Word: performance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are other genetic techniques which, compared to specific polygenic changes, may prove easier to perform. Davis said that monogenic changes in man may be possible and that the determination of the sex of human children by separating sperm cells should be a soluble problem...
Backstage at Comes a Day he got drunk and trashed his dressing room; he broke one of his hands hitting some scenery during The Wall when he could no longer tolerate one of his costars. After a period on the wagon, he got drunk and, knowing he could not perform well, deliberately missed a performance of The Andersonville Trial. During rehearsals of Plaza Suite, in later years, Maureen Stapleton confided to Mike Nichols: "I'm so frightened of George I don't know what to do." Nichols replied: "My dear, the whole world is frightened of George...
Most of Calbom's and Lackner's criticism centered on what they called Harrison's authoritarian style of coaching. This resulted, they said, in undue pressure on the players to perform, and ultimately in the team losing games it shouldn't have lost...
...unsuspecting youth in a lot of bizarre psychosexual games with his wife Francesca. (Adriana Asti), who is voluptuous and ostensibly psychotic. Sontag gives almost everything in clear, stagey medium shots (except for a few subjective long tracks and closeups to get us involved with the younger couple). The Bauers perform along the horizontal axis of this frame most of their contradictory scenes, confrontations and seductions. Tomas (and the audience too: we're on his side) keeps trying to figure out what's happening, yet the sequences are so quick, so close (and so inconclusive), with so few "alienation effects," that...
Meanwhile, Rosemarie Zadikov went to Washington, D.C., to interview James Taylor's older brother Alex and to hear him perform at the Cellar Door in Georgetown. Boston Correspondent Philip Taubman talked with several of Taylor's friends and traveled to Martha's Vineyard to see Younger Brother Hugh Taylor, Alex's wife Brent and her 3½-year-old son, "Sweet Baby" James. In Los Angeles, Sandra Burton interviewed Sister Kate Taylor, Asher and Fellow Musicians Carole King and Danny Kootch. Atlanta Correspondent Peter Range journeyed to Chapel Hill, N.C., to visit with Mother Trudy Taylor...