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...year-old Guzzanti says her satire is "a way of showing people they're not alone in noticing the lack of logic in Italian politics." She has made a point of mocking the bite-size electoral messages the opposition leader has plastered on billboards across the nation. In one sketch, her Berlusconi reveals the secret of his political success. "I got it from advertising," she has him say. "You choose your message and, even if it seems absurd at first, you repeat it on TV, in books, in newspapers, and after a bit it seems normal. Here's my latest...
...Character Sketch: Hillegass loved books; he felt strongly that his booklets should be used to enhance students' reading experiences, not take the place of reading the books themselves. Throughout his ownership of the company, Hillegass inserted a signed note into each Cliffs Notes booklet: "A thorough appreciation of literature allows no shortcuts...
...it’s not quite as simple as it looks. For anyone who has ever tried to sketch a doodle resembling Dutch artist Piet Mondian’s works, actually creating a balanced composition is frustratingly difficult. Adding color to such a collection of lines presents another challenge...
...examples, and his disquisition on the shape of the universe provides a surprising amount of interesting information to those of us who have never taken an astronomy course. And he gives what could have become a tired “is my waking life a dream?” sketch an abnormal punch with his well-written description of his dreamed identity as a butterfly—a dream he describes as so intense and vivid that he was left unsure whether he was a man or an insect upon waking...
...soon be born there. Most people with a big Broadway show about to open would be busy making fixes, rewriting lines, fighting anxiety. Brooks is mainly feeling recharged, in the way 74-year-old comic legends rarely are. "I haven't been this happy since I did my first sketch on Your Show of Shows with Sid Caesar," he says. "I'm back doing what I was born to do. And I love...