Word: performer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What emerges is political bedlam and national boredom. But there are other more troubling results: not least the total exhaustion of the candidates, who must perform as political athletes, operating by glands, not by reason; and just as important-the inability of any schoolteacher to tell students approaching voting age how the nation chooses its leaders...
Although the new drug "will assume a major role," he said doctors will continue to perform castrations and use DES to fight the disease...
...house. The chimps clutch the bars and make faces; the orangutans lounge obscenely and scratch their hairy orange arms. With ape-like gestures, the cast members of the Mainstage production of Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade shriek, jabber and carry on. As the inmates of the asylum of Charenton, they perform a play within a play. The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat, written by one of their own number, the Marquis de Sade...
...poor stay poor,/Give us a rise and we don't care how,/Give us a revolution...now!" The link between mass revolt and sexual lust is the theme of another rollicking song: "And what is the point of a revolution/But general copulation?" On the word "copulation", the singers perform a neatly-choreographed little wind-up dance...
...teachers union has instructed its members to refuse to perform any duties not required by their contract Principals and teachers will enter their respective schools as a group exactly 15 minutes before the start of classes this morning and leave together exactly 10 minutes after the end of school this afternoon, as required by their contract...