It was there in Mike Reed's People, Places & Things, a Chicago quartet who'd never before played in New York, making freed-up hard-bop with scrappy, scholarly intensity.
What makes it even more remarkable is the fact he has never before played as a No 3 batsman in Tests.
The accuracy of the accent should come as no surprise, as Gyllenhaal has twice before played an Englishwoman – in Nanny McPhee Returns, under the tutelage of Emma Thompson, which is a bit like being schooled by the Queen, and in Hysteria, which did the admirable job of dramatising the invention of the vibrator.
Though the teams have met on 10 previous occasions - and in five different countries - the USA have never before played in England.
This decision was confirmed when training camp started in the fall, even though Boren had never before played center.
Fischer used a line of the Sicilian that he had never before played as Black, and further surprised Spassky with a novelty on move eight.
Huff, 33, has never before played a full season for a team with a winning record.
The leading nations have never before played in the United States, although India-Pakistan one-day internationals have taken place in Canada.
In more than three dozen films, he said, he has never before played a living person, still less one as familiar as Mr. Lauda.
Murray had never before played Berlocq, nor Granollers, perhaps the most notorious grunter on the men's tour, since the Spaniard began honking in earnest the last few years.
If Vodafone has, as it has done before, played the [tax] system, then it has an obligation to UK consumers to do the right thing".
