Turning some kind of freakishness into a performance -- a job, not a condition -- was how a lot of otherwise unemployable people made their livings.
A coming-out performance in a job he may hold for the next decade.
He was easily confirmed by the Senate and designated by the president as the government's "chief performance officer," a job that Mr. Obama proposed in his presidential campaign.
The open records law was also used to scrutinize the performance of a job creation agency he championed.
Even so, he conceded that Mike (and Shum) was "not the strongest singer", an assessment echoed in the "decent singer" characterizations from Hyman and Kubicek, and the former called the performance a fine job while the latter wrote that "Mike Chang is the total package".
As a performance artist -- a job definition, he says, that suits him as much as "social satirist, puppeteer or schmendrick" (a Yiddish term for nobody) -- Mr. Zaloom takes trash (if not himself) seriously.
The payoff on everything from better school performance to holding a job, raising a family, staying out of jail, and contributing to, rather than being a burden on, society can be as much as $16 saved for every dollar spent.
As time went on, I ended up getting a performance job in a variety show called City Streets at San Diego's Sea World and lost track of Eric.
At least, if there are relevant standards of merit that could be applied to the applicants and that would predict successful job performance, a lottery to select who gets the job would not qualify as selection according to merit.
With a check of that watch, he's back thinking about tonight's performance of Chicken Soup With Barley, itself a job landed via the sitcom.
Woodward is director of elite performance at the British Olympic Association, a job he has held for the past five years following a spell working in football with Southampton.
