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Carol Burnett
Carol Burnett , 1936-, American television performer, b. San Antonio, Tex. Beginning her show-business life as a singer, she soon turned to comedy. After starring in the off-Broadway play Once upon a Mattress (1959), Burnett achieved success on television as a regular on The Garry Moore Show ... Read more |
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sketch
sketch a rapidly executed kind of pictorial note-taking. The sketch is not usually intended as an autonomous work of art, although many have been considered masterpieces in their own right. Used extensively in the planning of large, complex projects, the sketch allows the artist to visualize... Read more |
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Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer 1894-1967, American writer, b. Washington, D.C., as Nathan Eugene Toomer. A major figure of the Harlem Renaissance, he is known for one work, Cane (1923), a collection of stories, poems, and sketches about black life in rural Georgia and the urban North.... Read more |
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Joseph Fields
Fields, Joseph [Albert] (1895–1966), playwright. Son of Lew Fields and brother of Dorothy Fields and Herbert Fields, he was born in New York and attended New York University with the intention of becoming a lawyer. While in the navy during World War I, he wrote sketches for shows and... Read more |
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John Pendleton Kennedy
John Pendleton Kennedy John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870), a prominent American novelist in his time, served briefly as President Millard Fillmore's secretary of the Navy. John Pendleton Kennedy was the scion of a cultivated Baltimore, Md., family. He graduated from Baltimore College in 1812... Read more |
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Robert Smith Surtees
Robert Smith Surtees , 1803-64, English novelist. He created John Jorrocks, the sporting grocer, who appears in Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities (1838), a series of humorous sketches first published in the New Sporting Magazine, which Surtees had helped to found in 1831. The novel Handley Cross ... Read more |
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John Addington Symonds
John Addington Symonds , 1840-93, English author. Educated at Harrow and Oxford, constant ill health exiled him for the greater part of his life to Italy and Switzerland. His many writings include travel books, Sketches in Italy and Greece (1874) and Italian Byways (1883); literary essays, ... Read more |
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Sir William Orpen
Sir William Orpen 1878-1931, British portrait and genre painter, b. Ireland. He is best known for his scenes of Irish daily life, his paintings and sketches of life at the front in World War I, and his portraits. His paintings Myself and Venus (Carnegie Inst., Pittsburgh) and Leading the Life in... Read more |
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Joel Chandler Harris
Joel Chandler Harris 1848-1908, American short-story writer and humorist, b. Eatonton, Ga., considered one of the greatest American regionalist writers. As an apprentice to the editor of the Countryman, a newspaper published on a Southern plantation, Harris gained firsthand knowledge of black... Read more |
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Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson 1925-2005, American television entertainer, b. Corning, Iowa. Carson, who grew up in Nebraska, began his career as a magician, then wrote comedy sketches for radio and hosted daytime television quiz shows. From 1962 to 1992 he hosted "The Tonight Show," where the personable... Read more |
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Carol Burnett's Sketch Comedy, Sketchily Reprised
...should be cut for Carol Burnett? Let's be liberal...slack she needs. Burnett gave her best years...wasn't -- not for Burnett's style of comedy...reprise of a happy life and times, with...skelter editing. Sketches on the old ... |
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Carol Burnett: A Life Sketch
The classic bits from "The Carol Burnett Show" are all here, from Starlet...A new PBS documentary, "Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character," showcases...like that on the air now," said Burnett, 74, who rose to comic stardom... |
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PBS finds Carol Burnett to be 'Woman of Character' "American Masters: Carol...
CAROL, I'M SO GLAD we had...of the amazing Carol Burnett, just seeing all the...90-minute show is Burnett's rarely seen, but...interview last summer, Burnett said she was doing a...in all those familiar sketches makes you ... |
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PBS finds Carol Burnett to be 'Woman of Character'
CAROL, I'M SO GLAD we had...of the amazing Carol Burnett, just seeing all the...90-minute show is Burnett's rarely seen, but...interview last summer, Burnett said she was doing a...in all those familiar sketches makes you ... |
 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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"BURNETT SHOW' CO-STARS ARE NOW BACK "TOGETHER'; TIM CONWAY AND HARVEY KORMAN...
...and 1970s on "The Carol Burnett Show," where even...That included one sketch on the CBS variety...the "The Carol Burnett Show". Q) Are...We met on the "Burnett Show," so we...delightful to pick on in life. ... |
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Carol Burnett is the subject of two programs in the weeks ahead.(Originated...
...15 years since Carol Burnett's hit variety...and professional life in ``Carol Burnett: Just to Have...ET. Though Burnett is not interviewed...the series of sketches about Ed, Eunice...to return to TV ... |
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Bob Mackie, Carol Burnett to get Dallas apparel awards.
NEW YORK - Carol Burnett is candid about...collaborator on "The Carol Burnett Show," Bob Mackie...run. Mackie and Burnett are receiving awards...when I would read a sketch, I wouldn't know...He saved a lot of ... |
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Harvey Korman, TV comic with Carol Burnett OBITUARY
...Korman, TV comic with Carol Burnett OBITUARYByline...second banana to Carol Burnett on her television...did on 'The Carol Burnett Show,' especially...on his own real-life grandmother," she...their weekly ... |
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Through the laughs, tears, and years with `Carol Burnett'
...Television Review Carol Burnett:A Woman of CharacterOn...the end of "Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character...lady whose personal life has thrown her some nasty punches. The Burnett you'll meet in...brilliant skills as a ... |
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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BURNETT'S NEW BOOK VITAL IN HER LIFE AND DAUGHTER'S.(Local)
...Hearst News Service Carol Burnett - America's TV...we hit bottom." Burnett, 54, calling from...widow portrayed by Burnett. In the immediate...Videocassettes of famous sketches from the show are...point of Burnett's ... |
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