Word: impromptue
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...happens by. The twelve-year-old daughter of a production consultant, for example, specializes in graffiti (her latest contribution: LASSIE KILLS CHICKENS). On taping days, the writers are everywhere, feeding lines on the set, in the halls, dressing rooms, offices and wardrobe department. Periodically, the cast members try out impromptu bits on one another, often walk before the camera and say the first thing that comes into their heads. Recalls Sammy Davis: "I was looking forward to appearing on the show. Joey Bishop was going to be on, too. But when we went into rehearsal, I was handed the fattest...
...House," and that he will continue it. After the exorcism, however, Dunn reminded one student that evil spirits still exist in droves outside the perimeter of the House--even as close as Mill St., which borders Quincy on the South, where former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara addressed an impromptu rally two years...
...deadlock was plainly beginning to irritate Lyndon Johnson, who is coming under increasing pressure to resume all-out bombing. After Deputy U.S. Negotiator Cyrus R. Vance flew back from Paris to brief the President on the talks, Johnson jabbed at Hanoi. "It is time," he told an impromptu White House news conference, "to move from fantasy and propaganda to the realistic and constructive work of bringing peace to Southeast Asia." So far, he declared, the North's only response to his bombing curtailment has been to pour in men and supplies "at an unpreccdented rate." Nonetheless, two clays later...
...York, are large enough worlds for a playwright. The city imbues him with conflict, crisis, tension. The city moves at a kinetic tempo; drama catches the beat. Like an opulent genius of creation, the city sketches a hundred finely shaded variations on a common human type, stages a thousand impromptu confrontations from dawn to dawn. All this is the adrenaline of drama, and in the U.S., only New York provides...
Thursday night, about 100 students formed an impromptu sympathy march in the Square. They walked to a Negro section of Cambridge on Western Ave., but they were turned away by a group of 25 Negro...