Word: performancy
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...editing error, an earlier version of the Mar. 23 news article "Rapper Kid Cudi To Perform At Yardfest" incorrectly stated that last year's Yardfest was the first time the event featured two acts. In fact, Gavin DeGraw and Wu-Tang Clan performed at Yardfest in 2008, and Ratatat and Sarah Bareilles performed...
...After I finished my heat, it became a waiting game [to see how opponents from other heats were going to perform],” Clarke said. “There were three girls who had beaten me earlier by less than a second, so I was really nervous to see how they would...
...Shirts are not the only ones to perform blood rites. Sondhi Limthongkul, leader of the anti-Thaksin Yellow Shirt movement and the owner of ASTV satellite news network, spread menstrual blood at the base of a statue in a black magic ritual meant to neutralize Thaksin's supernatural weapons. It was just one of several acts staged by Sondhi with black magic overtones...
...astrologers, he also shot his reflection in a mirror to foil anyone plotting his assassination and rode on a rocking horse inside a plane that circled a pagoda nine times. Burma's feared former intelligence chief Gen. Khin Nyunt was rumored to have dressed up as a woman to perform black magic ceremonies, known as yadaya che in Burmese, supposedly to sap the power of his female archrival democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (See pictures of Burma's slowly shifting landscape...
...have to tell yourself that you can’t worry about the result,” Omodele-Lucien explained. “If you worry about the result you won’t perform well. The most important thing in a tight situation like that is to play your game well and focus on each shot rather than the score...