Word: performances
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Halgreen returns to perform a 360-degree spin, twirling five feet above the half pipe, his head dangerously close to the metal rafters. He slides to the flat bottom of the ramp on his knee pads...
Yankovic and Foxworthy perform in concert as well, but the Jerky Boys (one failed movie aside) thrive only on recordings. Their one unvarying gimmick: merciless prank phone calls. On their latest album (Jerky Boys 3), they ring up pizza places and massage parlors and torment people at the other end with idiotic requests or unprompted verbal abuse. To callers responding to classified ads they've placed for power tools, the Boys babble psychotically and refuse to give any information. You know the album has gone awry when you start cheering the hang...
...DIEGO: As Bob Dole prepares for Wednesday's second and last Presidential debate, the question is not only will he be able to resurrect his fading campaign but will be able to perform well enough to help his party hang on to crucial Congressional seats in California. Trailing by a sizeable margin in a number of key states including California, Dole is nevertheless spending a large amount of his dwindling and scarce resources campaigning in the state. At stake for both parties here is more than just the Presidency. GOP gains in Congressional seats in California were a large component...
...wheel" that looks like a huge skeletal snare drum, but Chris Lashua does somersaults and daredevil revolutions within the wheel as he steers it almost into the laps of the first-row spectators. Men are not supposed to be springboards, yet the Ukrainian and Russian acrobats in the "banquine" perform high-dive triple twists from the top of a four-man pyramid. Humans aren't built for the gorgeous torture to which Yves Decoste and Marie-Laure Mesnage submit themselves in their "hand-to-hand" body sculpture. Caked with white makeup and executing exquisitely slow convolutions, they could be Prometheus...
Several years later, while she was visiting New York, Yves Beauvais, a producer with Atlantic, saw Peyroux perform in a club. She spurned his first attempts to sign her--at age 17, she deemed herself too young--but then, last year, she felt she was ready. "I thought, 'I might as well try it,'" she says. "I had to make a commitment to myself...