Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...this pianistic New Kid on the Block? For the past several years, rumors of Kissin's prowess have been filtering out of the Soviet Union. At 12, he played both Chopin piano concertos on the same program in Moscow, his home city. There were sightings in Berlin, Budapest and Belgrade. About two years ago, Herbert von Karajan gave him the kiss of recognition by inviting the lad to play the Tchaikovsky concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic. The major record labels came running...
...about his nephew Solon Sadoway's progress. "This is a hit-or-miss effort," he says. "If he doesn't learn something, nobody notices." "If you need a license to cut hair," argues Donald Bemis, state supervisor of public instruction in Michigan, "you should have one to mold a kid's mind...
Sizer said that state governments should have little influence on what curriculum is actually taught in the classroom. "I believe the state has no business deciding what kind of history my kid learns," he said...
...than any of his family or friends can imagine but also an interior life richer than even its owner recognizes. Rabbit's undiscriminating curiosity takes in everything, from old songs on the car radio to the crammed titles on a cineplex marquee: HONEY I SHRUNK BATMAN GHOSTBUST II KARATE KID III DEAD POETS GREAT BALLS. These are the fragments he innocently shores against his ruin, the kind of details that historians millenniums hence will cherish. Even his loopiest private opinions carry the whiff of theological profundity. Months into the Bush Administration, Rabbit misses Reagan: "The powerful thing about...
Yeah, he's right, I guess. Bill Buckner tookresponsibility for getting nutmegged in the WorldSeries. Jimmy Swaggart took responsibility for hissins before the Lord. Ronald Reagan tookresponsibility for Iran-gate. Well, at least heshould have. And I even recall a scrawny kid namedGrunwald blaming himself for blowing his highschool soccer team's 26-game winning streak bymissing an unmissable breakaway, but that'sanother column altogether...