Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exasperated with this final bucking and snorting because they believed the most intractable problems were all resolved. TIME has obtained documents that provide the details of the agreement the parties are near signing, even if they can't bring themselves to go ahead and do it. Here is a sketch...
This messy business is never fully explained, but the commotion gives author Zencey room for a fond sketch portrait of a man he clearly admires. Adams bustles about crime scenes pretending to courage he doesn't really feel, an animated footnote annotating in Greek and Latin. He marvels at fingerprinting, then just coming into use in Paris, and at "instantaneous" communication by pneumatic tubes. For a time he suspects that one of the villains is his friend John Hay, later to be a U.S. Secretary of State. A gendarme confronts him at an awkward moment: "Oh, dear, Monsieur Adams. This...
Last week a real-life version of Pryor's comedy sketch was played out among a rarefied band of right-wing intellectuals. At its center: Dinesh D'Souza, a 34-year-old Indian-born conservative wunderkind who has made a name for himself by bashing women, gays and minorities ever since he presided over the Dartmouth Review, a fecklessly racist student publication, in the early '80s. Today he is a case study in assimilation through bigotry, an ambitious immigrant who has achieved minor celebrity in his new homeland--and a sort of honorary status as a white man--by taking...
...syndicated Stephanie Miller Show, which has just debuted on 148 stations (with a starting time between 11 p.m. and midnight on most of them), combines interviews with sketch comedy. Miller, a former stand-up comic with a furrowed brow and frozen incredulous grin, has the mean challenge of competing against Leno and Letterman. But she is ready for the sniper fire. "I'm a complete unknown," says Miller, who is the daughter of William E. Miller, the conservative Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1964. "I'm a woman. If I made it, in a way it would be kind...
...hopes to interview "offbeat celebrities you may not see elsewhere." Her guests on the first week, however, were the sort of offbeat celebrities TV has managed to overexpose thoroughly, like RuPaul and Roger Clinton. Miller's real twist on the late-night formula is to employ a trio of sketch players who perform three or four skits each night. So far, the material has been topical and clever: one sharp sketch featured a Woody Allen impersonator directing a teenage girl in a Calvin Klein...