Word: perform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company, as usual, acquits itself competently. No single actor steals the show or dazzles with thespian brilliance, but all-perform convincingly. Karen MacDonald as Natasha is appropriately flamboyant and flouncing. Cheryl Giannini manages very well the tenuous connection between Masha's existential misery and her womanly love for Lieutenant Coloral Vershinin (Alvin Epstein...
...woman to serve as her state's chief justice, would have been swearing in the nation's first elected black Governor, California's Thomas Bradley, on Jan. 3. Instead the voters chose George Deukmejian three weeks ago, and Democrat Bird may not even be asked to perform her traditional inaugural role. For Deukmejian, now the state's Republican attorney general, is an unrelenting Bird critic determined to reverse what he sees as the excessive liberalism of the chief and her court...
...they were thought likely to fail against summer or Christmas competition. Frank Price, chairman of Columbia Pictures, which is releasing only the English comedy The Missionary between September and November, sees an answer in the recent past: "Last fall most movies, including the adult films, just didn't perform well at the box office...
Like a singer-like a veteran singer-can get on any stage and do his thing. Without that feeling, you can't perform...
...single flaw spoils the film--the character actors perform up to par, the French countryside is breathtaking, and Marie's development proceeds with innocuous charm. Yet Morreau gets so caught up in every little detail of Marie's summer experience that her film begins itself to seem a little adolescent...