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Word: jokeratura (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1964-1964
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...middle-aged, with a look that suggests the principal of a girls' day school-performs by herself for two hours. Her name is Anna Rus sell. Her show is called All by Myself, and the box office is selling tickets into August. She is a musical parodist and jokeratura who mocks every conceivable kind of composer, singer and singing style. Her audience comes in two varieties-devoted sectarians, who howl, giggle, and shake with uncontrollable mirth, and innocent theatergoers, who sit dumfounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Comediva | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

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