Word: switch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the most surprisingly wonderful of The Proposition's skits are its improvisations, which are eminently spontaneous, since they are based on situations suggested by the audience. The house special is an improvisation in which the actors switch acting methods in mid-scene on cue from Forster. Sunday night's special showed a husband and wife on a golf course, and even managed to work in another audience suggestion about a dilettante gravedigger...
...sophomores who, along with 30 rookies and free agents helped the Patriots open their training camp yesterday at Phillips Academy in Andover. He is now making the switch from flanker to halfback, and feels that the Patriots' new acquisitions have greatly strengthened the club and posed a difficult challenge...
...Your excellent article, ". . . And Now a Word about Commercials" [July 12], suffers from one serious omission. It does not mention a device known to the fraternity of electricians as the "blab-off." This consists of an electric cord of any length, with an on-off switch at one end, the other attached to the speaker in the set. With it you can turn off the sound as you wish, while the picture continues. Any electrician will install this thing for a trifling fee. The viewer then need not pay to the sponsor the "heavy tribute" of listening to commercials...
...home when a bodyguard opened fire. Police said the incident was the probable aftermath to a racial disturbance near by. - In Long Island's suburban Nassau County, police acted on a telephone tip and removed a fragmentation hand grenade set to explode at the turn of a heater switch in a car belonging to County Executive Eugene Nickerson...
...with wild, passionate abandon, embracing her laundry and squealing, "It even smells clean!" That's more than can be said for Sis. Poor kid, her best friend just told her she's got rotten armpits. As for Dad, he keeps getting punched in the eye because he won't switch his brand of cigarettes. So he asserts his virility by barreling around mountain roads in his wide-track, fastback, four-on-the-floor Belchfire with the racer's edge. And Junior, well, the sudden joy of discovering that he's got 27% fewer cavities has apparently unhinged...