This year, the conference bubble has a precocious off-Broadway rival in the form of Momentum's own festival, which goes under the banner of The World Transformed, and sports amusing innovations such as an "actor in residence".
HH (Rough Trade) Laura Marling proved that her startling debut, Alas I Cannot Swim, was not just a precocious one-off when she followed it with last year's I Speak Because I Can.
Donoghue's ventriloquism, with its precocious and off-kilter language, seemed to me to beautifully render the way children grapple with words and to mimic the way meaning shifts constantly as a child's comprehension of things expands.
Ernestine Holly was born in 1915 to a prominent Miami family, and moved to New York City when she was 5. Precocious on and off the dance floor, she graduated from high school at 14 and found work as a dancer, touring Europe with Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway in the 1930's.
STEFANIA OWEN 'Running Wilde' Who among us has not committed to swearing off precocious children on half-hour network comedies as if they were corn dogs or bourbon?
And he proved to be as precocious on the court as he was immature off it.
To show off his precocious bulk and fecund potential, he starts off every morning here with a spray wash, blow dry and comb down.
For Dr. Furman, red flags are raised by "precocious daters" who pair off before their peers, and by "uneven, inequitable relationships," in which one partner is controlling and the other dependent.
Recalling something of Tracey Emin mixed with David Shrigley, it's a chance to show off the precocious artistic promise of Harper, but also emphasises the #familycomesfirst culture of brand Beckham.
McKinley gives Jay a foil, an editor on the Metro desk named Ben (the fantastic Tim Hopper), who has a discerning jeweller's squint, and who dares to defy the powers that be by accusing Jay of fabricating his pieces and insisting that the precocious reporter be taken off his watch.
She can cry on cue to make him feel bad and toss off a precocious wisecrack to lighten the mood and impress him with her inherited musical chops.
