Midway through the piece, the performers grew quiet.
Carlyle said on Monday that its leveraged buyout funds, along with its real estate funds, were its best performers, growing about 5 percent in the quarter each.
But what we have so far is a feast for connoisseurs, and a lesson in style to performers growing up in an anodyne age.
Examination of some of the writers and performers growing out of the Beats: Bob Dylan, rock music, especially from San Francisco, and jazz.
Jerry Lewis, born Jerry Levitch in Newark, to two traveling vaudeville performers, grew up insatiably hungry for approval and searching for a father figure.
These two polished performers grew up together on Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills, Calif., and when they join voices at the end of the show, you feel the relaxed camaraderie of childhood friends.
But for the most part, today's young performers grew up admiring black American comedians and treasuring bootleg copies of Eddie Murphy movies because there were so few local artists to revere.
WITH bottled water -- no color, no flavor, no image to speak of -- turning out to be one of its star performers, growing far faster than colas and other carbonated soft drinks, PepsiCo plans to spend millions of dollars to promote its Aquafina brand in the coming year.
Ceremoniously removing his figures of wire, wood, cork, leather and hand-sewn fabric from valises — two at first, and then, as his acts and performers grew in number, five — Calder would methodically arrange his rings, his trapeze and his high wire to entertain comrades with a circus that was more well-mannered French than raucous American in style.
Those are consistent performers growing at or above Internet growth rates.
