Word: debut
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...Angola's Olympic debut was unlikely, consider those of Lithuania and Croatia. Neither team existed last year. Their countries, new to the conjugation of nations, exist only perilously and amid great hardship. But on the court, Lithuania and Croatia do honor to their homelands. Lithuania is led by Marciulionis, whose favorite painter is Hieronymus Bosch. Most N.B.A. players do not have a favorite painter or would not know Bosch from Beethoven, but they all know Marciulionis. This past season as the Golden State Warrior's sixth man, he was fourth in the N.B.A. in points scored for minutes played...
...under less pressure in Barcelona. His wife Barbara was due to give birth to their second child only two days after the opening ceremonies in Albertville last February, and he faced a harrowing round-trip journey to attend the birth. Happily, the McVeas' son Kyle decided to make his debut a bit early and was born (joining daughter Elyse, 2) four days before the Games...
...debut speech before Israel's parliament as the country's new Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin suggested that Arab heads of state come to Jerusalem to talk peace. Actually, Arab leaders have long had a standing invitation to do that, and Rabin was just repeating it -- predictably, to no avail. But the Prime Minister followed up with an extraordinary appeal to his own countrymen to shake off the siege mentality that until now has made the concessions required for peace too scary for them to contemplate. "No longer is it true," Rabin said, "that 'the whole world is against...
...Victor Frankenstein (Barret Oliver), his 10-year-old master, determines to revive him using a microwave and a toaster. FRANKENWEENIE sounds like pure Tim Burton, and it is. The 27-min. Disney comedy, made in 1984 and now released as a home video, marked the debut of the director of the Batman blockbusters. This ripe tale has intimations of Burton's Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands: the undead and a wild child sundered in suburbia. But Burton's Batmanic surrealism is plenty evident here. The pet cemetery is adorned with fire-hydrant and dog-biscuit tombstones, and the community unites...
...fine print of an editor's note in the debut issue of the Harvard Review wryly states that the journal is not available in "microfilm, fiche, CD-ROM or cranial implant...