Word: performer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this odd, often confounding, yet strangely moving tragicomedy. Mingling, even juxtaposing, humor and pathos, undercutting the concept of the heroic ideal with lacerating irony, and completely devoid of the compelling central figure so key to the other plays, it is also arguably the trickiest one to interpret and perform. The current American Repertory Theater (ART) production, based on Robert Brustein's adaptation and directed by Francois Rochaix, chooses to play up the comic-ironic aspects without jettisoning the ambiguity or the tragedy. It succeeds marvelously in the first aim, somewhat less clearly in the second...
Across four albums, Red House Painters have offered confused, despondent, tender love songs that seem less creations of music than excavations of the soul. A kind of gray, rainy day alternative folk; soundtracks to uninvited solitude between cold, stupid bedsheets. To watch them perform, while indignantly immured in a crowd, hovels away from the sacred gloomy-wombiness of the old bedroom, is a bittersweet and some-what discomfiting experience...
...infamous for blowing its hard-won head start in the desktop-personal-computer business in the early 1980s. Now it's staging a credible come-from-behind charge in the laptop marketplace with a series of thin, lightweight machines that perform well and look great. The strongest of the wonderful bunch is the 133-MHz Pentium-powered 760ED. With a luminous 12.1-in. screen, 16 MB of memory standard in each computer and a large 2.1-GB hard drive and built-in fax modem, the 6.7-lb. computer is powerful enough to handle the strictest demands of Road Warrior computing...
...specter of economic retaliation--and the fact that Texaco executives were caught red-handed using racially insulting language as they discussed the destruction of evidence--that motivated Texaco chairman Peter I. Bijur to perform the most spectacular flip-flop since Kerri Strug's Olympic showstopper. In a textbook feat of corporate damage control, he agreed last week to spend $176 million to end the lawsuit filed by black employees whom Texaco has been stonewalling for years. The pact contains the most lucrative settlement ever of a U.S. discrimination case. If wholeheartedly implemented, it could transform Texaco from a bastion...
...longer. Last week the Artist held a coming-out party. Three hundred guests streamed into Paisley Park to hear him perform. The show started with a recording of Martin Luther King proclaiming, "Free at last, free at last!" The Artist then took the stage to play Jam of the Year, from his new album, and Purple Rain, one of his biggest hits. The concert ended when he announced, "Hey, man, it's my wife's birthday, we gotta get outta here! Nov. 19! Don't y'all let us down...