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When the Communists took over Czechoslovakia in 1948, Teige was first hailed as a progressive, then denounced for not toeing the party line even though he was never a card-carrying member of the Communist Party.

9 p.m., Northsix, 66 North Sixth Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718) 599-5103, $15. (Sinagra) D'GARY (Tonight) It has been a while since the Malagasy guitarist D'Gary was first hailed as the low-key prodigy from Madagascar's back country whose self-taught style involved exquisitely detailed flourishes over unorthodox rhythms, but his approach remains distinctive.

Such progress has been predicted for a long time: Nasri was first hailed as the New Zidane way back in 2004, the year he won the Under-17 European Championship with France before making his first-team debut with OM (who'd signed him when he was nine).

But then I remember that he was only 29 when he publicly lost his marbles in the Suvretta House Hotel, only 24 when he premiered Jeux and The Rite of Spring in the same season, only 23 when he performed as the faun, and only 20 when he was first hailed as the god of the dance in Paris".

After the Crimean War Tolstoy resigned from the army and was at first hailed by the literary world of St . Petersburg

The driver, Klever Sailema, 44, was at first hailed as a hero after he took the baby, Daniella, to a Queens firehouse in February.

When plastic was first invented, it was hailed as a miracle material.

When Bernard Schlink's novel "The Reader" was first published, it was hailed as an important addition to this distinctly German genre.

When the investment was first announced, it was hailed as a brilliant way to grab a stake of more than 9percentt in a well-known private equity firm.

When Mr. O'Neill was first appointed, he was hailed for his successful tenure at Alcoa, where, like Mr. McNamara at Ford, he was prized for his humanistic concern with safety as well as his can-do resuscitation of a sinking bottom line.

When Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, the story of a love affair between two cowboys, starring the late Heath Ledger, was first released in 2005, it was hailed as the first high profile Hollywood exploration of male homosexuality.