Word: debuts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women's final between Chris Evert, 23, and Czech Defector Martina Navratilova, 21, offered drama of a different sort. Evert was coming back from her first tennis vacation since her debut as a 16-year-old at Forest Hills in 1971. She won the first of her two Wimbledon singles titles at 19, and has ruled the game with icy consistency ever since. But sated and weary, she temporarily abandoned the sport this winter. While Chris went home to her parents, Martina came home to her talents. Mastering an emotional temperament and harnessing her formidable gifts to new-found...
Travolta does have a kind of endearing look about him and some might even dare to say there is some hint of talent beneath that flashy strobe-light exterior, which made its debut in Saturday Night Fever and is bound to make a few more starry-eyed fans in Grease and then who knows...Rumor has it that producers Robert Stigwood and Allan Carr held Grease until Travolta made his claim to fame in Saturday Night Fever. They apparently believed that Grease could be a bigger box office hit because everyone would be going to see Travolta, and not some...
Regulation. Carter's Regulatory Analysis Review Group made its debut by persuading Labor Secretary Ray Marshall to put off new federal regulations against cotton dust in mills. Those regulations, proposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, would have helped reduce lung disease among cotton-mill workers, but at an annual cost of $200 million...
Spurred on by his ambitious mother, Nyiregyházi became a performer. He made his orchestral debut with the Berlin Philharmonic at the age of twelve, playing Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto, then completed a string of European tours over the next five years. Along the way, he happened upon the work of Liszt, then out of fashion. The great romantic, perhaps the most dramatic pianist of all time, became Nyiregyházi's mentor and model. "It was like discovering a new world," he says. "Such lyrical and dramatic intensity, such emphasis on the grandiose and imperial...
...discovery of the real New World came soon after, with a triumphant debut at Carnegie Hall in 1920. He liked the praise, the skyscrapers, a certain "bravado and toughness" about Americans. He decided to stay. Almost immediately, his misfortunes began. Critics had second thoughts. He lost a legal wrangle with his manager over fees, and was blacklisted by the musical fraternity. Then his marriage - in 1926 to a woman eleven years older, who had promised to re-establish his career - blew...