Word: performer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With a guaranteed chance to perform before their fellow-undergraduates tonight, and the hope of winning a gig at a popular Cambridge club, campus musicians are gearing up for this evening's Battle of the Bands...
Kirshner was one of numerous faculty members invited--or coerced--to perform at the second annual "Faculty Unplugged," a benefit talent show sponsored by AIDS Education and Outreach...
Renowned Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya returned from six years of self-exile to the Bolshoi Theater to celebrate her 70th birthday today. She resurrected her Swan Queen from Swan Lake, the role that first brought her international fame. Plisetskaya now lives in Germany where she continues to teach and perform...
...popped up in Sydney intrigues scientists because it contains striking abnormalities in a gene that is believed to stimulate viral replication. In fact, the virus is missing so much of this particular gene--known as nef, for negative factor--that it is hard to imagine how the gene could perform any useful function. And sure enough, while the Sydney virus retains the ability to infect T cells--white blood cells that are critical to the immune system's ability to ward off infection--it makes so few copies of itself that the most powerful molecular tools can barely detect...
...that she is idle: without fanfare, she sits on the Kennedy Center board, makes sandwiches at a Washington soup kitchen, and finds time for the Red Cross, CARE and Best Friends, Elayne Bennett's program for inner-city girls.) As her husband's career advanced, Alma had to perform a series of increasingly public roles. She excelled, but didn't always enjoy the social grind that might take her from the coffee held in honor of the fashion show held by the officers' wives, to the Red Cross lunch meeting, to the reception for the wife of the Trinidadian Security...