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  • Noun. A contrived or conventional method for presenting music, stage theatre, or any performance.

    June 14, 2007

  • Good word. My dear husband uses a word of his own coinage, "perfunctatory" (related to perfunctory). Perforce, I assume the presentations you describe are quite perfunctatory.

    June 15, 2007

  • I like "perfunction" best.

    June 15, 2007