Word: performativity
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...modify it on the fly, messing with your features or grafting your face onto other objects in ways that folks have been doing with Photoshop on computers for many years. The DSi makes it easier to do this, in a down-and-dirty kind of way, and you can perform similarly geisha-like parlor tricks with audio recordings, speeding up or slowing down your voice and so on. The multimedia stuff bored me. It also failed to charm my 11-year...
YouTube's Invisible Beethovens The YouTube musicians will have their horizons widened too. They'll perform with prominent soloists, including violinist Gil Shaham. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Lang Lang will make a video appearance. The musicians will rehearse the program during a classical-music summit at Carnegie Hall from April 12 through 15. They've already had a chance to study the repertory in online master classes hosted by professionals like Maxine Kwok-Adams, a violinist with the London Symphony Orchestra, who offers bowing tips for the Tan Dun piece...
...that approaches, many South Africans are weighing a suspicion that the ANC hasn't delivered on all its past promises because the party hasn't been made to. Granting the ANC a hefty majority - it won 66% of the vote in the last general election - obviated its need to perform: instead of focusing outwards on improving the living standards of the country, it focused inwards on improving its own. That hasn't gone unnoticed, and notwithstanding Zuma's populist appeal, may now be punished. "They're crooks," declares Lucky Maqutu, 33, an unemployed construction foreman in Mthatha and a volunteer...
...Harvard, I would like to know whether there are any janitorial posts open at Harvard College? Considering you told me that I did not score well on a test of trivia—SAT/ACT—and relied on that as a judgement of my ability to perform at your college, I was hoping if it would be possible to be admitted to Harvard via the working stream. I could enrich Harvard College by making it clean. Better than being a filthy student right? Plus, this will lighten your load of admitting via affirmative action. Thanks...
...Clint Eastwood films and Hollywood action flicks, Prabhakaran is considered to have practically invented suicide bombers. His "Black Tiger" bombers - almost half of them women - have killed thousands, including former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President Ranasunghe Premadasa. The elite Black Sea Tigers perform underwater suicide bombings to sink enemy ships. (Read "A Brief History of the Tamil Tigers...