Word: skit
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...play within a play, only the player doesn't know he's in it. That's a beguiling idea for a Saturday Night Live skit or one of David Ives' miniature metaphysical farces. But can such a notion sustain a full-length film (even one that clocks in at a svelte 102 minutes)? And will the film satisfy the mass audience's interest in what is, after all, a Jim Carrey Summer Movie...
...skit, in particular, recounted the persecution of a mentally-retarded, FAS-afflicted child by other youths. The performer, Eddie Red Feather, recalled that his peers once convinced the boy to place a fire-cracker in his mouth and smoke it as if it were a cigarette...
...plans to use somewhat unconventional methods to reach out to its audience. The health care workgroup, for instance, will present an outdoor street skit about someone denied adequate health care because of excessive bureaucracy and HMOs to draw attention from passers...
After playing out the skit with various endings-an argument and a compromise--the teachers broke the class into small groups...
BARNEY "THE DINOSAUR" AGE: 200 million HEIGHT: 7 ft. WEIGHT: Won't divulge OCCUPATION: Children's TV host BEST PUNCH: Suing over a long-running skit in which the Chicken would "punch, flip, stand on and otherwise assault the putative Barney...