Word: debutants
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Some claim the act of knuckle-bumping began in the 1970s with NBA players like Baltimore Bullets guard Fred Carter. Others claim the fist bump's national debut occurred off the court, citing the Wonder Twins, minor characters in the 1970s Hanna-Barbera superhero cartoon The Superfriends, who famously touched knuckles and cried "Wonder Twin powers, activate!' before morphing into animals or ice sculptures. One might also credit germaphobics for the fist bump's popularity. Deal or No Deal host Howie Mandel reportedly adopted the gesture as a friendly way to avoid his contestants' germs...
...Laurent left home at 17 to work for Christian Dior in Paris. Upon Dior's death in 1957, Saint Laurent took over the fabled French couture house and, at only 21, garnered worldwide attention for his revolutionary first collection of short swingy trapeze dresses. The day after his Dior debut, French newspaper headlines claimed that Saint Laurent had "saved France...
...Cannes, you simply will not find, say, a film on Northern Ireland's Troubles that is sympathetic to its English occupiers, or an Israeli film hostile to the Palestinians. This year, Hunger, the story of IRA leader Bobby Sands' fatal hunger strike in 1981, won the Camera d'Or (debut film) prize for Afro-Irish director Steve McQueen; and Waltz With Bashir, an animated documentary about Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's sense of guilt over the Sabra and Shatila massacres of Palestinian refugees in 1982, was one of the critical favorites in the main competition, though Penn's jury gave...
...depressed cinephile, it was a tonic to find one movie of gigantic ambition and considerable achievement. That would be Synecdoche, New York, the directorial debut from U.S. screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. His scripts for Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind were complex and challenging enough - but they were finger-painting compared with this tale of an upstate New York theater director (played by the great Philip Seymour Hoffman) who tries to create a masterpiece of living art while his life tears itself to shreds...
...swinging a club or racquet. Wii bumped up Nintendo's sales 73%, to $16 billion, last year. It is outselling rivals 3 to 1, and Fit is driving Wii: more than 2 million Fit units have been sold since the game's December launch in Japan, and its U.S. debut is expected to drive Nintendo to another bust-out year...