Word: performer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gratifying for me to see women on the team run times and perform in the field events far beyond their expectations," Jurivich said. "What is even more encouraging is that most of the team members are juniors, sophomores and freshmen. With the experience of this year, we could very well field a very powerful team next season and in the years to come...
...those concerts with the blue-jeans set, Singer John Denver is finally heading for Tuxedo Junction. For one week in August, the Rocky Mountain balladeer will make his first major nightclub appearance-on the same bill with Frank Sinatra at Lake Tahoe. "I've only seen him perform on television, but I've heard others say he wrote the book," says Denver. "I'm looking forward to learning a great deal that week." The branchwater-and-bourbon combination will feature Denver singing to the supper crowd and Ol' Blue Eyes performing at midnight. "There...
...shrunken Polish immigrant who dreams of buying his son a car for his high school graduation, foreman unable to cope with the car-smashing tough-punk rage of an Italian boy put on an impossible schedule by a time-study engineer--find little satisfaction in the labor they perform. But out of their relationships to one another at union picnics as well as in the plant, Swados's people make their mechanized factory into a human place. And though each of them is unique, there is no suggestion that they are more unique than anyone else. As in nearly...
...memory of those days has lingered, he explains. "I'd compare it to a severe illness. If you are sick, it takes a long time to recuperate energy to perform your task well again. And if you were sick once, it is a reminder that you can become sick again." The dean says that he is concerned that the same events might repeat themselves...
...only major shortcoming is that the scene is somewhat overplayed. Clennon takes an eternity to light cigarettes, shuffle folders, and perform other simple tasks that would go unnoticed were they not performed with such tedious, painstaking care. Too often, these just create empty gaps in the action. Similarly, jokes are often belabored by both actors as if they are asking for a laugh. Consequently, all they get is a nervous titter...