Word: perform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there was a certain pressure on him to perform well because he was the son of a prominent coach. "Outsiders sometimes put a lot of pressure on me, because they think that the sons of coaches should be good football players," he explains. But he says that his father never put pressure on him to play football...
...silly and dated, constructed of material not strong enough to be considered flimsy. Junior Dolan, the son of two vaudeville dancers, leaves the act, goes to school, and eventually becomes a music professor. As the story gets under way, he tries to persuade a famous Russian ballet company to perform a modern dance by one of his students, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. The inevitable complications ensue. The prima ballerina (Natalia Makarova) makes advances. Poor Frankie Frayne, Junior's true love, despairs. The ballet's impresario discovers the professor's terrible secret-that he lives to dance...
Some 10 wealthy passengers have each paid $15,000 for a 10-day cruise through the Mediterranean aboard the Narcissus. The luxurious ship provides both musical and gastronomical delights. A virtuoso pianist and a renowned diva perform nightly to passengers who dine on gourmet food and turn adulterous in the moonlight. Indeed, affair after affair develops among the passengers...
Tucked away beneath the President's House at 17 Quincy St. is the office of a curious and little-known University organization. The Harvard Neighbors, a group comprised mostly of faculty members' wives, have banded together for nearly a century to perform a colorful range of community services, from offering classes to helping resolve faculty-family problems...
Around $15,000 of the sum will go to a concert featuring. The English Beat while The Beat has not yet definitely agreed to perform, the Council has put in a bid for the band and has tentatively rented Briggs Cage for April...