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Word: perform (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years we've brought people here that have no other way of getting to Boston," says Director of the Dance Center Iris M. Fanger. This summer David Gordon and the Pick-Up Company will perform in late July and Remy Charlip will dance a New England Premier Concert the following weekend...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Dancin' Six Weeks Away | 7/8/1986 | See Source »

...pomp and ceremony and would no doubt have appreciated Wolper's efforts to bring forth tears and goose bumps from the masses huddled around the New York City waterfront for Friday's spectacular fireworks. But he could not have imagined the 200 Elvis Presley look-alikes who will perform during Wolper's Sunday night finale. Nor could he have dreamed of spending up to $30 million for a party or making $10 million by auctioning off broadcasting rights to ABC television. He would be puzzled by the multifarious products with the Statue of Liberty imprint: Liberty charcoal briquettes, Liberty beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Party of the Century | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...standard treatment for disease heart valves is to perform open-heart surgery and replace the valve with an artificial valve or a pig valve. About 20,000 implantations are done each year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Doctors Herald Heart Discovery | 7/1/1986 | See Source »

Many secondary students have traditionally been attracted to Harvard's Summer School believing that a good performance would translate into admittance to the College. Despite the fact that 330 of Harvard's current 6000 undergraduates did attend the Summer School. Pihl downplays the connection. "We tell them it is not a back road way," says Pihl, adding, though, that "it doesn't hurt" if you perform well...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: It May Not Be England, But It Is Cambridge | 6/22/1986 | See Source »

...year. Cynics call the place Six Flags over Jesus, but you will be disappointed if you come expecting a Holy Roller coaster or a guided walk across the Sea of ! Galilee. Still, Heritage is not your everyday theme park. Now and again, lifeguards shut down the swimming pool to perform a baptism, and at Eastertide the song-and-dance acts are replaced by a Passion play. In a salon of the 500- room hotel, blue-haired grannies sip tea (no alcohol is served) as a harpist plays nearby. "Jim Bakker grew up and asked, 'Why can't everything be nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: If Heaven Ain't a Lot Like Disney Theme Parks | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

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