Word: performancy
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...financial crisis through their politically driven efforts to securitize mortgages that should not have been made in the first place), the emergence of government bailouts, and the overall shift to a more state-involved economy, we are beginning to see free-market assumptions wither away. Banks no longer must perform meticulous cost/benefit analyses for each and every loan or investment they make, and troubled financial firms can afford to take on even more risk knowing that the government and the American taxpayer will have their backs...
...create beauty," says Pham Thanh Tam. "I wanted to convey uplifting, spiritual feelings and fragile emotions." His delicate pencil sketch Carrying the Mail Down the Ho Chi Minh Trail (1968) captures an everyday tableau but poignantly so. In other pieces, iridescent young men and women in traditional dress perform the quotidian chores of transporting water and collecting wood...
...natural match for Paul Simon and Sesame Street, it also enabled them to spread their message of understanding into the political realm as cultural ambassadors. Anti-apartheid activists in South Africa and abroad took Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s music as an unofficial anthem. In 1994, the group performed at the inauguration of Nelson Mandela, the first black president of South Africa. Shabalala and company have hardly slowed down since, producing a steady stream of recordings and maintaining an energetic touring schedule. “Every time when we perform, we feel that people never get enough...
...This was a real big one for me,” West said. “In college squash, you get very few shots to play the top guys. I get one chance in the year; you have to perform on the day. I think this might have been the best I have ever played...
...November, the CEB conducted a two-part poll which asked students to name a preferred genre for campus performances and to create a wish-list of up to ten artists that they would most like to see perform at campus events...