Word: performer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This ill-assorted crew succeeds, barely, with the aid of many kind coincidences of plot and blasts of whimsy all lifted from a Donald E. Westlake novel and curdled in shipment. The actors perform with resolute lack of charm. Scott appears to be doing some sort of New Year's party imitation of Humphrey Bogart, an idea that consists entirely of petrifying his upper lip and pressing the dialogue out between the spaces in his teeth. The other members of the cast seem to have dropped by on their way to the unemployment office...
...drove through the fires on drunken dares. Two beer trucks were ransacked and a few latrines burned to the ground. Some 25 people lurched off the jump ramp, apparently intent on burning it, but were turned aside by shotgun-toting deputies and the sobering information that Knievel could not perform without his ramp...
...cultivate the bacteria for laboratory studies. Doctors will also be able to use the infected tissue to make a diagnostic reagent called lepromin, which is used to predict the severity of a leprosy patient's disease. The single New Iberia animal has yielded enough of the chemical to perform 15 million tests-about as many as there are leprosy patients in the world...
...workers to join the Harvard printer's trade union, Local 16b of the Graphic Arts International Union. In that decision, the NLRB hearing officer endorsed the Harvard administration's argument that the 11 service employees could only join a University-wide union of clerical workers, because all clerical workers perform similar jobs at the same levels of technical expertise...
...booter mentor, who replaced 26-year coaching veteran J. Bruce Munro, says he will be concentrating on individual skills, emphasizing ball control. He says he hopes that all his players will be able to perform with the same proficiency as the best teams in the United States once he finishes his training program...