Word: take-off
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...second puppet show was obviously a take-off on "Little Black Sambo," entitled "Little Black Panther." if does not take much imagination to guess the alternations in plot...
...Take-Off Pants. The costume look-or the "rich hippie" look, as it is sometimes known-is not just the prerogative of the young. Socialite-Artist Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper, 44, is one devotee. Greeting guests at her recent one-woman show in Washington, D.C., she wore silver lamé harem pants, matching vest, rhinestone earrings,'bracelets, a brooch and six gold rings. "My dressing is a natural extension of my art," says Gloria, who specializes in collages...
...next day, a few of us were waiting at the airport trying to catch a flight back to Boston. A flight through Cincinnati and Washington was about to leave. We stood, un washed, bleary-eyed in the half-fare line. Just before take-off, Larry O'Brien, ex-Postmaster General now masterminding Bobby's campaign, arrived. We hissed. He turned, glanced at our buttons, smiled. We told him we would see him in California. The Crusade had still to reach the Holy Land
...Harvard Draft Union, an autonomous organization sponsored by SDS, has begun anti-draft organizing on campus. If successful at Harvard, the Union could easily spread to other universities across the country. But the problems it faces during the take-off stage are no less formidable than its potential...
...come from the provinces to seek fame and fortune. En route to both, there is much stumbling into mud puddles, through roofs and down excavations. There is a paint-spraying scene in one restaurant and a pie-throwing scene in another (both of which seem endless), and a clumsy take-off of an art preview, in which mechanized sculpture chases people around and sprays some more paint on them...