Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...likes an antisocial computer. If a machine cannot communicate with other devices, its owner can be isolated and less effective. Yet the IBM Personal Computer, which has become a desktop standard since its debut in 1981, still cannot be linked in large groups. Result: a virtual epidemic of lonely-terminal syndrome among IBM customers, who have bought nearly 3 million of PC's four current models. Growing impatient in the past year, PC users have been demanding a way to connect the machines. IBM responded in 1984 with a system for linking a few PCs, but business users clamored...
DIED. Emil Gilels, 68, burly Soviet pianist of powerhouse virtuosity and delicate nuance who with his 1955 U.S. debut reinaugurated a performers' parade of cultural exchanges between the superpowers that had ended before World War II; of undisclosed causes; in Moscow. A prodigy who gave his first public performance at 13, he was a Communist Party member from 1942 on, and his concerts in the West frequently drew pickets as well as enthusiastic audiences. In an attempt to defuse the protests, Gilels once confessed to Western reporters that, yes, he had played for Nikita Khrushchev--but on an American piano...
...about time, as Cybill Shepherd sees it. The erstwhile cover girl made a dazzling film debut 14 years ago as a budding beauty in The Last Picture Show, but the early promise of that role seemed to go unfulfilled. Several movies and a television series, Yellow Rose, flopped. Then last spring she let her hair down as the frosty and funny Maddie in the ABC-TV series Moonlighting. The critics applauded, and since it returned to the air this fall, the show has made several appearances in the Top Ten. "It was real hard for me to break...
...related series of bizarre events last week preceeded the debut of the booklet. First signs of the Gargoyle began to appear when "comp" posters mocking the Lampoon were posted on campus kiosks. The posters invited all students to attend an introductory meeting of the magazine at 21 South St.--the address of the Harvard Advocate...
...cousin is ex-Trotter Hubie ("Geese") Ausbie. The all-time best female college scorer when she graduated in 1981 from the University of Kansas, Woodard was captain of the 1984 Olympic gold medal- winning U.S. women's basketball team and beat out 22 other women Globetrotter contenders. She will debut when the team begins its 60th- anniversary tour in Australia this week. So far, the new guard reports, breaking the sex barrier has brought no penalties from the men, who have behaved like "gentlemen." What, those jokers...