Word: skit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...influential and articulate minority, increasingly wonders whether Mrs. Meir and her Cabinet are being intransigent, particularly on the issue of the territories won from Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Perhaps the most savage criticism came in the form of a satirical revue called Queen of the Bathtub, which included a skit in which Mrs. Meir muses to herself about how she is always right. The production, which closed after 20 performances in Tel Aviv because of picketing by veterans' groups, heckling and government pressure, offered another sketch that had Defense Minister Moshe Dayan telling soldiers...
What made it a smash hit, and far more than an expanded honeymooners skit, was the Nichols style: timing, vibrance and a slavish attention to detail. Nichols and failure became antonyms. Barefoot was followed by The Knack, Luv and The Odd Couple. The director came to resemble Somerset Maugham's nouveau novelist, Alroy Kear, who read that genius was an infinite capacity for taking pains. "If that was all, he must have told himself, he could be a genius like the rest...
After several minutes of preliminary chanting, the ceremony is about to begin. Drama is the force and substance of Krishna knowledge, and the practice of Krishna observance will be conveyed by skit...
...revisions, apparently on orders from an official representing the all-powerful ideological section of the Central Committee. It is anybody's guess when Look Out for Your Faces will be performed again in Russia. Last week Moscow was buzzing with speculation on which of the show's skits, poems and songs had offended the Central Committee. Among the possibilities: > In one skit, performers hold up letters spelling out A luna kamila, a palindrome meaning "The moon has vanished." An official, hypersensitive about the Soviet failure to get a man on the moon first, might have seen this...
...First no movie in the plane and now this!" moans the wife. "Nobody can be dragged out and shot," counters the suspicious junior American ambassador (Ted Bessell), "without written consent of the American Government." But from this intriguing negative nothing develops. Gleason merely settles in for an extended Honeymooners skit, swinging on the billingsgate with his wife and rolling fried-egg eyes skyward at every silence...