Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TELEVISION Ben Stiller stars in a sharp comedy-sketch show...
...first animated film to feature Mickey Mouse and a synchronized soundtrack) to "The Prince and the Pauper," Disney's 1990 animation short. The exhibit includes preliminary drawings, movie posters, and frames of celluloid animation film ("cells"). The sequence of drawings for "The Prince and the Pauper" includes a story sketch, which captures the mood of the story; rough drawings of the extreme points of the character's movements; "clean up animations"; and a cell with a painted background that can be used for more than one frame--the ability to reuse backgrounds is important since one second of film consists...
Finally in 1985, he was invited to be a regular on SNL. It was the turning point of his career. His Fernando character set a new indoor speed record for trajectory from late-night sketch to universally understood wisecrack. Today people still beg him to flash the insincere smile of the fading, macho heartthrob of the '50s and intone, "You know, dahlings, it is better to look good than to feel good." By Monday morning, from junior high cafeterias to white-shoe law firms, "Excuuuse me" had been replaced by "You look maaahvelous." He also struck gold with Willie...
...question or his rivals' response; each understood that many Americans would be paying attention for the first time, and that oldies for some would be goodies for most. The President, who often uses English as if it were his second language, was coherent, but almost listless. Rather than firmly sketch his plans for a second term, Bush made a plea for four more years that was almost plaintive. In 1988 Barbara Bush said, "I can't explain it, but yes, the camera shrinks him and makes him look small...
...when asked what sort of settlement this kind of pressure might eventually produce, European diplomats sketch an arrangement that sounds suspiciously like a 1992 version of Munich: essentially a division of Bosnia into three highly unequal parts. Bosnia's Serbs might not hold on to quite all of the territory they have conquered; their leader, Radovan Karadzic, asserts that they would settle for 64% of Bosnia rather than the 70% they now occupy. Croats would get most of the rest. Bosnia's Muslims would be left with little more than the few towns and slivers of countryside they now hold...