Word: performance
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...from 16 (minimum age) to 18 must have a chaperone always with them, and the older girls (up to 29) are fired if caught consorting with the customers. No Bluebell ever appears in the nude (although eight decorative non-Bluebell nudes stand around the Lido stage while the Bluebells perform). Presumably acting on the theory that a good big girl is better than a good little girl, Miss Kelly long ago decided that no Bluebell could be less than 5 ft. 8 in. Some hit 6 ft. 4 in., and when got up in four-inch hairpiece and four-inch...
...recent statement to the Committee on Educational Policy introducing an outline of the center's program for next year I wrote, among other things: "The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts has to perform an educational task as its foremost obligation.... All that needs to be done is to have visual experience, visual exploration and visual creation share in education a revelant place with verbal experience, investigation and creation .... Backbone of the program is what has been designated the core course together with workshops. In addition there will be advanced workshops, seminars and special projects. Extracurricular activity will be sponsored...
Every one of us in college today has taken a standardized, multiple choice test at some time or other; and most of us have taken them quite frequently. What is more, we have had to perform well on them, or else we would not be here...
...announced he would sue La Scala and Von Karajan for defamation of character. Von Karajan denied he knew Di Stefano had even been signed to sing with him, and when La Scala paid Di Stefano his regular $10,000 fee despite the fact that he was not going to perform. Giuseppi simmered down. But not his friends. "Don't let yourself be insulted by a foreigner," they cautioned him. Quickly working himself back into a proper Sicilian rage, Di Stefano turned his $10,000 over to the Italian Opera Singers Association "to start a fighting fund to battle...
Chilly Reception. Most of the customized treatment truckers demand, however, stems from the jobs their trucks must perform and their desire to keep maintenance costs down. Before placing an order for 160 International Harvester truck tractors, engineers of Charlotte's Johnson Motor Lines-one of the biggest U.S. truck fleets-tested two pilot models for a year, then asked for changes from windshield wipers to heaters. It was partly because Bell Telephone, the world's biggest commercial truck customer (8,800 purchased a year), wanted a Volkswagen-styled side-door compact truck that Ford and Chevy two years...