Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gone cosmic-as if dramatists were engaged in a campaign to laugh wars, capital punishment and lung cancer out of existence. The big news about Cambridge Circus is that it thinks small and carries a big slapstick. The manic, unassuming young graduates of Cambridge University who wrote and perform in the revue would rather tickle a rib than wash a brain, and more often than not they are indescribably funny...
...field hospitals as well as in improved breathing systems for spacecraft and submarines. Other possibilities: space suits that cool off astronauts even as they perspire; a substitute for the very expensive heart-lung machine used in open-heart surgery. In this application, the membrane would separate blood and oxygen, perform some of the same functions as a human lung...
SONGS FROM A COLONIAL TAVERN (Decca) have been chosen from more than 7,000 old ditties unearthed by Taylor Vrooman, who dresses up in knee breeches and sings them for visitors to Virginia's reconstructed colonial Williamsburg. Vrooman, and the cronies who sing catches with him, perform here with a formality and finish more suitable for a concert hall than a tavern, in spite of lyrics like "From good liquor ne'er shrink...
...Manila's wealthy suburb of Forbes Park glitters with swimming pools, but children starve to death regularly in the shack towns along the Sulu Sea. Daughters of wealthy Manila socialites sport names like "Ting-Ting" and take ballet lessons, while at an annual festival at Obando, childless women perform a rhythmic fertility dance coaxing the saints to help them conceive. Polo is played in Manila, but headhunting is occasionally still the game in the wild, distant mountains of northern Luzon...
...Nobody," writes Miss McGinley, "has so far received a Pulitzer Prize for contriving a poetic boiled custard, in spite of the fact (which I know from experience) that it is a feat far less easy to perform than writing a ballade." Her own recipe for boiled custard appears on page 269. Some other hints for the elegant execution of housewifery...