Word: performer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Godwyn had assumed that the pair was going to perform a different routine or perhaps give a disclaimer to their routine the next night. The routine was altered so that the whip was omitted, although the pair still included a portrayal of some physical abuse in their routine...
...discussion of vouchers gets framed by both sides as an issue of fairness. Supporters ask why the poor should not have the same chance at private schools as the better-off. Though it's too soon to tell whether most voucher-supported students perform better academically in a private school, no one needs a study to show that most private schools are safer and more orderly. For inner-city parents, vouchers can represent salvation from a system in perpetual disrepair, even if they offer just a fraction of poor children a way into the lifeboat of private schooling...
...simple fact: reading achievement in the U.S. is low. According to the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress, 44% of U.S. students in elementary and high school read below the "basic" level, meaning they exhibit "little or no mastery of the knowledge and skills necessary to perform work at each grade level." Seventy-two percent of blacks scored below basic; 32% of fourth-graders whose parents both had college degrees also failed to reach the basic level...
...this bluesy, funky tune, clearly having a good time. After an intense climax that ended with a flourish, the audience got to its feet and cheered wildly as the trio retreated back-stage. Clearly, everyone in the audience was asking themselves how soon they could see this dynamic trio perform again...
...they didn't need the hype to be good, than they proved it well, as the crowd seemed to feel a special connection with the group during this segment. This absence of spectacle only made it seem more spectacular when they then walked back to the main stage to perform several last crowd-pleasers. The lights and magic around them really took off, and the ends of some of the last few numbers were punctuated with incredible pyrotechnic displays that completely lit up the sky. The encore brought both the simply classic and the fantastic to a maximum. While...