Word: entertain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yale Glee Club will sing a variety of classical and modern works, as well as the more traditional football fare. Both groups will join in singing the tow almamaters at the concert's close, and the Whiffenpoofs of '82 will entertain during and after intermission...
...suggestion and Forman's urging), Cagney, too, could stay home. He has never enjoyed self-promotion, preferring the quiet of his 800-acre farm near Amenia, N.Y. The comfortable stone house is as simple and solid as he is. He and his wife of 58 years, Billie, occasionally entertain friends like Mikhail Baryshnikov but venture forth only rarely. They journeyed to the White House when Ragtime was screened for the President, and this week at the New York Press Club, Cagney will memorialize his old friend Robert Montgomery, who died in September. He is also considering another movie role...
...snappy and clever cast does do what House drama should and does do best: not try to present deep and thought-provoking drama, but to richly entertain. Going to Scandal is like going to Great Adventure on the Fourth of July and stopping to watch the fireworks on the way home...
While at Harvard, Lehrer began fiddling with a piano in Dunster House, writing ditties about campus personalities, parodying popular songs of the day, and playing his compositions at parties. He thought little of it at the time; it was just a way to entertain himself and his friends...
...situation, Lehrer recalls, was not at all peculiar. "I just studied and was a section leader and nothing was strange about it at all. I was never really confronted with my difference from other grad students. It wasn't like I was Brooke Shields coming to entertain the troops." One Harvard professor, for whom Lehrer was a teaching fellow, remembers Lehrer this way. "He was Tom Lehrer, world celebrity, the most famous member of the Math department," John Tate, Perkins Professor of Mathematics, says, "but on the other hand, when he was here, that part of him wasn...