Word: libbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lib Writers. In that tradition, producers try to leave so little to chance that TV has spawned a group of craftsmen who call themselves "audience participation comedy writers.'' Not only do they interview prospective participants and write the ad-lib banter between contestants and M.C.s on such shows as Two for the Money and Edgar Bergen's recently ended Do You Trust Your Wife?, but their lines are carefully rehearsed...
...gallows after dutifully confessing their party errors, there was no great public show trial of the Polish "Titoist" Gomulka. One of the reasons for this was that the stubborn Gomulka could not be broken, stubbornly refused to make an abject confession. Fearing that some of his ad-lib remarks in court might involve others in their wartime duplicity, his Politburo comrades found reasons to delay Stalin's orders for a trial. They delayed the arrangements so long that Stalin died before the trial could take place...
...small, warm voice to make an immediate impression. She is also as beautiful a girl as you could wish, of which fact Liberty has taken advantage with no less than thirteen large color portraits on her latest album. Despite the visual effects, though, her best LP remains the first, (Lib. 3006) with just Guitar and Bass. If you like your songs sung intimately and on the slow side, she's your dish...
Mike Wallace is a smooth professional with an uninhibited delivery; Margaret Truman is perky and unaffected. Together they conduct smooth and alert ad-lib interviews...
Later, at the same function, he recalls that after the inevitable exchange of names, home towns, and courses. If the girl he is dancing, with "has a full set at teeth and is not notoriously eczematous, someone else will cut in and recommence the sparking ad-lib...