Word: skit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That at least is how the dramatic moment at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was envisaged by Broadway Playwright Neil Simon (The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite) and Comedians Tony Randall and Larry Blyden, who performed the skit before 19,000 cheering Eugene McCarthy fans in New York City's Madison Square Garden last week. As the star-fraught spectacular showed, politics this year has attracted an extraordinary input of pulchritude and intellect. In no other election have so many actors, singers, writers, poets, artists, professional athletes and assorted other celebrities signed up, given out and turned on for the candidates...
...disorganized skit at the union which gave the impression that the weekend would be a wild orgy...
...last night's kickoff skit is any indication, Freshman Jubilee weekend will be boisterous, messy, disorganized, and fun. To announce the plans for the weeked and promote ticket sales, the Jubilee committee and the freshman council put on a nonsensical skit which ended with the floor of the Union covered by olives and chocolate syrup...
...President may not always be right," says one girl, "but you have to admit one thing: he's consistent!" Adds another: "Boris says he won't believe it till he hears L.B.J. deny it." In one skit, Rowan interviews Moses as he demonstrates against the pharaoh, who is "discriminating against us just because we've got long hair, beards and wear sandals." Rowan: "Gee, I can't imagine anyone feeling that way. How is it going?" Moses: "Badly! The pharaoh says it's O.K. to dissent so long as you don't disagree with...
...door. He rends his cutaway till it looks like sackcloth and he looks like ashes. Scott's countenance of epic frustration is phenomenally funny: a middle-aged Lear confronted with a thankless offspring. The evening's master treat, a carnival of sight-and-sound gags, this skit shows how Simon and Nichols can take a sit uation no bigger than a snowball and dislodge an avalanche of hilarity...