Word: performer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marked the second coming of cocaine. It was the perfect drug for the Me generation. "The new morality of young America is success, the high- performance ethic," says University of Massachusetts Professor Ralph Whitehead. "Pot bred passivity. On alcohol you can't perform well. You smell. People can tell when you've been drinking. But cocaine fits the new value system. It feeds it and confounds it. Young adults walk a tight line between high performance and self-indulgence, and cocaine puts the two together...
...Marysville operations are helping to revolutionize the way that American autoworkers view their jobs. The 3,263 workers at the plant are divided into only two job classifications -- assembly and maintenance -- compared with as many as 100 in some unionized U.S. factories. This leaves Honda workers free to perform many different functions, as dictated by the ebb and flow of the assembly line. While their $12.25 hourly wage is about $1 below the United Auto Workers average, employees and their families enjoy unusual benefits, including access to the company's gym and pool...
Citystep utilized the talents of the Cambridge school children to perform a dance routine that spanned the entire field. Never mind that it looked like a 100-yard long Richard Simmons show. For when the performers all threw off their color-coordinated sweatshirts, they recreated the image of graduates tossing their mortarboards into the air upon Commencement...
...silence falls over the crowd. About five people disembark before he steps through the doorway, sporting a double-breasted grey suit and a tan. As the crowd watches in quiet respect, he greets Governor Michael S. Dukakis and his other distinguished hosts. The Prince listens politely to the band perform and walks to the waiting crowd where he stops to chat with a few people. One girl can't stop smiling after she curtseys. Another woman acts casual while in conversation, but after is agog at what has just happened...
...Dylan and those barely out of their teens crowded into arenas, stadiums and concert halls across the country for the raspy-voiced troubadour's True Confessions show. By the time the tour ended last week, an estimated 1 million people had heard him and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers perform nearly a quarter-century of Dylan's songs, from the vintage Masters of War through the rock anthem Like a Rolling Stone. Now fans will have to be content with his new album, Knocked Out Loaded, in which the freewheeling bluesand gospel-flavored numbers evoke the rowdy, roadhouse Dylan...