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"pantomime" Definitions
  1. (also British English, informal panto) [countable, uncountable] (in the UK) a type of play with music, dancing and jokes, that is based on a fairy tale and is usually performed at Christmas
  2. [uncountable, countable, usually singular] the use of movement and the expression of your face to communicate something or to tell a story synonym mime
  3. [countable, usually singular] (British English) a silly and confused situation synonym farce
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Like the pantomime, Phillipson's work is dramatic, immersive and emotional.
They have their own pantomime hysteria about Russia, for example.
Sex back then was almost always a pantomime of disappointment.
It's almost like a form of pantomime in the theater.
Things start off with a playful pantomime during the overture.
It's a pantomime, tapping into Americans' national pride for profit.
Others pantomime dramatic hand gestures while rehearsing their lines out loud.
Osmond completed a performance of the Peter Pan pantomime on Dec.
In pantomime, there's always a large man playing a female role.
My advice: Brush up on your pantomime skills and be patient.
I couldn't imagine him as a pantomime villain out of Dickens.
He also displays Mr Trump's pantomime contempt for journalists, apparently in earnest.
He's doing pantomime violence in the quasi-real maelstrom of New Japan.
It is also showing candidly an actor portraying an enjoyable pantomime baddie.
We even put on a pantomime show or two for one another.
He incorporates the pantomime into the dancing so it tells the story.
But the prime minister's progress through the country is a pantomime of democracy.
My working theory is that he's part of the pantomime-isation of politics.
It's a literal pantomime of the stuff kids might think to search for.
There was almost a pantomime quality to the instant familiarity of their work.
The pantomime is probably one of my favorite parts of the Prince role.
Year's Day, came a pantomime of normality: Morrison recorded a message in which
Harry Potter's influence has creeped into my Micah Grey trilogy, starting with Pantomime.
Instead, whenever a hereditary peer hangs up his ermine, a pantomime of democracy follows.
In my mind, it's like they're together in a theatre watching a pantomime villain.
It's farcical and asinine; a long-winded pantomime of curtseying and passing silk slips.
The Four Seasons pantomime will not be the end of the care industry's troubles.
But, like it or not, pantomime is a staple of the British entertainment pantheon.
Instead, I looked like I was practicing an elaborate pantomime of cross-country skiing.
He asked whether I would mind if he added some pantomime introduction to it.
She stands beside him and rubs her arms in a pantomime of being cold.
But, occasional pantomime aside, the science that is picking apart the cosmos is sacrosanct.
Our mothers made our costumes, and we performed in a Christmas pantomime every year.
KEEP THE PANTOMIME DAME Act II has to include Mother Ginger (or Mère Gigogne).
They are both given to frantic, pantomime-style gesticulation and shticky molto Italiano accents.
We've remarked less on the audacity of Trump's pantomime of godliness, given his core.
At the least you have to do a pantomime of altruism and self-effacement.
"It was really intense," she said, swaying side-to-side to pantomime her dizziness.
Mr Corbyn was variously portrayed as a pantomime villain and a threat to the nation.
Then, looking far less doughy than probably everyone imagined, he proceeds to pantomime karate gestures.
Right-wing YouTube host Steven Crowder doing a homophobic pantomime of Vox host Carlos Maza.
Though, of course, the diamonds were paste—it was all a joke, a pantomime sendup.
He looks at her, wondering if the pantomime demands some kind of response from him.
They'd been turned into this self-referential tabloid pantomime, where every song was about themselves.
He couldn't pantomime Puritanism; he'd emblazoned his name on casinos and the Miss Universe pageant.
But imagine him bobbing his head vigorously and occasionally pantomime dancing for the full effect.
Teller had copyrighted it as a pantomime in 1983, but hadn't revealed the underlying mechanism.
Yet Wilde's pantomime, his ostentatious dandy manner, is admirable for its droll and caustic intelligence.
If the Dolls pantomime seduction, then the J-Settes employ a style that is more explicit.
How much of Mr Trump's behaviour is concocted is debatable; private Trump is also pretty pantomime.
Ryanair, often the pantomime budget-airline baddie in these kinds of discussions, was a key offender.
So it's quite the pantomime dance that DeepMind and Google have been merrily leading everyone on.
In 1907, the two starred in a pantomime play called Reve d'Egypte at the Moulin Rouge.
We are a nation that is crying out for a pantomime villain to boo and heckle.
Floreal will pantomime a shot to the chest, sometimes falling into the arms of his teammates.
There is a lot of pantomime to it and a lot of show, and it's barbaric.
The execution process begins with a pantomime of a court process, lasting one to three minutes.
He revolutionized the art by introducing pantomime and the idea that a dance could tell stories.
Each body has accused the other of illegitimacy and of engaging in a pantomime of democracy.
In recent weeks, Dean has been unwillingly cast as the current pantomime villain in English soccer.
