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A lot was said in the stretch leading up to the final about the contrast between the obvious intensity of the 4 Nations tournament and last Sunday’s N.B.A. All-Star Game, which was a bloated parade of celebrity and, for the players, a pantomime of effort.—
Louisa Thomas,
The New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2025 -
It must be said, however, that the performance sensibility is somewhere between English pantomime and a Nickelodeon sitcom.—
Rod Stafford Hagwood,
Sun Sentinel,
14 Feb. 2025
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As each mime insults at one another, their motions continue to grow more and more ridiculous, with Chloe Fineman and Ego Nwodim also jumping in at different points to offer their own emotive abuse.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
11 Feb. 2025
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Born Richard Capri in Reading, Pennsylvania, Capri honed his early skills as a comedian as a clerk in his father’s grocery store doing comedy mimes of the customers.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes,
27 Dec. 2024
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Amid Red Rocks Amphitheatre’s flurry of EDM and heritage-rock shows is this master musical parodist’s.—
John Wenzel,
The Denver Post,
16 Jan. 2025
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Tickets for the pop parodist are priced from $159 to $39 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. Yankovic, 64, began playing the accordion at the age of seven and grew up listening to Elton John, Spike Jones, Allan Sherman, Stan Freberg and Frank Zappa.—
Ross Raihala,
Twin Cities,
23 Sep. 2024
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The hat will be put to good use this weekend when Hager pays tribute to Red Skelton, the late pantomimist and radio and television comedian.—
San Diego Union-Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Aug. 2019
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Image Reo King Sanshiro, a pantomimist, was standing outside a Chinese restaurant on a busy street in Kumamoto City.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
21 Oct. 2017
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Passyunk Avenue also features a replica of the mummers costume Jason wore during a parade after the Eagles won the Super Bowl in 2018.—
Kirsty Hatcher,
Peoplemag,
28 June 2024
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For Martin, any rivalry between the shows is a mummer’s farce (that is, foolish).—
James Hibberd,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 July 2022
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Since his brief stint with the band Fleet Foxes, Tillman has built out existential concept records that span folk, big-band jazz, soft rock, and indie pop, with a satirist’s eye for the disturbingly absurd.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2025
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Jules Feiffer, a cartoonist, author, playwright, and political satirist who documented and defined a particular strain of 20th century Jewish-American experience in a career that extended over nine decades since the 1940s, died today at his home in upstate New York.—
Rob Salkowitz,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Meanwhile, Parliament has been reduced to what me and my party views as a rubber stamp for authoritarian policies.—
Imran Khan,
TIME,
28 Feb. 2025
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Standing in Bove’s way, is Manhattan Federal Judge Dale E. Ho, whose judicial role is not to be a rubber stamp automatically granting this motion, and must consider if a dismissal of the indictment is warranted.—
Arnold Kriss,
New York Daily News,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Mimer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mimer. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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