The most common version of the Sparrow today, the AIM-7M, entered service in 1982 and featured a new inverse monopulse seeker ( matching the capabilities of Skyflash ), active radar fuse, digital controls, improved ECM resistance, and better low-altitude performance.

The campaign featured designers such as Marcel Wanders, Yves Behar, Karim Rashid, Ulla Darni, and Dror Benshetrit and performance artist Jurgen Hahn.

Laminar flow wings, which improved high speed performance, also came into use on fighters such as the P-51, while the Messerschmitt Me 262 and the Messerschmitt Me 163 featured swept wings that dramatically reduced drag at high subsonic speeds.

Show and the legendary list of performers ( including a performance by James Brown that many critics have called the best of his career ) marked a high point for Jan and Dean, as they were the hosts and one of the main featured acts as well.

In March 2012, Bacon was featured in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play, ' 8 ' — a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage — as Attorney Charles J. Cooper.

The Salt Lake City performance of the tour is featured on the DVD Lewd, Crüed & Tattooed.

Although Dixit was featured in a supporting role, she gave a show stealing performance.

Dr. Demento featured this gaseous performance on his radio show in Los Angeles in the early 1970s.

Crash is also featured on the cover of the film, a scene taken from their performance which was later recreated for the Rodger Grossman's Germs biopic What We Do Is Secret.

It was sold as Pentium with MMX Technology ( usually just called Pentium MMX ); although it was based on the P5 core, it featured a new set of 57 " MMX " instructions intended to improve performance on multimedia tasks, such as encoding and decoding digital media data.

When her family requested she be featured in the following year's ceremony, the Academy stated they did not honor requests and Lee was omitted because her contribution to film and her legacy were not deemed significant enough, although she had been nominated for a Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Pete Kelly's Blues.

Simon and Garfunkel returned to England in the fall of 1968 and did a concert appearance at Kraft Hall which was broadcast on the BBC, and also featured Paul's brother Ed sitting in on a performance of the instrumental " Anji ".

A performance at the Guggenheim Museum in November 2008 featured choreography for paired dancers from the Khmer Arts Ensemble by Sophiline Cheam Shapiro.

Laboulaye arranged events designed to appeal to the rich and powerful, including a special performance at the Paris Opera on April 25, 1876, that featured a new cantata by composer Charles Gounod.

The pregame festivities honored the end of the Iran hostage crisis ( which was announced 5 days before the game ), which featured a performance by the Southern University band.

It was produced by Disney and featured over 3, 500 local children from different ethnic backgrounds and a performance by boy band New Kids on the Block, with special guest Warren Moon.

It featured songs from many of his musicals, including a performance of " Send in the Clowns " from A Little Night Music by Judi Dench ( reprising her role as Desirée from the 1995 production of that musical ), and performances from many other stars of opera, Broadway, stage and screen, including Bryn Terfel and Maria Friedman.

* Titan the Robot, an electronically controlled dance and stage performance costume featured in Big Brother 2010 ( UK )

To commemorate the centenary of the first performance of The Importance of Being Earnest, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation on 13 February 1995 ; directed by Glyn Dearman, it featured Judi Dench as " Lady Bracknell ", Sir Michael Hordern as " Lane ", Michael Sheen as " Jack Worthing ", Martin Clunes as " Algernon Moncrieff ", John Moffatt as " Rev.

It featured a shambolic but serviceable performance on the A-side and a muddy live recording of Sexboy on the B side, recorded at the Roxy for the Cheech and Chong movie, Up In Smoke.

The song was not used in the movie, nor was the band, the only band not to receive a call-back to perform live for the film's " Battle of the Bands " sequence, perhaps due to the fact that the Germs ' chaotic Roxy performance had featured an unscripted, full-on food fight.

In 1979, creative differences pulled the band in different directions, leading to the Document and Eyewitness LP ( 1981 ), a recording of a live performance that featured, almost exclusively, new material, which was described as " disjointed ", " unrecognizable as rock music " and " almost unlistenable ".

The featured performance was culled from a concert filmed at the Nokia Theater in Grand Prairie, Texas on November 1, 2007.

It was almost completely compatible, but featured a 32-bit data bus ( although keeping the 24-bit address bus ) for somewhat faster performance.

Lithman's guitar playing technique earned him the nickname Snakefinger, after his frantic playing on the violin during the performance with the Residents at The Boarding House in San Francisco 1971, where his fingers ' speed made them look like snakes in the eyes of the less-musically proficient, but imaginative Residents.

