Word: performancy
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Mendy tells his parents he has moved to the Holy City to be closer to God and starts working for Mike at Mike’s Place, the Jerusalem version of the Star Wars Cantina bar. Here Arabs and Jews co-mingle, yarmulke-wearing rabbi-types perform Bob Dylan songs, and, most importantly, Mendy can see lots of Sasha. Mendy has entered a world of extreme characters who use him, come to love him and ultimately betray...
Although the club is open to all kinds of musical genres, T.T.’s specializes in rock, folk, electronic and punk. Occasional hip-hop acts perform, but Millman says she tries to stay away from “kinds of music that don’t fit the venue, like reggae, jazz and extreme hardcore...
...propaganda present in last weekend’s presentation of Forte!, sponsored by the Office of the President and the Office for the Arts. However by completely mocking the entire event Schraa fails to offer any constructive criticism and only manages to insult everyone involved, including the student performers. In her attempt to portray Forte! solely as a calculated move by University President Lawrence H. Summers, she speculates about the motives for student participation without actually asking anyone why they performed. Ultimately, she questions the artistic integrity of the performers, whom she derisively refers to as “wannabe...
...Faust 1, Froehlich, who is also a Crimson editor, lets dialogue takes a back seat to frequent MTV-style sequences in which Mephistopheles’ minions perform grotesque and/or seductive routines to blaring rap. Those audience members who don’t keep their radio stations tuned to KISS may quickly find the dances tiresome. Nevertheless, some of these dances are strikingly effective; in the dramatization of Gretchen’s fall from spotless maid to teenage mother, the minions torment her, and then strip her from a frock down to a short, sexy black dress, after which she joins...
Downplaying Semuels’ dismissal by saying that several other people will take over her job responsibilities entirely misses the point, which is that she was able to perform so effectively because all mental health projects and initiatives were concentrated under her. Standing outside of University Health Services, the Bureau of Study Counsel, the Freshman Dean’s Office, the Office of the Dean of Harvard College, and all of the graduate schools, Semuels could focus an eye on the entire mental health picture at Harvard and intervene where necessary. With her former duties now parcelled out across...