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...medical school, attending a particularly eccentric extracurricular performance.Either way, the audience should have been notified of the prerequisite for attending the performance—a knowledge of muscular anatomy. Such knowledge would have been the only way to make sense of the extensive nomenclature that was thrown at the audience during the performance. But the alien-sounding names ended up not being too much of a problem. Porter’s poetry is a close reading of the muscles that move us. It pays attention to the detail of these organs’ functions and the beauty of their synchronized...
...said.Performed within an elastic tubular fabric, the way in which Dakin shaped not only her body but the geometric space around her seemed to embody the abstract connections between clay and dance that the event sought to demonstrate.TAKING IT OUTSIDEFollowing her performance of the original piece, “Thrown,” Cohen of Racoco Productions explained how she came to explore clay and dance. “I felt uncomfortable just dancing in space,” she said. “The things around us are as much a part of our lives...
...only way to get Cathay's 25,000 employees working in harmony. The cabin crew, ground staff, gate agents and customer-service reps for any given flight are always different, so "every time you a have a flight that takes off, you have a new group thrown together for a project," says Jeremy Perks, a director in Beijing for IWNC, a corporate-team-building firm that has worked with Cathay. When those teams break down, Cathay is vulnerable to the same problems facing every other airline. For example, in June a mechanical problem delayed a Cathay flight in San Francisco...
Perino recognizes that she has been thrown to the dogs. "Sixteen months is probably the right amount of time to be press secretary," Perino says, with an eye to her departure date, but "I don't know if this is the best time to be doing it." She has already begun thinking about what comes next. After the election, she and her husband, a British businessman whom she met on a flight from Denver to Chicago in 1997, are planning a cross-country drive with Henry to the Rockies, but she imagines staying in Washington for work in one form...
...physical work that somebody does that helps reveal who they are and is part of the fiber of the story. Because you only saw this person in this movie making things and doing things in order to survive and to make this journey, and the fact that you were thrown back on that, as opposed to any dialogue, was interesting...