Word: debuts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Affirmed, the horse he rode to the Triple Crown last year. Horsemen do not show slumping jockeys quite the paternal support that Leo Durocher, manager of the old New York Giants, gave a weeping rookie named Willie Mays after he had gone 1 for 26 in his major league debut ("Tomorrow's another day, kid, and you're going to be playing centerfield tomorrow"). Barrera said the decision not to let Cauthen ride Affirmed in the $200,000 Strub Stakes was "one of my hardest." But he earlier confessed, "You know what race-track people do fastest? Bury...
Marvel's debut on the screen seemed inevitable. After all, Lee's comics themselves used cinematic techniques like closeups, fadeouts and establishing shots. Says Marvel Editor Roy Thomas: "Unlike most comic artists, Marvel's illustrators always drew their pictures first-before the writers put in dialogue. It was a very cinematic approach." Italian Film Director Federico Fellini is a fan. He once paid a visit to Marvel's New York office and pronounced that "Lee added his own kind of ironic parody to comics...
With the audacity of the venturesome, Joseph Papp has assembled a black-Hispanic acting troupe, and its debut production is Julius Caesar. In the U.S. the problem of proper delivery of the Shakespearean line transcends ethnic background or race. Few, if any, American actors are qualified to speak in iambic pentameter. Lacking sufficient breath control, they pant when they should roar, and jangle the music and authority of poetic rhetoric...
Freshman Carolyn Powell, who went down to defeat in the Dartmouth match, has proved herself a reliable addition to the Crimson lineup since her astounding debut against Southeastern Massachusetts when she notched 5-0, 5-1, and 5-0 wins...
Robert, on the other hand, who makes his debut in King of the Gypsies, could conceivably rival Redfort in looks (a darker version), and unlike Shields and Gerald Ford he can do more than one thing at the same time...