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Word: perform (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Columbus, where he will perform at a fund-raising benefit for the arts council May 31, F. & R. Lazarus, one of the department stores, is even redecorating a part of a floor to look like the Carlyle, complete with ashtrays brought in from New York. Says Ric Wanetik, the council's executive director: "Here in the Midwest it's In to know who Bobby Short is and even more In to know that he represents class and style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Saga of a Saloon Singer | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...problems of piano playing at Harvard go far beyond a lack of facilities. "Of course there should be more pianos, of course the music building should be open past ten o'clock." But the real problem, she says, is attitude. "The Music Department could really be an advocate of performance, but instead professors say to me. 'Oh, you probably want to do something more intellectual with your life than perform. 'It's one thing if they don't want to teach it, but they look down on it as well," she says, noting that none of her professors has ever...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: Practice Made Perfect? | 5/1/1981 | See Source »

...Harvard Committee on Dramatics Friday decided to allow the Harvard Summer Theater Ensemble to produce four plays at the Loeb's Experimental Theater over the summer. The group will soon name its "core" members to the theater company, who will be paid to perform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Theater | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...ensemble will perform Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure." Aristophanes' "The Birds," "Suicide in B-flat" by Sam Shepard, and one other play, Peter R. Mason '81, one of the organizers of the group, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Theater | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...will also enable scientists to perform more mundane research, like that planned for Spacelab. Among them: investigations into the behavior of metals, chemicals and even living cells in what scientists call the microgravity of orbit, the familiar condition of weightlessness. Some student experiments will be carried up as well, probably as part of NASA'S so-called getaway specials, compact canisters as small as 1.5 cu. ft. that can be placed on a flight for as little as $3,000. One young man recently announced he intended to use such an experimental package to see if fruit flies breed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Touchdown, Columbia! | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

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