Word: performance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enough coincidental rain, to be encouraged. Frazier is fascinated by the nobility of Crazy Horse, the great Oglala Sioux chief, and talks himself into a long, marveling chapter on the splendid old warrior's death. It might be expected that a writer accustomed to being funny in magazines would perform too gaudily in a book of this kind, luxuriate too much in the acuteness of his ironies. Frazier's enthusiasms are personal, but he stays out of the snapshots most of the time, and he leaves the reader with a powerful impulse to change the van's oil and head...
...broke into the open when police arrested five teenagers and charged them with sexually attacking a mentally impaired 17-year-old girl. According to investigators, the girl was invited to the home of two of the youths on March 1, where she was forced by the five suspects to perform sexual acts and violated with a broomstick and miniature baseball bat while eight other young men watched...
...impossible to tell, from page to page, just how this improbable hero will perform his role, not only for the nervous intelligence officers monitoring his every move but for the readers as well. With scarcely an intimation of sex, no violence and not a side arm visible, Le Carre has again managed to construct a plot of commanding suspense. Never before has he so successfully merged his narrative and contemplative gifts. The Russia House is both afire and thought provoking, a thriller that demands a second reading as a treatise on our times...
...officer asks the man to perform field sobriety tests. The officer drops a pen and asks the man to pick it up. He also asks the man to say the alphabet backwards. The officer decides to call the police wagon and, when it arrives, the driver involved with the accident is handcuffed, put in the back and transported to the Cambridge police station in Central Square...
Impressing the Top Dino. When dealing with seniors, do not try to dazzle them with your brilliance. "The boss's idea of intelligence is someone who listens to him." Do not tell your boss your personal problems. "Old dinosaurs like the strong, silent types." Stuck with drudge work? Perform first; get out of it later. Otherwise, the boss may bite your head...