Word: libbed
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Schemmer doesn’t appear daunted. Rather than sticking verbatim to Grey’s script, Schemmer utilizes his own talents at ad lib. “Victor and Bobby are just like twins,” he says of two of the dancers. “Whatever Victor does, Bobby does; whatever Bobby does, Victor does. It all gets very confusing when they do each other!” Schemmer’s performance résumé includes playing “Elvira L’Infection” in the 2001 Pudding Show, singing with...
...reprise of the second verse with the inspired vocal filler "We got a chicken in the barn/ Whose barn? What barn? My barn!" (the drums whacking the "whose-what-my" to give it extra force and fun), then two softer, near-spoken verses - one with the ad-lib "You can shake it one time for me" and a brief impression of the Elvis baritone ("Did you hear me, I said come on over, baby" but, in the Presley style, omitting all consonants), the second a little sermon on shakin' ("All ya gotta do, honey, is kinda stand in one spot...
Somehow, somebody got the idea that Lance Armstrong could be beaten in the Tour de France this year. The talk started weeks before the event, indications that Spanish teams, which were riding well, were seeing chinks in his armor. Armstrong had won the Dauphiné-Libéré and the Midi Libre, two tough multiday stage races before the Tour, but he didn't win their individual time trials, events that used to be his strength. And didn't he finish second in the Criterium International last March? Didn't that show his vulnerability...
...terminally serious Meyssan, 44, launched the book on one of France's flashiest, trashiest talk shows, and he followed up with a string of controversy-churning TV appearances that further piqued public curiosity. The print press denounced the volume in turn - Libération retitled it The Horrible Swindle - but that too helped fuel purchases. The book now has the distinction of breaking the French publishing record for first-month sales previously held by Madonna...
...before any event, presentation or assignment. Terry Bradshaw, one of my colleagues, is a very naturally gifted guy—as much as people maybe have a wrongful perception that he is a rube, he is a wonderfully gifted individual, an excellent speaker. He can get up and ad-lib. While I might be able to do that, I wouldn’t rely on it as a steady diet. That’s not my strength, and Harvard helped me understand that because of the wealth of talent that was there. I never go into an assignment unprepared...