Word: performer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...freshmen were amazed at how well we came together," Gustafsson said. "That helped everyone swim perform at their best individually...
...West, argues that the deal was not a merger. "We've bought the building, and St. Louise, the surviving hospital, is taking over." But the hard-line stance could backfire. Last year in Manchester, N.H., the Catholic Medical Center, which had recently merged with another local hospital, refused to perform an emergency abortion on a woman in danger of prematurely delivering a 14-week fetus--even though her doctor had determined that she was at risk for a lethal infection. The incident generated so much outrage that the hospital with which it had merged sought and won a divorce...
...precisely the same cry; she has remembered and transformed her mourning into art, and the audience applauds fervently. It is a lovely clue to one of the movie's themes, as Almodovar describes it: "the capacity of women to act without being professional actresses: to lie, to fake, to perform. Men and women both have loneliness, pain, the same kind of suffering. But the way women react to these things is much more spectacular, much more cinematic. It does seem that men are made up of fewer pieces than women...
...STRIP, Germany. While strippers perform, male and female teams answer questions, some with picture clues, about sex. The team that loses strips...
When I was a first-year, people hated Springfest because the council could only afford to bring a band called God Street Wine to perform. Maybe 500 people showed up. Last year, over 3,000 people came to Springfest because the Violent Femmes were a bigger name and the rides and games that we had were more fun. But we basically scraped the bottom of the barrel for money and this year, we may not be able to do the same because we don't have any extra money lying around like we did last year...