Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there a mathematical structure behind parlor games like chess and poker? Von Neumann investigated and in the process invented game theory--a branch of mathematics that has brought new insights to fields as diverse as economics and evolutionary theory. The 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to game theorists, the seventh Nobel Prize that grew out of Von Neumann's ideas...
Whose Line, hosted with an easy bluster by Drew Carey (whose sitcom this show follows on ABC), is based on the British TV parlor game that made its debut in 1988. Performers are given characters to play, songs to devise, scenes to act out--all, we are told, instantly ad lib. A skit with a Zorro theme required that each actor's speech begin with consecutive letters of the alphabet. Series regular Ryan Stiles got the letter X. No problem: "Xavier Cugat once said...
Miss Leena, my first psychic, ushers me into a tiny parlor plastered with paintings of angels and cherubs. Her expression is brooding, her dark hair upswept, as she ponders my fate as revealed in a $40 reading of the tarot cards. My prognosis is good: successful writing career, marriage, long life. But, pointing to a card of a bushy-haired man waving sticks, she adds grimly, "There's something in the way of your good fortune." She offers to meditate further with crystals and candles...
...says Dorathy. "The greatest loss of all is the breakup of our family." The Barker children were forced off the land on which they had lived all their life--land on which they had hoped to set up various businesses, including a family dairy, day-care center and beauty parlor...
Then they jam-packed the stage with British folk singer/tradition bearer David Jones, actors Patrick English, Sarah deLima and Richard Snee, the 40-member Revels Chorus, a merry company of Music Hall "artistes," the Pudding Lane Waits, the Dingley Dell Dancers, a parlor orchestra, the Cambridge Symphonic Brass Ensemble, The Pinewoods Morris Meri and the Rose Galliard Northwest Morris, the Pearly King and Queen, and a fake ferret. Do you know what that means? Again, the press release speaks through me. Basically there are a lot of people on stage, no one is particularly charming or memorable, they do ridiculous...