Word: mimed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...arrived at my office chaperoned by curator Phil Pritchard, who has been traveling 110 days a year with the Cup for the past 13 years, thereby spending too many nights sleeping on hockey players' couches instead of with his wife. Phil gave me white mime gloves so I could experience the honor of lugging the 3-ft., 35-lb. trophy around for the day. Next week I'm painting Phil's picket fence...
...arrived at my office chaperoned by curator Phil Pritchard, who has been traveling 110 days a year with the Cup for the past 13 years, thereby spending too many nights sleeping on hockey players' couches instead of with his wife. Phil gave me white mime gloves so I could experience the honor of lugging the 3-ft., 35-lb. trophy around for the day. Next week I'm painting Phil's picket fence...
...United Nations may be trying to send the elderly a message. For next year's World Assembly on Aging, the U.N. chose a mime as its spokesman and goodwill ambassador. "I do not know why they chose me," said MARCEL MARCEAU before a performance in Connecticut last week. "They asked me. I didn't ask for it. Maybe because I'm an example of vitality?" Indeed, Marceau, 78, still performs his sad, white-faced act 200 times a year. He's less clear on what his U.N. duties will be. "I don't know. What did Muhammad...
...This city is over!" shouts a character in City for Sale, a recent offering by the San Francisco Mime Troupe, which has been serving as the city's theatrical conscience since the 1960s. By all accounts there's been a war going on--between neighborhood preservationists and developers, between low-income artists and the dotcommers who've invaded their turf, between small businesses that can no longer afford skyrocketing rents and the chains, real estate offices and pricey boutiques that can. Says Mime Troupe playwright Joan Holden: "It's been a David-and-Goliath knock-down, drag-out fight...
...showstopper was a comedy act known as "Super Sunday." Based upon a popular television show in Taiwan, Super Sunday is a Telephone-like game that features a series of participants drawn from the crowd who try to mime a concept to one another...