weather of the Mid-Atlantic. Perspective | An unsettlingly warm winter unlocks flowering treasures 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z "To Kill A Mockingbird" was adapted into a critically acclaimed 1962 movie, starring Gregory Peck as the righteous lawyer Atticus Finch and Mary Badham as his precocious daughter Scout. Is Harper Lee's new book headed for Hollywood? 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z He’s also becoming aware of the bruised lives all around, a burden of perception that fascinates and terrifies him, while giving his narration an eerie quality of precocious insight. A powerful new entry in the literature of race in America 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z The initial reviews were those of a precocious, attention-hungry beginner: too many words, too much personality, too much hyperbole and too much look-at-me meanness. Henry James, a Poohbah Who Painted With Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z One of the festival's more entertaining and unusual openers, "Mabul" revolves around a precocious boy's bar mitzvah. Seattle Jewish Film Festival kicks off with entertaining 'Mabul' 2012-03-09T20:50:11Z The brilliantly named Kyla La Grange is one of those precocious talents that everyone secretly fears, reportedly starting to play music at the age of five before forming and breaking up bands with alarming regularity. New music: Kyla La Grange ? Walk Through Walls 2011-01-14T12:25:43Z Hollywood biopics tend to be incredibly formulaic: precocious talent achieves success against the odds, only to be subsumed by druggy excess, followed by downfall and then redemption. Straight Outta Hollywood: how hip-hop saved the biopic 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z At least, it was not like this for Michael Jackson when he ascended, in the nineteen-seventies, transitioning from precocious tween to full-fledged entertainment icon. Spike Lee’s New Michael Jackson Movie Honors the Artistry of the King of Pop 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Here was the kid next door who professed his love of mom, weed and soul-dipped “dusties” soul tunes, a precocious rapper with big ambitions who ignored the violent clichés coursing through Chicago drill music. Album review: Chance the Rapper, 'Acid Rap' 2013-05-10T18:44:00Z A precocious child fascinated with architecture, Florence was virtually adopted in the 1930s by Eliel Saarinen and his wife, Loja. Florence Knoll Bassett, 101, Designer of the Modern American Office, Dies 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Her need to control, her precocious sexualised behaviour, her anger and her desire to humiliate would all be sounding loud warning signals to me. A girl put my daughter through hell, but her mother won’t listen | Dear Mariella 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z More than the first True Grit, the new one emphasises Mattie's precocious, almost obsessive preoccupation with the law. True Grit: Rooster to the rescue 2011-02-06T21:31:00Z The children, ghostly and precocious, are not especially childlike, and the series resists sentimentalizing their innocence, giving the sense that we are imbibing some kind of stark fable. “My Brilliant Friend,” Reviewed: A Prada Ad for Working-Class Gloom, but with Shades of Humble Tenderness 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z “I was precocious enough to watch the news and read the papers, and I can remember October 1956, the simultaneous crisis in Hungary and Suez, very well,” he told the magazine The Progressive in 1997. Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011: Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 ? Obituary 2011-12-16T06:27:29Z Singing with confidence, power and purpose, with both freshness and maturity, Ms. Davidsen, just 32, staked a precocious claim to the great Wagner and Strauss roles that require equal parts youthful flexibility and sheer strength. Review: A Young Soprano Meets the Hype at the Met Opera 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Or maybe kids aren't as cinematically precocious as I thought they were. 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z Moore’s voice may be the overarching unifier, her lithe coo grown in intensity in places from its precocious lovey-dovey warmth on Cape Dory. For the band Tennis, Being Cute Isn?t Just a Gimmick 2012-02-15T13:00:21Z “I was effeminate, I was fey, I was precocious,” Stuart said. How ‘Shuggie Bain’ Became This Year’s Breakout Debut 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z In my country, childhood passes quickly Everything is precocious, the people and the plants. My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Tough as life was at Haworth, the Brontë siblings — including the relatively pampered son, Branwell — mostly thrived there, united by their precocious literary and artistic pursuits. Unrequited love fuels the 'Fiery Heart' biography of Charlotte Brontë 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z "She is very precocious. I think she'll be a great big sister but there may be a learning curve. She definitely likes attention!" Jenna Bush Hager and daughter Mila announce 'baby sissy' on the way 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z For all Noe’s wide-eyed goofiness, he’s a young man scarred early by grief, which may account for his precocious sympathy, his ability to resonate with the quiet sorrow in others. Review | ‘This Is Happiness’ is an unforgettable trip to a lost Irish village 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z But in his early, vigorously cartoonish paintings of rudimentary symbols and stick figures he showed a precocious understanding of painting as avant-gardist provocation. