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However the Helsinki conversations were described, they amounted to a successful, if initially hesitant, debut for Shevardnadze. The silver-haired, outgoing former Communist Party boss from the southern republic of Georgia had few evident credentials for the Foreign Minister's job beyond close ties with Gorbachev. Shevardnadze's expertise lies in public administration, where he made his mark with boldness, incorruptibility and a flair for public relations during a 20-year career in Georgia as minister of public order and eventually party secretary...
...count, American Almanac is NBC's eleventh try at a newsmagazine since First Tuesday made its debut in 1969. NBC Chairman Grant Tinker has promised that he will give American Almanac enough time to find its viewers, a strategy wisely used by CBS for one of its news shows. That program spent its early years in the ratings cellar. At one point, the show was preempted to make room for football games. Only in 1975, seven years after its debut, did perseverance (and a regular Sunday time slot) pay off and the program begin to blossom in the ratings...
Robinson lasted one-third of an inning in his starting debut, suffering four hits and four errors. Rose eventually arrived at the mound. " 'I got to take you out,' he told me. 'No reason. I just got to. You got bad luck or something, kid. Go home and turn your mirrors the other way.' " That was worse than devastating, but not as awful as being the last...
...festivals in 2003, but it was largely eclipsed by the coverage of Gus Van Sant’s similarly themed “Elephant.” Where that film remained somewhat detached, the camera always hovering at a distance from its subjects, Coccio’s directorial debut brings his version of the killers themselves to the forefront. Through “home-video footage” shot by the two boys, the film follows the year of preparation leading up to the massacre they have named ‘Zero...
...Spotless Mind”) is a master at this. Conversely, bad screenwriting can make a mundane and realistic story appear completely unbelievable. Sadly, “House of D”—David Duchovny’s (“The X-Files”) debut as both writer and director of a feature film—is an example of the latter...