Word: performances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When I perform, it's very personal," Kaufman says. "I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room." He means this literally. The Mighty Mouse record he sings along to is his own, from childhood; the cartoons he shows-including a couple of kindergarten antiprejudice tracts-were long-ago gifts from his grandfather. "The audience," says his collaborator Bob Zmuda, 29, "is asked to become babies again." This is a sort of low-level exercise in primal manipulation that might turn precious, like a Steve Martin extravaganza of silliness. But Kaufman, whether he chooses...
Earlier in April, cable operators were partly freed of an obligation to broadcast shows they did not want to carry. The FCC had long required cable stations to provide "public access" air time to just about any group that put together a show. Though some of the programs perform a real public service (consumer-advice shows, for example), many are excruciatingly dull (talk shows on which people-in-the-street rattle on about nothing in particular) and a few border on pornography (nude dancing on Midnight Blue over Manhattan's Channel...
...said scientists need to perform much more research on such questions as the quantity and quality of breast milk in malnourished mothers, different weaning times in different societies, and the emotional bonding between mother and child induced by breast-feeding
...sponsors are Busch beer and Citicorp. Campaigning a stock car today costs as much as $1.2 million a year. Yarborough is supported by a 17-man staff, including a pit crew of seven. They not only tune the 560-plus horsepower engine of his Oldsmobile to howling perfection, but perform miracles in the pits. They have changed two tires and filled the gas tank in 12.5 seconds, and have actually replaced an engine in mid-race in less than 13 minutes...
...Harvard men's track team continues to perform superbly but suffers from an unrelenting string of injuries...