Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hand at writing, first poetry, then folktale adaptations for performance at a science museum, then plays. By the time Wilson, 42, brought his poignant Joe Turner's Come and Gone to Broadway last week, he had established himself as the foremost dramatist of the American black experience. His Broadway debut, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, ran nearly ten months and earned the 1985 New York Drama Critics Circle prize. Fences won the theater's triple crown -- the 1987 Tony, Pulitzer Prize and Critics Circle award -- and is still playing, having set a record for nonmusicals by grossing $11 million...
Renninger left first base to make his debut as a starting pitcher for Harvard's depleted staff, but his appearance was abbreviated. The southpaw walked three and gave up three singles without retiring a batter before leaving the game for reliever Jon Biotti...
...progress. Another long, ambitious Garcia Marquez novel has been wending its way toward English translation, accumulating impressive numbers in the process: sales of more than 1 million in the original Spanish version, hundreds of thousands of copies snapped up in West Germany, Italy and France. The U.S. debut of Love in the Time of Cholera comes preceded by considerable thunder...
Christian Lacroix' s ready- to- wear debut makes Paris headlines, but some great clothes turn up in small shows and no- shows...
...Christian Lacroix, currently carrying the torch as the mainstream's brightest hope, to kindle some heat. Lacroix, who turned couture upside down and shook out its hand-stitched pockets as no one else has since Saint Laurent, made his ready-to-wear debut, and expectations were high. Lacroix had suggested, while the clothes were still being made, that the giddy shapes and botanical palate of his couture work were going to be a bit muted. But when the lights went up on the first passage, there was a mini-mob of models swarming together at the back of the runway...