Word: debut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nutcracker one day, John Curry's Ice Dancing another, plus the usual shopping and partying. After Mother Janna heads home, Actress Liv and her daughter Linn, 11, will get down to more serious business. Linn is bound for school in Connecticut while Liv rehearses for her musical theater debut, playing the loving matriarch in a remake of John Van Druten's comedy I Remember Mama. The play about a Norwegian immigrant family in San Francisco, which spawned a long-running TV series, will open on Broadway in the spring. "Richard Rodgers has written eight songs for me," says...
ONCE, CHAKA KHAN sang lead for a band called Rufus. Now, winding through an adventurous debut solo album, she continues to display her special technique of fusing her voice with loud instruments, but this time there is something solid and infinitely dynamic happening...
Sporting a patient offense and an aggressive, hustling, man-to-man defense, the Harvard basketball team last night manhandled previously unbeaten Dartmouth, 87-81, winning the year's Ivy League debut in front of 1000 spectators...
...York City, where Tut opens on Dec. 20, at the Metropolitan Museum, 900,000 tickets were snapped up in 5½ days in mid-September, and the line at one point stretched 20 blocks. At its U.S. debut in Washington, the collection drew 835,000 visitors, more than the entire population of the District of Columbia. It attracted an even bigger crowd in New Orleans (870,595), and was credited with bringing in $75 million in revenue. The record for the U.S. tour so far is held by Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History: 1,349,724 visitors...
...next morning, nineteen girls and nineteen fathers arrive at the Youngbloods' Club, to hang up their debut gowns and to practice the Presentation in the ballroom. Picking their way among trails of plastic cedar, they listen as a sleepy-eyed Youngblood explains the procedure: the announcer will call out each girl's name; holding a bouquet of white roses, she will then ascend the platform, curtsey to the audience, then march down the hall and latch back onto her father's arm. They run through it once, simulating the rose bouquets with short ropes of the plastic cedar...