Word: performance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peter Sellers continues his comic decline as that grand guy, Guy Grand, who amuses himself by bribing athletes and actors to perform outrageous acts of public-and usually pubic-harassment. Together with his adopted son (Ringo Starr), he perambulates the English countryside looking for preposterous spectacles to stage. Their prankish piece de résistance is the launching of an ultraexclusive liner, The Magic Christian, which they quickly transform into a ship of ghouls...
...Crimson expects to stay anywhere near, Columbia, it will have to perform better than it did last night against Cornell, Harvard threw the ball away frequently, often falling to get a shot, and because of poor offensive rebounding, often got only one shot at the basket per offensive play. The result was 19 fewer shots that Cornell had, a crucial factor in the Crimson's defeat...
...Bippies" (Boston Yippies) have announced they will perform guerrilla theatre around the city to "celebrate the guilty verdict...
Although only two per cent of the sun will be visible in Cambridge on March 7, this sliver will effectively block out the scientifically interesting portion of the sun, the outer corona. Therefore, in order to perform several experiments which require a total eclipse, scientists from around the world will be convening in southern Mexico...
...presidency, the Mormon rolls expanded from just over 1,000,000 to 2,815,000. He opened five new Temples: in Oakland, Los Angeles, New Zealand, Switzerland and London. The Temples -not to be confused with lower-ranking Mormon meeting houses-enabled Europeans for the first time to perform the sacred Mormon Temple rites, such as "endowment" (a vow to live church principles) or "sealing" of marriages "for time and eternity," without traveling to North America. Missions grew from 43 to 89. Mormon dioceses, called "stakes," grew from 191 to 496. Conversions in foreign countries soared. There were...