Word: performancy
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...Ronald has seen "Princess Ling Moy - Celebrated Oriental Dancer" perform, and the vision has made him woozy. "I wish I could find a word to describe her," this calf-man effuses. "Exotic - that's the word! And she's intriguing, if you know what I mean." In a near-clinch, Ling Moy wonders if a Chinese woman can appeal to a British toff. When he begs her to "chuck everything and stay," she asks him, "If I stayed, would my hair ever become golden curls, and my skin ivory, like Ronald's?" But the lure of the exotic is hard...
...Ling Moy, a nice girl, previously unaware of her lineage, might be expected to struggle, at least briefly, with the shock of her identity and the dreadful deed her father obliges her to perform. But Wong makes an instant transformation, hissing, "The blood is mine. The hatred is mine. The vengeance shall be mine." Just before his death, Fu mourns that he has no son to kill Ronald. But, in a good full-throated reading, Wong vows: "Father, father, I will be your son. I will be your son!" The audience then has the fun of watching her stoke Ronald...
...announced yesterday that their 12 Holyoke Street location will undergo a major renovation beginning in April and lasting through 2007. During the interim years, the HPT will still perform in a Harvard Square theater whose name will be announced shortly...
...space will accommodate other student performance groups during the months when the HPT is not using the space to rehearse or perform...
...kills the desire to be an academic and develop intellectually. Why should students participate in section? Since the majority of the class knows that they will unavoidably earn a B, there is no incentive to speak. Why complete the readings? A student knows all she has to do is perform better than the kid who sleeps through lecture, and that’s not too hard. In the end, the glut of middling grades given by a bell curve does not reward the extra effort students put in, leading to a feeling of apathy and defeatism among undergrads...