Word: performance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite his brobdingnagian frame (6 ft. 7 in., 240 lbs.), his ever present cigar and his gravelly bass voice, Paul Volcker is a man who likes to keep a low profile, to perform his financial wizardry as a bureaucratic technician rather than as a public figure. But such behind-the-scenes machinations have their frustrations. One night, after an International Monetary Fund meeting in Copenhagen, Volcker was so exasperated with his colleagues that he strode down to the Tivoli Gardens and proceeded to throw wooden balls in a booth full of china plates until he had smashed away his tension...
...hired two models in bikinis to stroll into the Chicago printing plant where John worked to sing him a happy birthday. Belly dancers appeared at Sam's auto business to perform. A plane hired by Sam streamed greetings past John's house. A high school band hired by John played For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. An elephant was delivered to John's home...
...half years ago some friends asked him to perform again in a show. "I thought my legs wouldn't be strong enough but I did it--and the audience liked my dance...
...says a Fred Astaire movie in Boston Kindled her interest in tap dancing. At first she sought out old tap dancers becuase of her interest in the history of the dance but soon she wanted to perform herself. Now she plans to establish a foundation "to preserve, promote, and perform tap dancing," she says...
Later this summer she will perform at Jacob's Pillow in Worcester. The Harvard Concert is free...