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Word: skits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skit about Prohibition, or rather prohibition of study aides at the Law School, Gangster Dutch Elm (Kerry F. Osborne) runs a black market outline-selling ring. Don't worry, the long arm of the law eventually catches the criminal...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Law Students Joke In Annual Revue | 11/15/1985 | See Source »

...three girls are running the best sorority on campus, and popularity is still the most important thing. They handle life the same way they handle the annual contest between the Greeks--they keep doing the same skit, year after year, as long as it keeps winning...

Author: By Jennifer L. Mnookin, | Title: The Old College Try? | 11/7/1985 | See Source »

Some protesters even performed student skits designed to demonstrate CIA wrongdoing in Latin America. The Nicaraguan Affinity Group sponsored a skit which portrayed CIA agents as trenchcoated communist killers who accuse and kill an innocent Nicaraguan school teacher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Equal Opportunity Murderers" | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

ANOTHER MAJOR disappointment also mars the performance. At the start of the show, a pink-clad troubadour emerges from a fanfare and a see of light. He holds up a scroll-like banner, announcing the name of the next skit. The house lights blacken, and seconds later Marceau, dressed in his far less elaborate white costume, poses in readiness on the exact spot that the troubadour held. How does he make this miraculous switcheroo? The audience finds out at intermission, when the Marceau look-alike troubadour comes out to take a bow with his boss...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingston, | Title: Miming His Own Business | 3/1/1985 | See Source »

...skit at the Douglas Elementary School in Columbus, a character named Uncle Harry, played by an adult leader, grosses out the second grade by putting some Big-Bearish moves on his seven-year-old niece Sally, with whom he is baby-sitting in front of the TV on Saturday morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Facing Up to Sex Abuse | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

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