Word: performance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Like The Battle of Algiers, it is a re-creation of an actual incident, recalled in a spirit of quiet fury. Working with only two professional actors, the maiden and the official. Bertucelli persuaded the inhabitants of a remote village-who had never seen a motion-picture camera-to perform their lives without a trace of self-consciousness or restraint. As a result, watching Ramparts of Clay is like looking at the sun-almost unendurable for long. The ritual slaughter of a ram, for instance, becomes a cataract of blood and pain...
...American style and the Lao style are so disparate that no American will believe that a Lao can be trusted to perform well. And as long as there are Americans around to "help out," to give the natives the benefit of their expertise, then Lao casualness will continue to be taken at face value, as a sign of hopeless incompetence...
...found that Mr. McNeil did not meet the requirements for a 10-cent pay raise, let alone a 20-cent raise," Coleman said. He added that in a private meeting a week ago, one of McNeil's co-workers-who had at a previous demonstration testified that McNeil did perform electrician's apprentice tasks-could not guarantee that McNeil had done even six months of such work. Six months of electrician's apprentice work are required for a 10-cent per hour pay increase, one year's work for a 20-cent raise...
CHICAGO-Henry Kissinger '50 knew he mustn't let his fellow alumni down. For, as even the most informed in the audience would have acknowledged, they had come not to have their opinions changed or confirmed, but to see a Presidential assistant perform...
...threatening to get its second touchdown in a 37-14 loss. The Dartmouth players who were pulled out at that moment probably do, though. And it wasn't until the Big Green had rolled up a 48-0 advantage over Columbia that the second offense got a chance to perform...