Word: impromptu
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...Moliere's Impromptu at Versailles, now playing at the Loeb Experimental Theater along with Chekov's Swan Song, a group of actors prepare a play for presentation before the King on very short notice. The play they are preparing is an oblique reply to a recent attack on Moliere and his comedies, aind in it a group of Moliere's enemies discuss the attack. In the process they show themselves to be just the sort of people Moliere had described in his previous plays. Periodically Moliere, who is directing the inner play, interrupts the rehearsal with instructions and the actors...
...something to talk about. He attacked Buckley's notable record of House absenteeism (present for only 34% of House roll calls last year), charged him with padding his House committee payroll to pay personal political aides. Each day Bingham strode through Bronx streets, shaking hands and making impromptu speeches, often accompanied by his grey poodle, named Yankee Poodle, who wore a sign, "Underdogs for Bingham." At campaign's end he came as close as he ever did to language that Charlie Buckley might really understand when he told a group of campaign workers: "If the ladies will excuse...
...foot. True, many people think that Castro's presence in the Western Hemisphere is intolerable and that he should be ousted-if necessary, even by an invasion of Cuba. But any such effort must be well planned, well timed-and, above all, successful. To urge an impromptu attack because of such a relatively minor irritation as Guantanamo's water-supply cutoff smacks to many of gross irresponsibility...
...affidavit that he had no knowledge "of any arrangement by which Reynolds purchased time on the TV station." Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said that the President had assumed the stereo to be a gift from "a longtime employee," not Reynolds. And President Johnson, in the course of an impromptu press conference, brought up the matter himself. Said he: "The Baker family gave us a stereo set. We used it for a period, and we had exchanged gifts before. He was an employee of the public and had no business pending before me and was asking for nothing...
Last March, the graves of six women were opened in the abandoned churchyard of St. Mary's, Clophill, Bedfordshire. One skeleton was removed, and was later discovered inside the church. Investigators assume that the church had been the scene of an impromptu Black Mass-which, properly performed, requires a live nude woman as altar...