Word: performancy
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...With a tastefully understated interior and a range of expensive tipples, Rui Fu is being heralded as yet another antidote to the tawdry dance clubs that have been a mainstay of the capital's youth-oriented nightlife in recent years. But how will Beijing's new, sophisticated hostelries perform in a frugal city where it's still possible to knock back a stiff gin-and-tonic for a buck? Though Drake concedes that Face is "certainly a high-risk project," the initial response from the glitterati has been positive, and plans are afoot to add a Middle Eastern restaurant...
...writes in an e-mail. “We have so much amazing support from students. At our first introductory meeting, 30 people came, which was incredibly gratifying.” Each OUR HUAM event will feature an eclectic mix of entertainers. At the first, a harpist will perform in the Renaissance Art Gallery, a piano player and guitarist/singer in the main courtyard, and another guitarist and singer in the corridor on the second floor. The event will also feature performances by the Harvard Ballet Company and the Harvard Veritones a cappella group. The meeting will also include presentations...
...Mirror.” Bottom: From right to left, Samantha G. M. Barnard ’09, Sara Collins and Anna Haas, both seniors at Emerson College, Julia A. Rudolf ’10, Katie W. Johnson ’07, and Kristina A. Dominguez ’10 perform “One.” Harvard’s first production of “A Chorus Line” will run from Oct. 27-Nov. 4 at the Aggasiz Theatre...
...transformed herself from politically opinionated singer to full-fledged political activist. No longer was her show about pleasing her audience, instead it was about presenting a set of talking points to be made so that the Democrats can take back the House. Her audience had come to see her perform, but her performance took second seat to her political message. Although her display of righteous indignation was met with applause, the applause should really have been for her singing, not for her politics...
...creating a campus-wide technology infrastructure for research purposes. DEAS acquired the system from IBM early this fall and researchers began operating at the beginning of October, according to Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Venkatesh Narayanamurti. “The unique architecture that combines performance with scalability in a tremendously efficient power and floor space design,” is what makes the system special, Sircar wrote in an e-mail. The CrimsonGridBGL’s enormous processing ability—4,096 processors performing 11 trillion floating-point calculations per second, using five times less...