Word: performs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over Here, after all, gives us back the surviving Andrews sisters, Maxene and Patty, who despite their thickening middle age perform with a certain agreeable spunk and a vast desire to please. But theirs is a conjuring act: their voices, coarsened with years, merely point to their original sound; what will be applauded is the memory...
Kuerti presented the Liszt B minor piano sonata, a huge and difficult piece. Its one overblown sonata-form movement takes almost half an hour to perform. In it, Liszt explores extremes of pitch, timbre and volume as he takes two themes through striking and dramatic transformations...
...idea works in a delightful way. Mrs. Mowatt's cautionary tale has the pretentious Mrs. Tiffany bankrupting her husband with her ostentation and trying to marry off her daughter to a phony French count. The women, playing all roles - male and female - except for Count Jolimaitre (Ty McConnell), perform with just the right note of light camp. They all but twirl hypothetical mustaches. The songs by Don Pippin and Steve Brown have a rollicking charm. When Mrs. Tiffany (Mary Jo Catlett) embarks on her fantasy of "My daughter the Countess," she is aquiver with such an exuberance of social...
...American radical--similar to the malcontent of the '60s. I think that a lot of the underpinnings of the government have been ripped loose, not just because of the energy or economic crisis but by the growing feeling that there is just nothing anymore that is able to perform the function of standing fast and being the subject or object of respect or inspiration...
...university hospitals offering the operation. Though operating room mortality may be less than 5%, complications such as myocardial infarction (the classic heart attack), brain damage, hemorrhage, kidney failure or closure of the bypass are not uncommon. Despite these risks, Russek noted the tendency of some doctors to perform the operation as a "preemptive procedure" on patients who have not yet experienced angina or who suffer only mild symptoms...