"Two of the most lateral thinking paparazzi had dressed themselves up as a pantomime cow," McAleese laughs.
But it helped me in the Prince's pantomime because you have to use all the facial expressions.
Several media outlets tested the program and published the results, making him pantomime feminist texts and vulgarities.
But they should demand proper briefings and opportunities for scrutiny going beyond the pantomime of regular ministerial questions.
Why choose Jeb Bush trying to be a pantomime bad-ass when you could have the real thing?
He still had faith in the aesthetics of silent movies and rightly considered himself a master of pantomime.
The apology-as-a-sign-of-obedience is part of a pantomime the left demands from its adherents.
Paris, who indulged in the gaudy pantomime of learning about employment with Nicole Richie on The Simple Life.
The photograph captures him on a military plane, mugging for the camera as he performs a lecherous pantomime.
Drawing on pantomime tradition, they have reformatted the story to feature a little more glitter and social justice.
The film captures them enacting a possibly willful pantomime of gracious living while practically ankle-deep in squalor.
" "Parliament's pantomime now continues while business suffers impossible uncertainty which will only worsen investment and the worrying business climate.
Yet it had become a hollow experience, a rote, mechanical pantomime of the rituals they'd all come to follow.
No other man or woman has accomplished that feat, and to celebrate, Bolt shot off a few pantomime arrows.
Others, like Lamar Alexander and Lisa Murkowski, acted out a pantomime of judicious contemplation before falling into lock step.
All of this has nothing to do with strength, and it's less paradigm of masculinity than pantomime of it.
LONDON (Reuters) - Competitors galloped and neighed through the streets of southeast London on Sunday in a pantomime horse race.
We love "Downton Abbey," Shakespeare and John Oliver but studiously ignore prawn-cocktail-flavored crisps, Cliff Richard and pantomime.
The performance was titled "184 Seconds," and with it, DelGaudio obscured a virtuosic feat within a pantomime of banality.
The pantomime was complete with a reference to Vladimir Putin and talk about Russian hackers influencing the last U.S. election.
But these are performers who spit and fuck and cuss and ooze fierceness even after they undress from the pantomime.
The point of her pantomime seemed to be that even getting bombed was better than being hidden under a burka.
By 7, she was already writing, showing up at school with a pantomime of "Sleeping Beauty" for friends to perform.
Gendered thinking no doubt contributed to Thatcher's image as a pantomime villain in Sheffield and other outposts of deindustrializing Britain.
"Corbyn's comment was to the wider situation in the House of Commons and its pantomime-type behavior," the spokesman said.
Imagine Liberace on steroids, donning his most Vegas-ready sequined ensemble to pantomime a parody of a professional athletic event.
In 1942 Else Fisher, who later married Bergman, wrote, directed and choreographed "Beppo the Clown," a pantomime that he produced.
But otherwise the stage was cluttered and awkward, with pantomime battles and swirling circular dances crowded into the uneasy stasis.
It's part crime saga and part cultural-historical pantomime, jumbling together real people, places and events from early-1960s Harlem.
But Spain's politics look more stable than Italy's, with its fading mainstream parties and the pantomime-horse of populists in government.
Mr van Beurden's plain speaking will earn him little credit from those determined to paint the firm as a pantomime villain.
I'm at the end of it now, there's a way in which this whole decade has felt like a pantomime routine.
Something heartening happened as we prepared to see the Senate complete its pantomime of a trial and acquit President Donald Trump.
So in a way, he is part of the hypernormal situation because it's a politics of pantomime locked together with its critics.
The Tory party is so demented that some members are rallying behind Jacob Rees-Mogg, a pantomime toff, to succeed Theresa May.
He delivered 90 minutes of increasingly exaggerated pantomime, announcing the presence of someone who is restless, impassioned, emphatic and at times belligerent.
Cody (née Rhodes) pulled off a perfect, capsule-sized portrayal as a pantomime villain versus the wholesome babyface athleticism of Kota Ibushi.
And he got the crowd clapping along with his impersonation of Gene Kelly in "Singin' in the Rain," complete with pantomime umbrella.
"Move the tables and chairs out of the way," Rushing suggests, before you play "Yes, Let's," which helps develop your pantomime skills.
So nobody objected when Alexander Zickler, the beneficiary of Alonso's generosity, raced over to thank him, with pantomime ostentation, for the assist.
But this adaptation of the classic JM Barrie children&aposs story "Peter Pan" was criticised for its simplified plot and pantomime performances.
But beneath the pantomime and theater, serious ideas were at work, including musings on self-expression, hedonism and the right to freedom.
This unprecedented retrospective positions Rejlander as a showman whose romantic and professional partnership with pantomime actress Mary Bull yielded several thriving commercial studios.
