Word: performancy
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...hoped a new venue would further his commitment to helping unknown musicians find a place to play, much as he did in 1973 when he opened up CBGB on New York's seedy Bowery and invited original artists to perform sets - something most established venues in the city wouldn't do. "Clubs didn't let you do that," he remembered. "I guess you could sneak in one or two songs, but if you didn't have a big record out, they didn't want [you]. They wanted covers. They wanted you to play things that people know. I felt originality...
...MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS In the dank days of the Ceausescu regime, a college girl seeks an illegal abortion, and finds just the wrong guy to perform it. Beautifully acted, and as creepy as any horror movie, Christian Mungiu's drama earned the top prize at this year's Cannes...
Karaoke--and the performance culture it stands for--is not just about ego and entertainment. It's a way of playacting the skills of a networked world, where shyness is a handicap. In the YouTube era, overcoming shyness is the equivalent of killing a mammoth in the Ice Age: an essential survival skill and milestone achievement to be celebrated in picture and song. There is no greater go-to movie scene today than the one in which people throw inhibition to the wind and perform: the climactic Super Freak dance in Little Miss Sunshine, the Age of Aquarius singalong...
...winsome, quizzical look of a class clown who gets the girl only by accident, not the heartthrob played by John Travolta in the 1978 film. And Osnes's lovely, sculptured singing voice does struggle at times to get heard over the small but well-miked house band. But they perform all the dance moves required, don't have any trouble with the lines, and (unlike some others in the cast) actually are convincing as high school students. You could do a lot worse...
...Though the rate of abortion has generally been dropping since the mid-1990s, U.S. doctors still perform nearly 1.3 million abortions a year, and the percentage of those using mifepristone continues to increase. According to a recent report from the Guttmacher Institute, "at one large network of providers, the proportion of early abortions performed with mifepristone increased from 9% of eligible women...