Word: performer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unfolding her perfect crime, British Playwright Macaulay tries hard to be à la Mod. Her actors, uniformly able, have been directed to play it cool and campy, while tossing off supposedly chic little references to existentialism. They perform with the cheery abandon of those who see a closing notice looming in the immediate future...
...Teammates." A cool, tough engineer, Denver-born McDonnell calls his employees "my teammates," and he makes them perform as a team. He came up through a brief career as a barnstorming pilot and, after that, as a project engineer at the Glenn L. Martin Co., then started his own plant at the St. Louis airport with $165,000 in savings and money borrowed from, among others, Laurance Rockefeller. Gaining experience and financial strength as a subcontractor on such planes as the DC-3, McDonnell eventually designed and built his own, convinced the Navy that it could fly faster and perform...
...Sadie Hawkins Day races," Capp explained, "and things like family trout fishing, which is a hell of a lot of fun if you aren't a trout." The developers will also set up a gristmill to make Mammy Yokum cornmeal and hire a justice of the peace to perform as "Marryin...
...wound and the heart-slack enough, says Dr. Snyder, for a finger to pass between the bandage and the limb. Then a dash to the hospital, where antivenom is given after the surgery. If a hunter is hours away from a hospital, he may even be able to perform the emergency surgery himself, because snake venom acts as a mild local anesthetic and leaves the bite area numb...
...touring the U.S., and last week went on exhibition in New York's Asia House Gallery. Typical of his sharp-eyed acquisitiveness are his ceramic brace of Northern Wei young women. Dating from around A.D. 500, they stand only 6¾-in. high and represent dancers ready to perform in a nobleman's house. The piece was never meant to be seen by living eyes; like funeral objects found in Egyptian tombs, the sculpture was placed in the elegant grave of a dead princeling as a token of worldly pleasures to accompany him in the afterlife...