Word: impromptu
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Lancaster & Co. flit in & out of Riff disguises, playing hob with tribal ritual and aplomb. Legionnaire Roland (Bullfighter and the Lady) feints through a free-for-all brawl, performing impromptu veronicas with a cape. A sexy blonde paralyzes the Legion by sashaying into the fort like a burlesque queen heading down the runway. All that is missing-and it seems ready to appear at any moment-is the sight of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in burnooses with a few words to say about the script...
Lowndes has conducted this benevolent patriarchalism from his residence at 20 Holyoke Street. Members of the Class of '55, bringing in their General Education themes, were awed by the Professor's wide knowledge of Oriental subjects, his impromptu concern over their respective futures, and his hospitality in trying to spoon them orange juice...
...Second International Gerontological Congress, meeting in St. Louis, had an impromptu session with ancient (somewhere between 43 and 51) Pitcher Satchel Paige, brought back from the Negro American league this season to throw his "nuthin' ball" for the St. Louis Browns. How did he keep in shape? To an impressed audience Satchel explained that he started early by avoiding beer, whisky, gin, tea, coffee, chicken livers and lamb. If you smoke, he added, don't inhale. "I just blows it out my nose." Playing ball in the summer, hunting every day in winter, also help...
Broadway Showman Billy Rose found himself co-starred with unwanted billing in an impromptu extravaganza featuring a part-time pal, blonde Actress Joyce Mathews, twice married to No. 1 Television Comedian Milton Berle and twice divorced. The show opened when Manhattan cops answered a frantic call from Rose. Joyce had locked herself in a bathroom of his luxurious private apartment over the Ziegfeld Theater. When the police arrived, Rose shrilled a few stage directions ("Don't tell any reporters about this! I want no publicity. It could ruin me! Please, no publicity."), then led the way to the barricaded...
...Germany's Gerhard Hecht, who promptly claimed that he had been fouled. When Robinson protested, the referee explained that a kidney punch is illegal in Germany, adding: "I have to call it a foul. I want to leave the ring alive." When Robinson flattened Hecht again, after an impromptu, one-minute rest period, he soon found out what the referee meant-and learned a little about German boxing fans. Angrily taking up the cry of foul, the crowd filled the air with a barrage of pebbles, pop bottles and seat cushions that sent Robinson scurrying for cover with...