Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...touch and go" for several days on his "chucking it all in." Added Mac: "If it had not been for my wife and loyal staff here, I don't think I could have got through. But I soon decided that there was one essential duty to perform. I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts...
...young man-technically speaking, that is. "I was painting still lifes that were getting greyer and greyer," he recalls, still amazed at the helplessness he felt. The tonic he needed was the famous course given at Yale by Josef Albers, who has spent decades demonstrating what marvels colors can perform when left entirely on their own. As can be seen in seven Anuszkiewicz' paintings on display in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (including those on the opposite page), the tonic worked...
Pressure was on the Harvard Summer School chorus even before it came into existence. Two weeks after try-outs the group was scheduled to visit the Boston Symphony Orchestra at its summer home in Tanglewood and perform Mozart Requiem in D minor...
...three actors have chosen to interpret their parts as grimly as possible. Mark Bramhall is appropriately bitter and cynical as Giovanni, but his interpretation leaves out the third dimension of grotesque humor the character should have. Elise Sweet (Francesca) and Joel Martin (Paolo) perform competently; Miss Sweet especially brings fierce intensity to her role...
...tugging on the wooden toggles attached to the risers. He insists that for the first five jumps the chutes be opened automatically by a static line attached to the aircraft. After that, the adventurous jumper can essay the free fall, and look forward to the day when he can perform swanlike maneuvers in thin air, until the onrush of solid ground-or his own nervousness-makes it advisable to pop his chute. A parachutist needs no license. After all, he can only hurt himself...