Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some questions for Yeltsin when he came to see me on Monday. "It's not clear to me what kind of commonwealth you're setting up," I said. "Both politically and legally, it's just a concept, a sketch, inviting all sorts of doubts and questions...
...young cartoonists sketch situations and issues that affect people of any race, but they treat them with a distinctively black sensibility. Says Brandon: "A lot of what I deal with is universal, but I do it the way we talk about it." Thus when Brandon's character Lydia is considering a name for her baby daughter, her friend suggests African-sounding names like Imani and Shafiq before Lydia decides to pay homage to the soul-and-gospel singer Aretha Franklin. Bentley's Herb wakes up with the universally shared problem of "morning breath" -- and the specifically black hassle of "morning...
...Jerry Parsons, Grossman gives perhaps the most professional performance, developing a character sketch through details, such as the way he holds a pair of eye glasses. Especially while searching for a set of lost keys, Grossman seems completely comfortable and confident on stage...
...Pitches headlined the show, and after two all-male opening groups performed, the audience eagerly awaited some singing by sopranos and altos. A rather lengthy opening humor sketch took some of the punch away from musical side of the group's program. But when the Pitches invited Archie Epps on stage to sing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" with them, this move replenished the flagging energy of the audience--the electricity was palpable...
...sketch called "Crossover King," for example, Leguizamo satirizes Hispanics' desire to be accepted into the mainstream by playing a Latin who transforms himself into a pseudo-samurai businessman. Eyes squinting behind thick spectacles, Leguizamo lectures members of an imaginary Hispanic audience on how they too "can be Latino-free" if they just work hard enough at being Japanese. "Our computer graphics project that after only six years in the crossover program, Tito could become Toshino," he explains, "the quiet, well-dressed, manicured, well-groomed, somewhat anal-retentive overachiever who is ready to enter the job market at the drop...