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Decades later Ms. Marcovicci, who turned 62 on Thursday, is still dispensing high romantic drama with the intensity of a precocious child forever in the thrall of Hollywood and Broadway fantasies. Music Review: Keeping Torch Songs Ablaze 2010-11-21T22:34:00Z There’s a curious sensation to realizing that Paul McCartney — the lad of lads, the Beatles precocious imp, Fab Macca Wacky Thumbs Aloft — is turning 75 years old. Paul McCartney Turns 75 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z He's the preppy schoolteacher who gets a bit too close to his kids; she's the precocious pupil, hormones jangling. Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen ? review 2011-08-17T18:50:01Z He was a really precocious kid – but very interesting. 'Jennifer Aniston cried in my lap': the inside story of Friends 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z The enormously popular Chinese social media video app is a colossal repository of viral comedy, virtuoso dance routines, daredevil stunts and talent-show theatrics, most of which seem to be performed by precocious teens. Lights, Camera, TikTok 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z No other rock ’n’ roll career has had anything like the trajectory of Chilton’s — from precocious frontman to indie pioneer to dropout and, finally, to sage. ‘A Man Called Destruction,’ About Alex Chilton 2014-03-23T20:31:53Z And, as if to intentionally make a pretty dour episode worse, The King, the Widow and Rick saw fit to introduce an annoying and precocious kid. The Walking Dead: season eight, episode five recap – The King, the Widow and Rick 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z David Mazouz is great as the young Bruce, and manages to seem both haughtily precocious and deeply damaged. 'Gotham' Recap: 'Batman' Before Batman 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z José Martí, a precocious intellectual and rebel, resisted US meddling and symbolised Cuba's fight against Spain's domination. Spain celebrates Latin American liberation with bicentenary films 2011-03-14T19:27:41Z The precocious Plath was singled out for star treatment by the editors, who recognized her brilliance but did not suspect her dark side. Cultural Studies: Seeing Sylvia Plath With New Eyes - Cultural Studies 2013-05-03T22:54:52Z We were precocious, booking our own shows, opening for larger groups. Kings Go Forth transcends trends 2011-06-16T15:26:37Z His mother, a singer, encouraged his precocious talent for music with piano lessons — and did the same for his younger sister, Frances Walker-Slocum, who became the first black woman granted tenure at Oberlin College. A Composer’s Final Work Contains ‘Visions’ of an American Master 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Amma and her precocious mean-girl peers flit through Wind Gap on roller skates, with their wheels rumbling like they’re looking for trouble; at times, they flicker into view almost subliminally, like portents. Amy Adams Unravels in “Sharp Objects” 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z The Quarry is narrated by Kit, a typically precocious and alienated Banksian teenager, who finds people stupidly predictable and yet infuriatingly random. Iain Banks: the final interview 2013-06-15T07:07:55Z Shuggie is precocious and sensitive, making him a target for school bullies. Douglas Stuart Wins Booker Prize for ‘Shuggie Bain’ 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z But the constantly self-doubting Berlin, whose first wife died just five months after their wedding, was “precocious in many things, including sorrow,” Kaplan writes. The Man Who Was American Music 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Lizzie narrates the book from adulthood, but her spirited, headstrong perspective is that of the precocious child she was. Review: ‘Man at the Helm,’ Nina Stibbe’s Comic First Novel 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z As Dawkins narrates the story with rough and self-deprecating humor, you understand both the charisma and business savvy that fueled his precocious success and the arrogance and naïveté that contributed to his downfall. Starved for Sports? Here Are 5 Options That Aren’t N.B.A. Classic 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Lieberher, who appeared in “St. Vincent,” more than holds his own as a wise-beyond-his-years kid who never seems cloying or precocious. “Parenting isn’t safe, it’s challenging”: Clive Owen on building trust with his young “Confirmation” co-star 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z It is always tempting to embellish the promise of those who die young, but even while she was alive, Ms. Keegan drew praise as a precocious talent. Marina Keegan’s ‘Independents’ at the Fringe 2012-08-19T03:40:26Z And Ehnes joins other north American string players in a fizzing account of the glorious Octet, written by the wildly precocious Mendelssohn at the age of 16 – without a trace of teenage angst. