The performance was scarifyingly funny as a send-up of feminism’s much-maligned sexual “essentialism.”

China's official news agency said Saturday it will adopt the Chinese Pinyin phonetic alphabet beginning Jan. 1, when Peking will become Beijing (pronounced bay-jing) and the agency Xinhua instead of Hsinhua.

With which the damned ghosts he governeth, / And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth.

Acylation of 22 with in situ prepared angeloyl chloride in dichloromethane gave common intermediate 23 in 84% yield.