Word: schoop
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...first type is reflected in Ed Hecimovich, 41, who had just sat down for a greasy- spoon lunch with his wife and three young children when the Secret Service swarmed Schoop's Diner in Portage, Ind., and Obama swept in for a cheeseburger. Hecimovich, a pipe fitter who twice voted for President Bush, asked the candidate about the economy, his top concern. Obama's answers impressed the independent, but he's still undecided. "I like that Obama stands for change," Hecimovich says. "But he doesn't have the experience...
...definitive Linguistic Atlas of England in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Orton and his colleagues revealed that had Gertrude Stein only known the farmers of England, her celebrated "rose is a rose is a rose" might have read a "rose is a hep is a shoop is a schoop is a dog shoop...
...Trudi Schoop, the one-of-akind dance comedian, is to appear with her comic ballet at Symphony Hall this Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. Often called the "Charlie Chaplin of the Dance", she has made this type of humor a real art and quite in a class by itself. The program has eight different scenes which include the Meyer Home. At the Hairdresser's. At Rehearsal...
...Manhattan last week Trudi Schoop and her 22 dancers began their first U. S. tour, which will take them through the Midwest to the Pacific Coast. Her first ballet was called Want Ads. Curtain went up on a motley crowd rustling through newspapers. When a young girl was jilted, she mounted a platform, intoned "For sale: brand new wedding gown, never been worn." More amusing was the scene wherein a chorus director was driven to distraction by a particularly inept performer who subsequently advertised herself as a "well trained, highly musical danseuse, accidentally still disengaged." Trudi Schoop appeared first...
...evening's second ballet was supposed to exhibit the Schoop comedy at its best. An innocent youth, Fridolin, reluctantly leaves his mother, ventures out into the world where his trials are many. He encounters seductive women, blustering athletes, religious fanatics, gets involved in a marriage and a host of bothersome in-laws, deserts them all with a shrug to find some other life. Throughout the many scenes Trudi Schoop was the picture of bewilderment, a small pathetic figure in a black sleeveless tunic, an absurd clerical hat. Her pantomime was always effective. She danced occasionally but she was just...