Word: performancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some imaginative staging and choreography and, like almost all Mainstage shows, some annoying deficiencies. But this show has much more going for it from the start than most, for it features a superb brace of songs by Stephen Sondheim, arguably the premier songwriter of his generation. The cast cannot perform all of the numbers as well as one would like--the score, as in all Sondheim shows, has some difficult harmonies and is perhaps a bit too tough for an amateur cast--but this production is strong enough to be amusing and even marginally poignant...
...Indiana, special units of the state police patrolled key intersections along highways used by coal trucks. Governor Otis Bowen assigned 350 National Guard troops to protect coal being hauled from a Public Service Indiana power plant near Evansville to another at Terre Haute, and 250 more to perform similar duty along an intentionally undisclosed coal route. Other states in the region assigned their police forces to protect coal shipments. Moreover, the Coast Guard patrolled a 42-mile "safety zone" along the Ohio River from the Cannelton Locks to Newburgh, Ind., where much of the nonunion coal was barged...
...downs of friends and celebrities simply by knowing their birthdays. According to the theory, there are three fixed cycles, each starting at the moment of birth: a 23-day physical cycle, a 28-day emotional cycle and a 33-day mental cycle. Every human is likely to perform well in the up phases of cycles, and poorly in the down or recharging phases. But the most vulnerable day, known as the critical, zero or switch-point day, comes in the midpoint of each cycle, when a person is changing phases. Things are very likely to go wrong on a "double...
...dread death, they also look nervously behind them as they age to see what younger people are hurrying up to replace them, not only on the job but on the planet. The passing of champions can be cathartic; it is part of the large, primitive theatrics that sports perform...
...Crimson fencer did perform well, Kathy Lowry. Lowry took all but one of her four bouts in demonstrating the type of aggressive fencing that brought the Crimson its first eight victories...