Word: performance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because, Glass said, he is trying to discover a language for himself, he has had trouble in the past finding musicians to perform his work and amassing the capital necessary to stage his operas...
...election to Congress in order to challenge Brooke several weeks prior to the publication of Brooke's personal problems. As a reformer in Lowell and Middlesex County politics, and then as an outstanding Congressman, Paul Tsongas has shown he has the intelligence and moral fortitude to perform equally well in the Senate. Tsongas's creative approach to energy problems, his sophistication in dealing with third world issues, his work on behalf of state and federal urban revitilization policies, and his support of the Kennedy-Corman national health insurance bill (which Brooke opposes) are representative of his highly progressive politics. With...
...diplomats therefore must try to come up with some formula by which the American embassy in Taipei would be turned into a nongovernmental institution that could still perform all the functions of an embassy. The U.S. needs to watch out for $7.5 billion in annual trade with Taiwan and $500 million in American investments there (Taiwan is the U.S.'s twelfth largest trading partner; Communist China is the 23rd). In addition, the Administration is determined to provide for the maintenance of Taiwan's 500,000-man armed forces...
...presence as "the Important One." Naturally, the boy grew into a man thoroughly confused about his sex and spectacularly bumbling at practical affairs. He was 30 and the author of three respected novels before he gained a clear idea of how men and women actually perform intercourse. He was uncoordinated, ineffectual and absentminded. "I never saw anybody so incapable," his mother once said, as if admiring her handiwork. In his 20s, Forster astounded a friend by stating his belief that telephone wires were hollow...
THEN COMES the fine supporting cast, all of whom perform up to expectations. Most House shows would be hard pressed to come up with leads as good as this supporting cast: Shipley Munson and David Frutkoff form a fine duo as Nathan's sidekicks, and their rendition of the title song is as good as any. Among the others, Jim Mulqueeny, Michael der Manuelian, Kerry Konrad and Marc Johnson strut their stuff with authority...