A performance status of 2 tends to encompass quite a broad spectrum with some patients being reasonably fit and well enough for a trial of chemotherapy while others, closer to a performance status of 3, are best served by best supportive care.
Richardson's unflagging erudition, meticulous reporting, insatiable digging, clever connections, and vast and deep personal knowledge of the players makes this series much closer to a performance piece of biography, the definitive text.
Feather said he plans to travel to Philadelphia on Sunday to catch the closing night of a performance by BalletX that features two of his works — "Anaplumb" and "Magnapooter".
The taking down and putting up of those sunglasses provided a frame to contain the song, functioning like a curtain that marks the opening and closing of a stage performance.
Last month Rihanna hit a fan on the head with her microphone when she felt the fan got too close during a performance of "We Found Love". Watch the video of Rihanna's chip-throwing incident above.
The ceremony will close with a performance of the national anthem by Beyoncé.
Andris Nelsons' Prom with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra closed with a performance of Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony that can only be described as shattering.
Yes, the glammed-up gals were on hand at the pre-Christmas premiere and took to the stage at the close of the performance for a photo opportunity marked out by the apparently unyielding sullenness of Posh Spice (aka Victoria Beckham), who seemed to regard her erstwhile colleagues with the level of enthusiasm Macbeth reserves for the ghost of Banquo.
Jack Curry's article "3 Outs: A Night in the Life of Closer" (May 9) nicely illustrates the role of the closer, as a performance specialist, in major league baseball.
Arnold, at the close of a swirling, almost shamanistic performance at Miller, brought to mind a village elder singing into a tape recorder, the last master of her tongue.
