Word: perform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carrabino-and most athletes-it doesn't matter how it works; only that it does work. They call it superstition, they call it technique, or they call it fate. But whatever the ritual, athletes need it to perform...
Says Debra A. Wise, one of the group's puppeteers, "If we perform in more traditional spaces it's because of the generosity of others. There's been precious few places to perform around here-it's been...
...adds that in the past, performance locations and prices have restricted theater and other performing arts to white, middle-class audiences. The CMAC is "a boon for small professional companies who want to be seen by lots of people, but can't afford to perform locally...
...lower cost and a quicker pace than projected. In effect, it argues, the Pentagon is complaining that an efficient company benefited from cost underruns, rather than being faced with cost overruns. The whole point of these contracts, argues G.E., is to give the supplier an incentive to perform better. "There were no cost overruns and no overcharging," declared Brian Rowe, a G.E. vice president. "The Government did not pay one cent more than it contracted to pay." Both G.E. and Pratt & Whitney, which on similar contracts made profits averaging 14.6% instead of the projected 13%, indicated that they would...
...works; in Princeton, N.J. Revered by fellow musicians, Sessions adapted such modernist techniques as Stravinskian neoclassicism and Schoenbergian serialism to his individual style, allowing lyricism and emotional color to come through the bursts and layers of sound. Almost all his works, however, are dense, dissonant and difficult both to perform and to listen to, with the result that some compositions waited years for premieres; among his best-known and least inaccessible works were his score for The Black Maskers (1923) and Symphony No. 1 (1927). A teacher and author, Sessions won two Pulitzers, a special citation...