Word: performancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...election was only the beginning. If we don't perform, we'll be held accountable?and we should...
...Myung-Wha used to fall asleep at the keyboard until one day her mother turned up with a cello and a cello teacher. "I had never heard a cello," she recalls. A year and a half later, at eleven, she became one of the first people in Korea to perform publicly a cello solo. An uncle brought five-year-old Kyung-Wha a quarter-size violin. In a week she could play anything on it by ear and carried it everywhere. Only Myung-Whun remained at the piano...
...book depends on its originals, it also detaches itself from the concerns of the detective novel. The narrator appears to mock the readers or himself, to perform little changes in the Sherlockian from that betray his aloofness. For instance, in spite of his skillful story, the author endeavors to give the piot a fine little flaw (involving the two women of the adventure). In addition, some of his sentences are disjointed in a profoundly jarring way, as if they have been lifted straight from the canon and scrambled slightly to fit the story here...
...musicians seem eager to perform and the occasional pauses are strictly for the musician to have time to choose his next selection, not some contrived union or contractual obligation...
Russian Roulette. When a woman enters the hospital for a biopsy, her surgeon usually asks her permission to perform a mastectomy if the biopsy should be positive. Thus most women go under anaesthesia without knowing whether they will wake up breastless or not. Surgeons defend this practice on the ground that it reduces both the risk and the expense of two operations. Even so, some women would rather know beforehand what they face, and some surgeons agree that there is no harm in waiting a few days between a biopsy and a mastectomy. "A cancer isn't going...