Word: skits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Green) plainly state their mission--to present all of Shakespeare's plays--and take off like horses from a starting gate. They begin with a comparably lengthy rendition of Romeo and Juliet, continue with truncated versions of the Tragedies, and, with time running short, condense the Comedies into a skit in double time, and further distill the Histories into a few symbolic football plays. The Compleat Works ends in a rush when the players boil Hamlet down to five breath-taking words...
...thing I remember most was a Saturday Night Live skit," Dukakis said at the event, which was part of the Institute of Politics' Summer-in-Boston program. "They had [Dana] Carvey doing this fabulous impression of Bush, and they pan to Jon Lovitz--playing me--and he says 'How could I be losing to this...
...thing I remember most was a Saturday Night Live skit," Dukakis said at the event, which was part of the Institute of Politics' Summer-in-Boston program. "They had [Dana] Carvey doing this fabulous impression of Bush, and they pan to Jon Lovitz--playing me--and he says 'How could I be losing to this...
Over the course of our visits to the Gallaghers earlier this year, I noticed a gigantic toothbrush gradually taking shape in their living room. Finally, I just had to ask what was going on. It turned out that their son John, a seventh-grader, was putting together a skit with a group of other kids. Their short play was loosely based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, except that it was set inside a gigantic mouth, and the main characters were teeth. The theme involved not a tumultuous relationship but the invention of the electric toothbrush. Yet part...
...starts in the fall, as each team picks a specific "problem" from a list provided by OM headquarters and sets out to solve it in an imaginative way. The problems are quirky, to say the least. One of them requires a team to put on a skit about a sales transaction that includes several elements: a "memorable customer, a demonstration of an original product that reflects some aspect of the culture in which the performance takes place, and the resolution of a problem involving the business." The kids must also present a "technical element"--a mechanical device of some sort...