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...follow fencing. Then again, even Harvard students unfamiliar with the sport might have been unsurprised at the win once learning that it belonged to Emily R. Cross ’08-’10, a member of the Harvard fencing team who has long proven her ability to perform under stressful conditions...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: En Garde, World | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...seen as the spoiled daughter of a famous music-producer father, but she is happy to use this position to skip the line at a club. There is also no explanation as to why a band as supposedly great as Where’s Fluffy would only perform a gig at 6 a.m. and refuse to tell its loyal fans where to show up. “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” is clearly aiming to tap into some kind of indie-music zeitgeist. The two main characters have one particularly nauseating conversation where they...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...about a dozen people have been arrested, ranging from juveniles to a 36-year-old man, all of them African Americans. Under the local law, a first conviction garners a $150 fine or community service, a second one a $300 fine, and anyone who fails to pay up or perform their service could spend up to 60 days in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Saggy-Pants Furor in Riviera Beach | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

...delicate dance that Michelle is required to perform calls to mind the axiom that blacks must be twice as good as whites to get half as far. A few Democrats - and feminists - expressed disappointment at her convention speech, with its subtext of, Ignore my race and my Ivy League education and look how warm and maternal and unthreatening I am. But others, including, presumably, Michelle herself, recognized this soft approach as a necessity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Michelle Obama Would Bring to the White House | 9/27/2008 | See Source »

...tired-looking knots in front of the John Harvard statue or near the Science Center. Each has a leader, whose priestly position is designated by a roll of masking tape and an armful of posters. The devotees gather around these clan leaders to prepare their choreography. Who will perform the Sever-Lamont corroboree? What unlucky low-status tribesperson will be saddled with the Wigglesworth archways...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Postering in the Ethnographic Gaze | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

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