Word: debutants
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Lily Allen became the first breakout star on MySpace, and even nonadolescents could figure out the appeal. Her debut album, Alright, Still, had an irresistible single called "Smile," a follow-up about a dope-smoking little brother, and just enough ska and reggae samples to hint at the existence of a precocious streak. There was a minor controversy over Allen's fondness for obscenities and Mockney (the British term for the upper-class affectation of a lower-class Cockney accent, ŕ la Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins), but even that advanced her charm as a real girl sticking...
...alone in his relief. Almost a decade after 3G services were first introduced elsewhere in the world, the Chinese government, which maintains tight control over the country's telecommunications networks, announced on Jan. 7 that China was finally ready to join the party. And despite its late arrival, the debut of 3G, which allows much faster data-transmission speeds and services like Web-surfing and video-streaming, promises to be quite a blowout. Government and private-sector estimates put total probable expenditure on 3G in China - whose 630 million users make up the world's largest group of mobile subscribers...
...Paris started a year ago with a return home, to the hardscrabble Knowle West district of Bristol, England. That trip led to the release of his latest album, Knowle West Boy, a fusion of Britpop and hip-hop that Rolling Stone calls "Tricky's best since his 1995 debut Maxinquaye". For the 41-year-old artist, that journey home was a chance to take stock. "You can't just keep moving forward, you have to look backwards sometimes," Tricky tells TIME. Revisiting his own difficult childhood, Tricky found himself wanting to "talk for kids growing up on a council estate...
...sophomore Ryan Carroll didn’t just make his debut as starting netminder last night. He arrived in stunning fashion, stopping 42 shots en route to a narrow 4-3 loss to the No. 15 Boston College Eagles...
...Even though Carroll has seen limited collegiate action, last night wasn’t the first time he has faced the Eagles. The sophomore made his collegiate debut against BC on Dec. 12 last season...Though this was the last Beanpot game for the team’s seniors, only two members of the class of 2009 came up big. Nick Coskren and Brian McCafferty each had a hand in one of last night’s goals...