Word: debutants
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...account of baseball’s color barrier, Satch, perhaps the greatest player in the history of the Negro Leagues, didn’t make his major league debut until 1948, when he was already 41 years...
Several students chose to independently finance the plays they wanted to see performed. The American debut of Jean Genet’s play “Deathwatch” was one such independent undertaking, produced by John M.S.W. Eyre ’57. Also directed by Aaron, the play earned the critical acclaim of The Crimson and was later invited to perform at the Yale Drama Festival in the spring...
...Thanks to a vote of the Golf Coaches Association of America, Shuman joins an elite group of 16 collegiate golfers on the Ping All-New England Region team. Shuman, who led the Crimson with a 75.08 stroke average, is now eligible for the coveted All-American distinction. In his debut season, the rookie earned a top-10 finish in three of the Harvard’s nine events and broke 80 in every one of his 20 tournament rounds. At the Ivy League Championship, Shuman finished in fourth place, and his best play came the following weekend with a second...
...spirits in her house, which happens to be the orphanage she grew up in. It sounds hokey, and the film is not reluctant to dabble in ghost-story conventions. But this is a shuddery, splendidly made parable about the power of both grief and belief. Bayona makes his feature debut here; if his form holds, he will be back in Cannes for years to come...
...Take the opening attraction, Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights. Much heralded as the Hong Kong master's first English-language feature, and starring pop diva Norah Jones in her acting debut, this fable of a lovelorn woman's jaunt across the U.S.-from New York to Memphis to Las Vegas and back again-lurches in and out of plausibility without ever quite weaving the slo-mo magic Wong brings to his homegrown fare. But then, just as the viewer's patience is being tried by the relentless despair Jones' character appears to live in, Natalie Portman shows...