Word: performer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should there be any surprise that Yitzhak Rabin, a Sabra and inured to years of struggle, is now measuring up to the challenge these new crises pose? After all, a characteristic of the modern Israeli has been his ability to perform under extreme pressure...
...drama out of his role, remembering that Gilbert's words are as important as Sullivan's music and usually funnier. Crowley has the best Gilbert and Sullivan voice in the cast, a compound of condescension and donnish befuddlement, and it's unfortunate he didn't have the chance to perform a patter song. His "I've Got a Little List"--perhaps the number that has proved most useful to later parodists--sounds fresh and crisp; his "Taken From a County Jail," though, didn't come up to this high standard and lacked the clarity of diction essential to understanding Gilbert...
...Image. When the shifts have been made, the White House staff is expected to perform more efficiently under the direction of Donald Rumsfeld, 42, who has not yet succeeded in establishing the authority that was anticipated...
...Technology likes to perform its tricks onstage and its real miracles in the dressing room. Christmas shoppers are happily aware that pocket calculators are now about one-third of last year's price and that before long, transistors and printed circuitry will provide TV sets so thin and flat that we will be able to hang them on the wall like engravings. Of far greater and subtler potential are discoveries that do not immediately reach the consumer. The maligned space program, for instance, has produced satellites and observatories that can survey a nation's military potential. Such hardware...
Thereafter, however, the film turns almost unbearably dark in tone, as the scientists attempt to stimulate erections and ejaculations electrically, perform mutilating operations in order to study muscle functions, and finally, in its most sickening sequence, briskly and bloodily reduce a living squirrel monkey to a set of microscope slides. The excitement of the researchers rises to almost orgasmic heights in the process, though just what they are doing-other than transforming life into a sliced abstraction-is unclear...