Word: performancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dirty Hands also suffers from a regrettable tendency peculiar to the film noir: tiresome recapitulations at a certain point in the narrative of what has transpired thus far. Such devices are designed to perform a service for the audience, and the elaborately tangled plots of some films belonging to this genre cry out for an occasional rehash, so long as the timing is judicious. But Chabrol seems unable to grasp the delicacy that this device requires. The authorities' periodic attempts to sort out the more baffling knots in the narrative come off as hopelessly contrived, and Chabrol's vain effort...
Students will perform the custodial work for their dormitories and supervisory personnel will handle all maintenance work, Albert R. Dobie, director of Yale's university operations, said yesterday...
...that easy for someone who stands over six feet tall and weighs over 200 pounds to remain obscure for that long. Unless, of course, you perform on a line whose other members include two All-Ivies and the team captain...
When asked about the future, Treacy, Degan, and Coach Amato are in perfect agreement: all roads lead to Moscow. "That's why we're here," John Treacy will tell you with his soft Irish smile, and after seeing these two perform yesterday, it's hard to believe that the 1980 Olympics are not a very real possibility...
Bernstein quotes CIA sources as saying that major news organizations-including the New York Times, CBS and Time Inc.-issued credentials to full-time intelligence agents and allowed their own employees to share information with the CIA and perform various tasks for it. Most of these relationships have ended, Bernstein says, but as of last year some 75 to 90 American journalists were still bound by secret agreements with "the Company...