Word: impromptu
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...Wednesday cast meeting, Cohen gave an impromptu preview of her role in VM as a sixty-something lady who has resisted becoming close to a man after her first orgasm at age 20 and now has reluctantly submitted to an interview on her sexuality. In a convincing if inconsistent Brooklyn drawl, Cohen delivered her monologue with a stage confidence that revealed her expansive experience as a Spoken Word performance poet. Comparing her vagina to a “cellar” (a part of the house that “no one talks about”), Cohen?...
...Wednesday cast meeting, Cohen gave an impromptu preview of her role in VM as a sixty-something lady who has resisted becoming close to a man after her first orgasm at age 20 and now has reluctantly submitted to an interview on her sexuality. In a convincing if inconsistent Brooklyn drawl, Cohen delivered her monologue with a stage confidence that revealed her expansive experience as a Spoken Word performance poet. Comparing her vagina to a “cellar” (a part of the house that “no one talks about”), Cohen?...
...bombs. And yet on Jan. 30, widely predicted to be the most dangerous day since the end of the war--so dangerous that the government banned vehicular traffic--the streets seemed to be overrun by children: playing soccer in the shadow of U.S. Abrams tanks, chasing other kids in impromptu games of catch, accompanying their parents to polling booths, decked out in their newest clothes. "It's a big day, and I wanted my girls to experience it," said Amina Hussein, a Baghdad housewife, as she and her husband tried to subdue three giggling preteen daughters at a voting booth...
...short of manpower. One of the prisoners has a suggestion: "Why don't you give me one of those guns, Sergeant? I'll help fend off the black hats." It happens that this Good Samaritan is a black hat--a notorious cop killer. Oh, well, imminent death makes for impromptu comrades. Grab a rifle, pilgrim...
When the teen pop star--marketed as the edgier little sister of blond confection Jessica--got caught lip synching on Saturday Night Live in October, she danced an impromptu hoedown before scurrying offstage and then attributed her need for prerecorded help to acid reflux. That's funny. We assumed SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels would be the one gulping down antacids...