Word: debut
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TIME: JULY 10, 11 (DEBUT...
...other words, Streisand and Broadway are a perfect match. She launched her career in 1962 with a debut in the musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale and springboarded to the movies after her starring role in 1964's Funny Girl. In 1985 she scored an enormous success with The Broadway Album, a collection of songs by such composers as Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein. Her non-Broadway hits have never been very credible, and they've proved to have the shelf life of sugary foodstuffs on convenience-store shelves. It's hard to listen to You Don't Bring...
Kinsley, who had been writing for the New Republic since he was 25 (he is now 42), became a TIME essayist largely because he found the thought of writing for an audience roughly 50 times the size of his regular one irresistible. Before his debut, though, he was a bit dubious about this magazine's ways; he commented quizzically on our practice of distilling vast numbers of words into the tiny percentage that see print. Now he is part of the process: a recent Essay he wrote about taxes somehow never appeared. Is he bothered? "Goes with the territory...
TIME: JUNE 23, 8 P.M. E.S.T., CBS (DEBUT...
...three years needed for testing and approval of RU 486 could delay its debut until the middle of the next presidential-election campaign. And as Jerry Falwell is happy to conjecture, "I think RU 486 will be a major issue in the campaign if it is not yet distributed." His goal, he says, will be to elect a leader "with different morals than the President." The lifers will talk about death that hides in the palm of a hand; the choicers about empowerment a woman can hold between two fingers. Although the advent of RU 486 could greatly change...