Word: performativity
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...through it as fast as you can, while only having a rough reference of what it is because it's written out like chicken scratch." Oh, and then if you're Downey, you probably improvise a couple of versions that are better than what's on the page and perform those too. "He really, really wanted it," says Susan, 34, his wife of 2 and a 1/2 years, a producer he met while making Gothika in 2002 and by all accounts the crucial member of Team New Downey. "Other than Chaplin, it's the role he's gone after...
Shakespeare's birthday on April 23 will be marked by an extraordinary relay. Over 24 hours, 60 groups of youngsters from New Zealand to Hawaii will enact excerpts from his plays. As part of this project, a Serbian youth group will perform Romeo and Juliet. How will they respond in a country so scarred by its own history of tribal divisions? Life has taught me a hard lesson about the power and impact of that play: my father, who died in 1970, banished me from his life because I played Juliet in a school production that dared to confront...
...significant margin. At the championships, Harvard will see the same two-day, 54-hole setup, with the first two rounds being played on the first day and the last round on the next. “We proved ourselves and we’re in the right place to perform well next weekend,” captain Jessica Hazlett (86-84-80-250) said. Despite leaving Mamaroneck, N.Y., very happy, not everything was always so rosy for the Crimson. In the first round of play on Friday, no Harvard player shot better than 84. “The first round...
...necessary or even allowed. Hong Kong saw action realism as a badge of honor; Hollywood was the fantasy factory. And its action-film stars were such valuable commodities, they had to be handled like preemies. The studios were breeding these men for 20-to-30-year careers. Let them perform their most daring stunts? Nah, we have people who do that...
...little magic and far too few spaceships. 3) Harvard-Radcliffe Society for Creative Anachronism vs. Current Magazine. What’s so special about the present? The 16th century was fun enough. 4) Committee on Deaf Awareness vs. Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra. If you can’t perform Beethoven’s 9th with sign language, don’t do it at all. 5) Helping Hand and Heart vs. Harvard Emergency Medical Services Program. The Medical Services Program is tired of helping neglected legs and lungs. 6) Harvard College Pre-Dental Society vs. Harvard College Culinary Society...On second...