Word: perform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Citystep dance troupe will perform a completely original program at the Boston Shakespeare Theatre on September...
Professor Kaiser should learn, as Essex before him, that the ability to perform dumb shows before hundreds of unlettered students does not entitle any populizer to admonish, lambast or attack this president. Dr. Benito Rakower
...course. Chevy Chase in his tux intends to perform his Ford-the-Klutz routine of stumbling and bumping, the old Saturday Night Live act that helped catapult him to national notice. "But I've got to be careful," warns Chase. "I've got a couple of squashed disks in my back now, and I can't take falls like I used to." When Ford first called to ask him to join in the presidential hilarity, Chase thought there had been a mistake. "After all, I'd been pretty mean...
...ripe market for the world's drug supply, which will always exist as long as there is the demand for it. Experts point to other deep-seated causes that produce a continued national craving for drugs: lack of community, disintegration of the family, moral laxity, the relentless pressure to perform in a fast-paced society. "The real remedies to the problem don't satisfy Americans' urge for a quick fix," says Ted Galen Carpenter of the CATO Institute, a Washington think tank. "It's a long, laborious process." Merely preaching about the evils of dope is no more likely...
...arcane world of East-West spying the events had their own logic. Both sides say they acted because the other side broke unwritten rules of espionage. Zakharov was an irritant to U.S. counterintelligence agents because current spying etiquette decrees that operatives who are not accredited as diplomats can perform "spotting" and "assessment" functions for the spy masters but only those with diplomatic status can handle informants. "We couldn't let the KGB get away with this," said an intelligence official. The timing of the collar was not a mistake by overeager agents. Said FBI Assistant Director William Baker: "The final...