Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...working, a string of nine devilish burlesques which the Theatre Company plays to the hilt with hilarious effect. Cummings' satire rapidly shatters several dramatic styles, bits of folklore, hundreds of hollow platitudes and idioms, and the comparatively serious tone of the rest of Him. One sketch has a side-walk hawker selling a miracle cure for a disease called "cinderella." Another, an off-color parody of the "Frankie and Johnnie" legend, is interrupted by a representative of the Society for the Contraception of Vice. The funniest and least subdued skit takes place at "the Old Howard's conception...
...America, Australia, Alaska and Canada for this season's footage, and 12,000 ft. of film are required for every 1,000-ft. program: "An animal does not usually do the same thing twice," explains Meier. "You can't say to your actor, 'O.K., today you walk up and lick the stump...
...elastic, expressive face of English Teacher David Lommen, who comes from Minot, N. Dak.., made him famous within a week. Lommen had been told that Polynesian children could not learn to distinguish the th and z sounds of English. He accepted the challenge. Now when he takes a walk, he is sometimes followed by kids dancing after him and hissing...
...have different cuts, so if you can't fit into one particular brand, try another one. When laced, the boot should feel tight and should really bother you a little, but make sure that your toes are not pinched. The heel should not move upwards when you walk or lean forward...
Borrowing a moment from Tea and Sympathy, for example, he achieved the evening's most uproarious moment by having his heroine take the hand of her shy and inhibited hero and jam it inside her mink coat. With splendid originality, he had two characters walk offstage during one long talky interchange, then reappear, still talking, thus creating a sense of a conversation that had been going on for at least 200 years. "But Mike's main contribution, more important than those bits, was his sense of comedic values," says Schisgal. "He knew how to integrate the work...