The first performance of the band using the name " The Residents " was at The Boarding House in San Francisco in 1971.

In October and November 2011, the Residents presented an early version of Sam's Enchanted Evening at The Marsh performance center in Berkeley, with the lead singer appearing as " Randy Rose ".

In addition BMI's online database of the performance rights organization ( of which the Residents and their publishing company, Pale Pachyderm Publishing ( Warner-Chappell ), have been members for their entire careers ), lists Flynn and Fox as the composers of all original Residents songs.

After performing for Queen Elizabeth II at a command performance in 1979, Haley made his final performances in South Africa in May and June 1980.

TaikOz, a taiko performance group has been performing in Australia since 1997.

Devo also confirmed that they would be performing at All Tomorrow's Parties on May 6 and 8, with the May 6th performance featuring the band performing their first album, Q: Are We Not Men?

While these behaviors are not formally part of the job description, performing them can certainly influence performance appraisals.

One of Friedman's most infamous concerts was a 1973 performance in Buffalo, New York ; upon performing " Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed " ( a song that lampoons feminism ), a group of what Friedman described as " cranked-up lesbians " entered into a fight with the band and forced the concert to end early while Friedman and the band were escorted off stage.

Karachi is home to many theatre, music and dance performance groups, such as Thespianz Theater, a professional youth-based, non-profit performing arts group, which works non-stop on theater and arts activities in Pakistan.

By and large, the true nature of the performance is not discussed by the performing company in order to sustain and promote the willing suspension of disbelief for the audience by maintaining an aura of verisimilitude.

On occasion, a performance of " You Enjoy Myself " involved Gordon and Anastasio performing synchronized maneuvers on mini-trampolines while playing their instruments.

This kind of performance for variable-length keys can be achieved by grouping all of the keys that have the same length together and separately performing an LSD radix sort on each group of keys for each length, from shortest to longest, in order to avoid processing the whole list of keys on every sorting pass.

" and " Turn the Beat Around ", then a special performance by Stevie Wonder and Estefan was given performing Estefan's hit " You'll Be Mine ( Party Time )".

* Script ( performing arts ), the dialogue and instructions for a play, musical or other performance work

Ono headlined the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago on July 14, 2007, performing a full set that mixed music and performance art.

Another marching band tradition features four sousaphone players performing the dance routine to " Long Train Runnin '" at every post game performance by The Ohio University Marching 110.

Comedians and others performing hoaxes often adopt aliases for their performance role.

The performance at London's Olympic Stadium opened with a special remastered video clip of Freddie Mercury on stage performing his call and response routine during their 1986 concert at Wembley Stadium.

The Oakland Ballet, performing in the city since 1965, folded temporarily in 2006 due financial problems and the closure of their performance facility, the Calvin Simmons Theater at the Kaiser Convention Center.

When designing the poster for the performance, Baez considered changing her performing name to either Rachel Sandperl, the surname of her long-time mentor, Ira Sandperl or Maria from the song " They Call the Wind Maria ".

In February 2009, Gabriel announced that he would not be performing on the 2008 Academy Awards telecast because producers of the show were limiting his performance of " Down to Earth " from WALL-E to 65 seconds.

In addition, two complementary awards are given: The Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts, recognizing the voluntary services to the performing arts by an individual or group, and the National Arts Centre Award, which recognizes an individual artist's or company's work during the past performance year.

Recently, film footage taken by Fred Stone of Astaire performing in Gay Divorce with Luce's successor, Dorothy Stone, in New York in 1933 was uncovered by dancer and historian Betsy Baytos and now represents the earliest known performance footage of Astaire.

( Cotogni and Marconi had sung together in the first London performance of Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda in 1883, performing the roles of Barnaba and Enzo respectively.

His accomplishments from 1989 to 1992 included testing the F / A-18 and A-7 aircraft ; performing research work with NASA on pitch control margin simulation and flight ; completing the first military flight of F / A-18 enhanced performance engines ; piloting the first flight test of the National Aerospace Plane external burning hydrogen propulsion engine ; developing a new handling qualities rating scale for high angle-of-attack test ; and participating in the F / A-18 out-of-control recovery test program.

On July 21, 1990, Lauper joined many other guests for Roger Waters ' massive performance of The Wall in Berlin, performing " Another Brick in the Wall, Part II ".