According to an academic paper detailing its exhibition history, " 'Ice Bag' never functioned for longer than a few days at a time, and, even then, it performed only part of its intended motion.
And even if it performs only modestly, that should be enough to justify its existence because the alternative would be repeats of "Diagnosis Murder" and "Walker, Texas Ranger".
(Kozinn) LOCRIAN CHAMBER PLAYERS (Tonight) This ensemble's rule is that it performs only works written in the last decade.
When the Kronos Quartet gave the world premiere of "Quartet II," it performed only a condensed, three-hour version.
The actor's directing debut, it performed only adequately at the box office in 1994, despite reasonable reviews.
Under certain test conditions, it performed only slightly better, and even sometimes worse, than a coin toss.
To avoid overburdening the server's memory and processors, the researchers pared down the cloned software so that it performs only essential actions.
This is one of those moments in which it is best to aspire to the ordinary, and I happily settle for the way it performs only the most rudimentary functions: boil, bake, broil, braise, roast.
But though it has a huge following in Scandinavia and devoted audiences elsewhere in Europe, the group is virtually unknown in the United States, probably because it performs only in Norwegian.
In trials it performed only marginally better than a placebo.
