Word: skit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skit began, says Skocpol, "[Wilson] sat in the audience looking serious, Al Gore-like, as he always does...
Every year the sociology graduate students at Chicago put on a program called the "Spring Follies" that includes skits about faculty members. One year in particular, when Wilson's urban poverty research received millions of dollars of grants from several foundations, his research assistants decided to do a skit about...
...skit featured a student playing Wilson as he went out into the inner-city to study poverty. Skocpol says the student playing Wilson knocked on a door in the ghetto and said, "Hello! I'm Bill Wilson, the Lucy Flower University Professor from the University of Chicago. And I have been given a million dollars by a prestigious foundation to study...
...Werner all sent emissaries. Some were looking to snag writers and actors for the mainstream entertainment maw. Others came to join the collegial ferment. Says Janet Blake, a veep at Walt Disney Television: "Where else can you have a lively discussion with Jimmy Breslin"--who presented a savagely witty skit about Newt Gingrich haranguing his first wife in her hospital bed--"and two minutes later be talking to Tony Kushner? Only in Louisville...
...after five months on the job. She has sued the R.N.C., describing a put-out-to-get-ahead atmosphere where backrubs, lap sitting and being called "pretty thing" were not unusual. Sexual-harassment fatigue kept Henson's suit from getting much attention until an R.N.C. video surfaced. In one skit, national convention manager Bill Greener hires a well-endowed stripper, insisting he's actually more of an "ass man"; in another, a man is made very happy by a woman under a table. Recently two women, one of whom now works for Senator Bob Dole, filed affidavits supporting Henson...