Word: performer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIXER. A persecuted Jewish handyman in turn-of-the-century Russia battles his fate with an intensity that makes this John Frankenheimer film a harrowing and moving experience. Alan Bates (in the title role), Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm perform their difficult assignments with fierce passion...
...support involved working toward European political unity. For the job of prime minister, Pompidou has said that he will look to a member of the Gaullist party, but one capable of effecting national reconciliation and producing a "more far-reaching dialogue with the Assembly." The man best equipped to perform both chores seemed to be the handsome speaker of the Assembly, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, one of the major heroes of the World War II Resistance, who served under leftist Fourth Republic governments before joining the Gaullists...
...established procedures prevent most members of the community from taking a full view of the crisis. One handles the issues raised one by one, and tries to fit a complex and global challenge into creaky mechanisms that were set up to cope with such a situation. Now, inevitably, they perform erratically: not well enough to appease the desires of the impatient ones, not to mention the rebels who would anyhow not want these institutions to succeed; not firmly enough for those who see in the challenge a threat; not badly enough for most people to see how serious the problem...
Entering the villa, reports TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott, a guest senses that "he has just checked into one of the grand hotels of Europe." A staff of six stands ready to perform any service. The bar is stocked with 116 varieties of liquor, including pisco from Peru, ouzo from Greece, Indonesian arrack, Georgia moonshine from the U.S. and a 140-proof Italian pine liquor, which Fielding says is "really too strong to drink." The basement larder is packed with imported delicacies: pheasant in Burgundy jelly, smoked swordfish, Scotch grouse pâté, quail eggs, Norwegian kippers, whole lychees, albacore tuna from...
...last few months he ate little, drank too much and had a constant struggle with illness. When he did perform, he would come on the stand bearded and bowed, seemingly dwarfed by his big horn, smiling mischievously. The notes would stumble at first, and the tremolo might widen into an uncontrolled wobble of sound-but sooner or later Hawk would explode into a solo that recalled earlier days: warm, austere, unfailingly rhythmic even in the midst of a caressing ballad. Afterward he might laugh a little, as if sharing the private pleasure of self-rediscovery with his audience...