Word: performer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same time, you do want a system that will perform well on the Harvard network and the Internet and last you more than six months...
Harvard will need to perform well in its opening game against Rhode Island on Sept...
...Hercules? In the myth Hercules was a tragic figure: born with the strength to strangle serpents in his cradle, but with far less than the normal quotient of self-control, he kills his wife Megara and their three children in an inexplicable fit of rage and is condemned to perform his superhuman feats as a way of atonement. There's a lesson here, maybe, about the disproportion between human ability--mental or muscular--and our capacity for moral reflection. But in the movie the tormented demigod becomes "Herc," an ultra-buff teenage superstar who adores "Meg" and addresses the Great...
Andrew Ferguson's musings, in "Me Tarzan, You Minivan," that men like sport-utility vehicles while women prefer minivans are full of sound and fury, signifying nothing [ESSAY, Aug. 4]. What Ferguson did get right is that very few SUVs ever perform any task more rugged than driving to the grocery store or picking up kindergartners. But to set up minivans vs. SUVs as a female-male battleground is an exercise in blowing hot air. Ferguson needs to look at the SUV in the lane next to him. The driver is probably not Tarzan at all--it's Jane! MARY...
...lured into recording the sound track for The Last Temptation of Christ by the British rock musician Peter Gabriel, began attracting an international following. Besides recording the sound tracks of Natural Born Killers and Dead Man Walking (where he sang with Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder), he continued to perform around the world. At sold-out performances, throngs would dance and whirl, some shouting "Ali! Ali!" and throwing money on stage where Khan sat, gesticulating only with his hands as his voice conquered all surrounding space...