Word: performance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Petri is a sardonic stylist whose freewheeling camera can perform some incredible acrobatics. In A Quiet Place, it weaves around, goes quickly in and out of focus, moves jarringly from one object to another, all to evoke a sense of edgy anxiety...
...medical (including dental) practitioners, about 450,000 of whom are women. Petrovsky claims that the U.S.S.R. has more doctors than the U.S., Britain and France combined; one-fourth of all the doctors in the world are Soviets. In addition, Russia has well over 500,000 feldshers, who perform the same duties as a trained nurse in Western countries, plus many of the minor tasks normally handled by physicians...
...Moore's words, Language "stars four of what are apparently leading Scandinavian sexual technocrats, with brilliant cameo roles for the functioning flesh of various unnamed actors." The pedigreed experts drone on about the psychology of orgasm while nude sexual acrobats perform illustrations. "It purports to be an animated Little Golden Book of marital relations," wrote Judge Moore, "or perhaps the Kama Sutra of electronic media, although the film is nowhere nearly as rich in the variety of its smorgasbord of delights as comparison with that ancient Hindu classic might suggest. It may be the vulgate scripture, the Popular Mechanics...
...member said that the Radical Arts Troupe would also perform at registration and at the picnic. "We also hope to have several people-men and women-at the mixer to discuss the issues of chauvinism and women's liberation," he said...
Last week a Women's Medical Center with a dozen volunteer physicians and 40 counselors opened in mid-Manhattan to perform 60 operations a day at charges of from zero to $50. With a few more such clinics, the city will be able to take care of its own residents. But the city and state will continue to be hard-pressed by the influx of nonresident patients until abortion statutes in other states are liberalized...