Word: debut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Portishead's groundbreaking debut album, Dummy (1994), along with producer-rapper Tricky's Maxinquaye (1995), helped define the nascent genre of trip-hop, an arty European variant of hip-hop characterized by dreamy lyrics and lounging, lulling song structures. Portishead is another stellar work. While Dummy's sound was sweetened with recognizable melodic flavors drawn from R. and B. and gospel, the new album is stranger, more unsettling, more sour. Vocalist Beth Gibbons' voice is distorted on many of the tracks, stretched thin and left floating high and parched over shards of melody and jagged bits of rhythm. One song...
DIED. ARTHUR TRACY, 98, radio's sentimental Street Singer, who peddled his wares (remember Marta?) on the airwaves of the 1930s; in New York City. Tracy's identity was kept secret when he made his radio debut...
After TD's full-scale debut here in Week 8, L.I. Slim has emerged as the swami of the moment, posting an impressive 9-2 mark with one to play. Kansas City comes in at 6-5, better than Paul Maguire but good only for second place in this space. Both have the Colts tonight, so the weekend's excitement is over, and that includes tonight's game. Lesson of the week: The Niners, floating atop the NFC West, may be getting bored. And there just isn't an apple small enough not to get stuck in Denver's throat...
Something is different this year, however. For the first time in the history of America's Pastime, the World Series will debut in a place where the climate is far too temperate for autumn to take place...
...Indian writer's debut work, a frenetic treatise on caste prejudice, has had a mixed reception: At least one reviewer found it "pretty hard going" and the London Daily Telegraph described it as "emotive but meaningless verbiage, crammed with inappropriate metaphors." But what seemed to attract the most attention was the near-$2 million paid to its writer before it was even published...