Word: debuts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert Moore began his career as an actor, making his Broadway debut at age 19 in Jean Kerr's Jenny Kissed Me. "I'm still basically an out-of-work actor," he said. "Acting is a nice way to goof off." In 1968, he made his professional directing debut with The Boys in the Band. "I didn't really want to direct it. I was directing college theater at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and Mart Crowley, the author, was a student of mine. He had been working on the play and he brought...
Chrysler started the model-year with only one new name plate and wound up 1977 with about 10% of the market, its lowest share since the early '60s. But the company has high hopes for its Omni compact, which made its debut last week. At a list of $3,706, the Omni is Detroit's first front-wheel-drive car with a transverse engine, and has earned Motor Trend magazine's "car of the year" award, which is usually a boost for sales...
Howie (19), Nick (15), and Billy (16) are the Blessed, a punk band which played its first gig on Christmas Day in New York. Before their debut performance, they had practiced a total of three times, once with no microphone and a cardboard box as drums. None of the band members owns equipment, except Howie, the bassist, and Nick picked up a guitar for the first time three weeks before their debut. They maintain that they are the real punks. "These people are too old to call themselves punks. If you're going to sing about being a teenager...
...performing as long as his fingers maintain their strength and coordination. At 73, Vladimir Horowitz seems to be just as brilliant as when he first played the U.S. exactly 50 years ago. Last week in New York, the famed Ukrainian-born virtuoso celebrated the anniversary of that debut with some of the most electrifying music-making ever heard in Carnegie Hall, a hall that has had its share of excitement over the years...
...event was staged for maximum effect. It almost seemed as if he had refrained from playing with any orchestra for the past 25 years just to create the tension that was now so palpable. Accompanying him was the New York Philharmonic, with which he had made his American debut in 1928 and observed his 25th anniversary...