Word: skit
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...three teachers prepared a skit in which an argument arose after an errant rollerblader ran over a sunbather...
Indeed, the whole school seems a wonderful mosaic of activities and classes and inquiries. In the library, the Tech Scouts, a group of computer-savvy students, show off their Website and online magazine. Up in the Girls Inc. room, students replay a "feminized" skit, based on Snow White and Cinderella, that they performed at a conference. In Brent Duckor's "Democracy, State and Society" class, Senior Institute students openly and persuasively challenge his assertion that they are being cynical. ("You win," he says. "You're not at all cynical...
Incorporating this style throughout the performance reveals the true depth of creativity and talent in the dancers. The segment "Accordion To You," in which two people fight over a piece of toast while an accordion is played in the background, has a more of a skit-like quality than some of the other segments. The movement here, while just as impressive, is more playful and calls on the performers to be actors as well as dancers. "Limning Twilight," in contrast to "Accordion To You," is slower and more expressive. The choreography is not as much playful as it is polished...
...endless, playfully mean riffs of "No Neck Joe"; the pitiful, worst-nightmare explorations of the body's connective tissue in "Lloyd's Lunchbox"; and the masterpiece of comic timing, "Dirdy Birdy." These shorts endure and generate fresh laughs with every viewing just like any sturdy, well engineered joke or skit...
When Spacey was a guest host on Saturday Night Live, the writers had him croon a Sinatra tune while subtitles quipped, "Kevin Spacey plays psychos...because he really is a psycho." He loved the skit, hated the media's typecasting. "Some of these films explored certain areas of how we treat each other that I find horrific, and that's why I wanted to do them," he says, practically seething. "But I have 16 years of work behind me, so I reject the notion that that's the only way people view...