Word: debuted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the Summer School does not comprise our entire audience, although it does make up a considerable portion of the readership. For that reason we attempt to balance our news coverage between several areas of interest. And, it would appear, it is for this reason that today marks the debut of Summer Times...
After steering his newspaper into the ranks of the nation's best, Los Angeles Times Publisher Otis Chandler revved up for a different kind of contest: the Six Hours of Endurance race at Watkins Glen, N.Y. Making his professional track debut, Chandler, 50, drove his own Porsche Turbo 935. "I had done some amateur racing, but I had never gone toe to toe with the world's greatest drivers," says Chandler. "It was much more than I had bargained for." Even so, the press lord is now feeling like a king of the pit: "I guess I kind...
Baryshnikov's debut, as Frantz in Coppelia, was at a matinee. The crowd was full of mothers and kids who had bought seats long before the announcement of Baryshnikov's appearance. Frantz is an ebullient young man; his entrance is a headlong dash to the front of the stage. Baryshnikov made it his signature: an outpouring of physical power and grace, as well as a challenge to the audience to soar with him. His first afternoon had a couple of rough spots: in the first act he strolled onstage ahead of cue and was stuck watching dances...
Robert Murch (Sir Toby) and Michael Tolaydo (Orsino) do little more than get through their lines, though Mary Doyle wins a few points for her Maria. Making his professional debut here is Peter Francis-James, doubling the supporting roles of Valentine and an Officer. Though these offer little opportunity, it is at least apparent that Francis-James has learned to speak quite beautifully at the Royal Academy in London, where he played Orsino. I wish he had been entrusted with the role here...
...others," he said. "This time, I was much more intense, concentrated." He began playing the cello at six when his father, an amateur violist, and his mother, a pianist, started their son practicing in hopes of gaming an addition to their family chamber group. At 13, he made his debut with a symphony orchestra in Redlands, Calif., and began studying with Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky...