Word: perform
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dividing along sectarian lines. Such a development was not unexpected. Earlier hi the summer, a prominent Arab journalist in Beirut had predicted: "If the army has to fight the Shi'ites, it will break apart like a watermelon dropped on the pavement." Not only did the Lebanese army perform creditably last week, but, more important, it did not split apart. For the first time in eight years, the Lebanese government had an army that it could count upon...
...cooked up a rock-solid band, so cohesive that it has become part of his creative process. "I started to take unfinished songs to the band and respond as a writer to their suggestions, Browne says. "Your instrument is actually the medium with which you're going to perform the songs. The band is now my instrument...
Such facilities can perform up to 40% of all surgical procedures...
Among them: cataract surgery, tonsillectomy, breast biopsy, D & C (dilatation and curettage of the uterus), knee arthroscopy, vasectomy and facelifts. Essentially, the centers can perform any operation that does not require prolonged general anesthesia and extensive post-op care. Because they avoid the overhead costs of such services, the surgical centers can charge as little as one-third of what a hospital asks for a given procedure. Boasts Surgeon Darrell Holman, a co-founder of the Arcadia center: "We've streamlined our costs so that we're as efficient as a submarine...
Consider what happens when a modern symphony orchestra and soloist perform a Mozart piano concerto. The string section, often much larger than any Mozart had at his disposal, blasts out its parts on violins and cellos better suited to powerful Strauss tone poems. The wind instruments are louder and more penetrating than classical flutes, oboes and clarinets and more complex in their mechanisms. The piano, a huge concert grand with a booming bass, is worlds removed from its gentler 18th century forerunner. In this welter of sound, inner voices are lost, delicate balances are destroyed. Exciting as the performance might...