Word: performer
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...Harvard affiliated American Rapertory Theatro (ART) has been chosen to perform at the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles next June, an Olympics official announced yesterday...
...novices to the Harvard stage, has no trouble delving into its characters. Freshman Michael Albion gives a sensitive portrayal of King Leontes, using his monologues to reveal his characters' insecurity, blind rage, and pompous narcissicism. Maryann Bergonzi as Paulina and Pamela Knickrehm as Hermione, two local actresses, give superb performances. Bergonzi stands out with her exquisite enuncition and her somber, melancholy, yet determined facial expressions. Two more freshmen--Tucker McCrady as Florizel, King Polixenes' son, and Laurence Bouvard as Leontes's long-lost daughter Perdita--perform on the same finely-tuned level as the professionals...
...Physician Alfred Damus of Coral Gables, Fla., ran across the announcement one day last week in the morning paper, his imagination went to work. With a system called Viewtron, the doctor and his wife Leatrice could monitor their bank accounts, pay bills, keep track of their stock portfolio and perform other financial tasks simply by tapping the buttons on a notebook-size keyboard. Later that morning his wife spent $600 for the Viewtron machine being advertised at a nearby Burdines department store...
...want to see the city perform services that the citizens pay for," Daniel Crane, one of the four ABC directors, said this week. "We feel things have been mismanaged...
...problem is that traditionalists in the Conservative branch believe, along with Orthodox Jews, that Halakhah (religious law) clearly rules out women rabbis. According to the Talmud (teachings of religious sages compiled more than 14 centuries ago), women may not perform certain functions reserved to men, such as witnessing betrothals and marriages and leading congregations in prayers. J.T.S. Chancellor Gerson D. Cohen, who presided over the vote, left little doubt that he rejects the Orthodox view and believes that women should be allowed to perform these functions. Said Cohen: "I believe it is incumbent upon us to do away with discrimination...