Word: burlesk
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Cummings himself wrote: "I can express it in 15 words, by quoting The Eternal Question and Immortal Answer of Burlesk, viz., 'Would you hit a woman with a child? - No, I'd hit her with a brick.' Like the burlesk comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement." His typog raphy is also sometimes a cover for irreverences - and occasionally for obscenities...
Down Hanover is another legitimate skin show, the Casino. The Casino, less conscious of tradition than the Old Howard, offers "Burlesk," rather than the more genteel "Burlesque." Boston's famed Watch and Ward Society and other public indignation groups take little heed of either the Casino or the Old Howard...