Word: perform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer's end, Composer Richard Rodgers and Lyricist Oscar Hammerstein offered her a job in the show's London production, but her father talked her into coming home to finish school. Two years later, in 1952, she moved back to Manhattan and was hired to perform in an industrial show for Servel appliances (on tour through the South, she pirouetted around an ice maker) and then for the Broadway chorus of Me and Juliet...
Referring to the 20 percent limit placed on the amount of work a Law School professor may perform outside of the school. Dershowitz said. "I haven't even come close...
...Shanghai reform school, told a visitor that he was committed to the institute for watching foreign movies. Later, his principal disclosed that Feng was actually found guilty of seducing twelve-year-old girls. Even premarital and unorthodox sex have come out into the open. "Many of the abortions we perform are on unmarried girls," says a Peking gynecologist. "A few weeks ago, I performed one on a 23-year-old worker. It was her third." A pedestrian on Shanghai's bustling Nanking Road may find himself solicited by tight-jeaned, leather-jacketed homosexuals...
...keeping time with the Opry band. "I wonder how that fellow marched at West Point," said a listener. "To a different drummer," replied someone else. As for Block, he told the generally appreciative audience: "I'm so excited I could almost explode. You know, I don't perform professionally." Why, shucks, John, course...
...remain silent. When ideology beckons, he recoils, resolving at last that he would rather reveal inhumanity poetically than revile it politically. "Tell the human story," he says, "and the propaganda will take care of itself." And when the Serpent Players, his all-black troupe of actors, are invited to perform privately before a privileged all-white audience, Fugard surprisingly accepts. But instead of the scheduled comedy, the company presents The Coat, a jolting play about a black man unfairly sent to jail...