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Word: performer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the Brezhnev era, rock music was carefully controlled through the State Concert Agency, a government bureaucracy that reserved the right to determine which bands could legally perform in public places. Only bands that were officially registered by the agency could receive money for their shows, a ploy that allowed bureaucrats to weed out undesirable groups by choking off their income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hot, Hot, Hot: Brigada S | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...Government. Alumni will describe the events of the '69 strike and their effect on the students and the rest of the Harvard community. Alumni will also play an audio tape of the police break-in of University Hall narrated by ABC-news correspondent Chris Wallace '69. Leonard Lehrman will perform the SDI Waltz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calendar of Events | 4/7/1989 | See Source »

...thought it would be nice for him to go around the dining halls and make dinner kind of fun," said Council Chair Kenneth E. Lee '89 yesterday. Karol, who dropped his regular $750 fee to $250 and a Harvard sweatshirt, "really wanted to perform at Harvard because of the name," said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UC Magician Tricks Diners | 4/5/1989 | See Source »

...average individual is not going is not going to have either the expertise or the equipment to perform a theft of this type," Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent James A. Hern told the press this month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Attempt Theft of Fogg Sculpture | 3/21/1989 | See Source »

Meet Take 6, the hot new gospel group whose performers, all devout Seventh- day Adventists, are as much in the business of preaching as entertaining. The six men, who perform with no instruments except their heaven-sent voices, count themselves among the world's more unusual evangelists. "Our mission," says bass Alvin Chea, "is to take the word of Christ into places it doesn't ordinarily go." Founder Claude McKnight III says of the group's Christian message, "It's not a gimmick for us. It is our lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Evangelism And All That Jazz | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

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