Word: performance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These mid-career lawyers often find that although corporate firms do provide indigent clients with legal aid, many firms' policies make it difficult for attorneys to perform even these volunteer services...
...actors cast in these smaller roles team up in the second act for an amusing group vocal performance of "Slips Away," which they sing as the beaten Hoss lies catatonic on the floor. Clad in 50's-style tuxedo jackets, Buttaro, Baptiste, Kiser and John Byrd (Hoss' friend, Cheyenne) perform this absolute best of all The Tooth of Crime's songs...
Hall's one concession to talk-show tradition is to perform an opening monologue. His topical jokes are lame compared with Carson's or Jay Leno's, but he exposes himself in a way those cool satirists never do. Talking about Ralph Abernathy's book, in which the former civil rights leader made allegations about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s sexual escapades, Hall barely disguised his anger. "He's just jealous," said Hall. "Probably hasn't been with three women in his life . . . Martin's still my hero. Right...
DANIEL LANOIS: ACADIE (Opal/Warner Bros.). Record producers, even those as skillful as Lanois (U2, Dylan), usually come up with eccentric gewgaws when they perform on their own. But here is an exception: Lanois' music is minimal, mystical, folklike but decidedly unfolksy. No wonder he runs with the big boys...
...hard to tell [how this year's Crimsonwill perform] until I see them against someoneelse," Cleary says. "I think the guys are gettinga little tired of looking at each other...