In the second half of his career Mr. Rivette, who turned 84 last month and is reported to be ailing, assumed a more reflective, autumnal tenor even as he deepened his exploration of longstanding themes like performance and artistic creation.
Through Saturday "Dancer," Dara Friedman's mesmerizing, loose-limbed 25-minute ode to the seemingly extensive, fabulously multicultural dance talent of Miami, extends her longstanding interest in performance, urban space and structuralist film.
"Does it encourage the manager to go for broke?" asked Burton Greenwald, an industry consultant in Philadelphia, pointing to a longstanding criticism of performance fees at traditional mutual funds and hedge funds.
I was at Rutgers, and there's this longstanding [conceptual] performance history there.
Among the 150 events featured in this mammoth and longstanding festival are performances by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which James Conlon will lead in Mahler's "Symphony of a Thousand" and semistaged productions of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" and "Abduction From the Seraglio".
Also, subscribers can cancel at any time and reschedule for another performance, a longstanding policy that Roundabout officials say is partly responsible for their company's popularity.
Longstanding concerns about his performance have burst into the open as a result of declining poll ratings and Gordon Brown's statement that an election is unlikely before 2009.
The three-page document, "Thoughts Pertaining to Youth, Hot Rodding and Chevrolet," is considered by many to be the foundation of the brand's longstanding pursuit of high performance.
A BNP Paribas spokeswoman said the bank's personal issues with Mr. Scotto "resulted from longstanding deficiencies in his performance as a manager and were unrelated to any research recommendations he made".
Israelis and Palestinians have each had longstanding grievances about the performance of the security services, and there is still skepticism about whether the new security chiefs will bring sweeping changes that have been sought.
