Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...built on optimism, and the musical, its foremost contribution to the world theater, has typically been seen as a straightforward comic romance that sends audiences out grinning and humming. But in an intensely imaginative 13-show career, Stephen Sondheim has embraced all those unpromising themes. From his big-time debut in 1957 as the lyricist of West Side Story to his 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Sunday in the Park with George, a fantasy about the creation of a French impressionist painting, Sondheim, 56, has steadily pushed toward--or beyond--the limits of what the score, the narrative, the very premise...
...good old rock 'n' roll, have just released their first album. Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams it's called, an appropriately no-nonsense title salvaged--for reasons of reverence and resonance--from the lyrics of the Rolling Stones' Shattered. So far, this record stands as the most galvanic major-label debut of the year. Some 35,000 copies sold, and still counting. First single just released. Video on MTV. Band on tour. Fans everywhere. Count...
...recent public debut, the first production model made short work of a series of knotty problems that would have tied up an ordinary computer for hours. It scanned three months of Reuters news stories--16,000 articles in all --in / of a second. In two seconds, it transformed a stereoscopic image transmitted by a pair of television cameras into a detailed, two-dimensional contour map. In three minutes, it laid out the circuitry for a computer chip containing 4,000 transistors. Says Daniel Hillis, the computer's 29-year-old designer and co-founder of Thinking Machines Corp. of Cambridge...
pears at first glance that the fam- ily is posing for the Lands' End catalog. Saying goodbye to Rosie is a scene not quickly forgotten, executed by a gifted writer whose debut cannot easily be ignored...
...snorts cocaine all the time--than at his son's turning to anyone but him for life's experiences. An eerie, subliminally sexual bond of dominance pervades this womanless household, with the boy serving as a submissive valet, an Edith Bunkerish wife. Macchio, in a brilliant stage debut, sustains that disquieting relationship. Yet he renders Teddy as a talented and basically normal kid, reconciled to the fact that his father may love him but will never understand...