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto/Octet ? review 2010-11-21T00:06:00Z The only child of the director Bryan Gordon and the writer and director Jessie Nelson, she grew up in Los Angeles, a precocious presence on her parents’ sets and at their dinner parties. In ‘The Bear,’ Molly Gordon Is More Than the Girl Next Door 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z As a result, most of them have become even more blithe, confident and precocious than some of their elders would have wished. With The Last Song, Miley Cyrus leaves her fans to their fate 2010-05-04T09:00:00Z Her years as a precocious teenager were spent going to raves and sneaking into legendary parties like NASA. Up Close: Chrissie Miller of the Fashion Line Sophomore 2012-01-04T20:14:59Z And Stevie Wonder made his first appearance on a country music awards show, joining Hunter Hayes for a performance by two guys who got their start as precocious teens. No one more surprised than Luke Bryan by ACMs win 2013-04-08T12:57:13Z Stella’s precocious black paintings announced the arrival of a major artist. Kerry James Marshall's paintings insist on black self-representation 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Master storyteller Doig returns to 1960 Montana for this moving coming-of-age story of a precocious boy, his bachelor, bartender father, and an unexpected revelation that threatens to upend both their lives. 25 best books of 2012 2012-12-13T00:31:12Z They lived in a book-filled home on New York's Upper West Side, where Marco, aged eight, lolled on the carpet reading Shakespeare: "I was the definition of 'precocious'." James Lasdun reviews The Scientists: A Family Romance by Marco Roth 2013-02-16T09:01:01Z And there is joy in make-believe in “Lost Children Archive,” which gains much of its wry charisma from the playacting of its precocious child characters — both those riding atop trains and those riding in cars. Valeria Luiselli Traces the Youngest Casualties of the Border Crisis 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Ever since he was a teenager in Far Rockaway, Queens — a precocious kid with an artistic bent and a propensity for tinkering — Rammellzee wanted to make letters into weapons. 29 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z These days, you’ll probably find them singing along with the precocious teenagers of “Glee.” Riff: How Football Players Got Trounced by ?Glee? 2011-06-03T12:00:00Z For the men in Goffin lyrics, women were often precocious temptresses: little girls with dangerous charms. Remembering Gerry Goffin, the '60s Poet of Teen Heartbreak 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z Her angelic Barbie face, her long blonde hair and precocious flirtations make Amma the sort of girl mainstream America prizes, the standard of beauty and femininity. The “Sharp Objects” finale and the dangers of white women’s tears 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z No wonder Cookie, a precocious but improbably innocent girl who brings to mind centuries of fictional portraits of burgeoning artists, wants to grow up to be a rapper. Theater Review: ?Hurt Village,? by Katori Hall 2012-02-28T03:00:00Z Bailey's subjects are a mostly charismatic bunch: warm, chatty, guileless and often amusing, but rarely precocious or theatrical. 'I Am Eleven' an enjoyable portrait of kids on cusp of adolescence 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Fox is based on Adlon’s life — she’s a divorced single mom with a British mother and three precocious daughters — but many characters are atypical of regular comedies. ‘Magical’ ending for ‘Better Things’ fifth and final season 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z I was precocious, skinny as a French green bean and with a mouth filled with bad country grammar. Despite my mama’s secret shame, she was the smartest person I knew 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Hayes will be joined by another performer who got his start as a precocious teen - Stevie Wonder, making his first appearance on the show. Men of country dominate lineup at ACM Awards 2013-04-07T13:24:17Z Growing up, Krantz was a precocious student at New York’s exclusive Birch Wathen school, once describing herself as the youngest, smartest and shortest girl in her class. Steamy romance novelist Judith Krantz dies at 91 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z What she wants, in her precocious way, is not a return to normalcy, but a modicum of predictability. A Debut Novel Sees Divorce Through the Eyes of a Child 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z In the early years of his fame, DiCaprio was candid with journalists, coming off as a charming prankster and precocious cut-up. 'Titanic' made Leonardo DiCaprio a Hollywood heartthrob. He's been avoiding it ever since 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Villa Ramírez tracked down the precocious kid and invited him to hang out with working biologists. This Mexican biologist is fighting to preserve his country’s biodiversity—and his own legacy 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z The only person she can turn to is Christopher, who, though precocious, is still an unformed and clearly troubled teenager with more intellect than experience or judgment. Review: At Pasadena Playhouse, 'The Sound Inside' thrillingly unfurls like a series of puzzle boxes 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z |
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