Strangely enough, it covered even pantomime, but not an individual dance move as we've culturally come to understand it in the ensuing decades.
So, in other words, it's a warning shot to the Commission not to try to make the review a pantomime, tick-box exercise.
In the 1990s and early 2000s Euroscepticism was confined to the fringes of the Conservative Party; UKIP was dismissed as a political pantomime.
As a holding tank of its own, Climats Artificiels contains a rather pleasurable pantomime sensibility based on manipulations of the miniaturization of landscape.
In the video for "A 1000 Times," they not only pantomime playing the song, but also enlist their dads to do the same.
"Uncle Otto" is a pantomime strip in the tradition of "The Little King" by Otto Soglow, while "Harry Karry" is an adventure comic.
Paulette laughed, seeing man and man's best friend approach, and while Robert could recognize the bullshit sitcom pantomime, he still performed his part.
When Whitney's younger sister Ashley got married, Dafoe pointed to the ring on her finger to pantomime the happy news to her son.
But in Schumann's most operatic scene, in which Gretchen prays in church, plagued by guilt, a pantomime of props tells the full story.
No thought or act can be hidden from him, forcing Hazel's experience of the present into a brilliant pantomime of the curated self.
Enter 35 looks referencing the designer's interests including old Hollywood, Paul Gaugin's paintings, and the Pierrots, pantomime characters from the late seventeenth-century.
"Not only did Jones threaten and pantomime shooting Robert Mueller, the reason he did is because he said Mueller's a 'demon,'" Carusone said.
The pantomime performances took place during WWII, a period when Elizabeth and Margaret largely lived at Royal Lodge on the grounds of Windsor Castle.
The preteens had emerged from a matinee performance of the pantomime, a quintessentially British strain of musical theater mercifully confined to the holiday season.
FOR more than a decade Elliott Management, the hedge fund led by Paul Singer, was the pantomime villain in Argentina's dispute with its bondholders.
" Other attacks included an offensive pantomime of Maza's voice in which Crowder pretended to eat chips and exclaimed "just can't eat one, like dicks.
Their pantomime mimicry is precise; Claire dons a wig and the appropriate mannerisms while flouncing around the stage in a voluptuous Alexander McQueen gown.
"At the age of 5, I was taken to see a pantomime, which I think was called 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears,'" he said.
The pantomime of holding advisory votes on pay should end, for example; if investors strike down pay policies, firms should be bound to respond.
First, because I am interested in how now-neglected but influential parts of the entertainment fabric, like vaudeville and pantomime, have survived and evolved.
The defense, meanwhile, are still heavily dependent on pantomime villain Pepe who is now 35 and playing in Turkey rather than at Real Madrid.
Conceptual artists have a reputation for being cerebral and theory-laden, but Magid comes off as curious, self-deprecating, quick to laugh and pantomime.
Though bosses have tired of this kind of pantomime, particularly after Mr Trump's equivocations over white-supremacist protests in Virginia last summer, they remain bullish.
Director James Whale used expressive cinematography, Karloff's gift for pantomime, and an original approach to fight sequences to inspire a lasting, haunting sense of fear.
He goes through an interview process that is a pantomime (everyone is hired), then a factory medical assessment, which is even more comical and absurd.
It was close to pantomime, heavily stylized and difficult to decipher, a strange antithesis of the almost anarchically naturalistic novel that describes its agonized creation.
" She loves how directors communicate what they need in pantomime, "how they use their hands or their faces or their hair to describe a thing.
A drawing by Otto Dix of Anita Berber, a Weimar cabaret performer, makes visible a ghostly, melancholic face beneath a pantomime smear of make-up.
When I came in, she turned in a pantomime of surprise, pitching to and fro, then jumped to the floor and took off her headphones.
" With Carrie, she's another person altogether — letting her hair down, as the cliché has it — and doing a rather bizarre pantomime of friendship. "Right. Forgot.
The act of using papier-mâché itself can be read as a pantomime of caring for such bodies: bandaging the skinned knee, wrapping the corpse.
Anyone possessed by a smartphone knows what it's like to pantomime the act of presence, to be with someone but not really be with them.
I expected part of him to move, to exhibit some kind of pantomime, but he kept me drawn to his firmly defined face and long nose.
Tanoa Sasraku's O' Pierrot uses surreal pantomime and traditional clown iconography to challenge established white British sensibilities and the agency of queer nonwhite actors within it.
More regal than ever at 81, she can speak Shakespearean verse with mellifluous intelligence; a former Merce Cunningham dancer, she can invest simple pantomime with gravitas.
" When her mother told her husband (Padma's step-father) he made her lie down on the living room divan "to demonstrate by pantomime what had happened.
Both films are under 80 minutes in runtime, so this shorthand — along with Karloff's gift for pantomime — works effectively in establishing antagonists as soon as possible.
If you say "Japanese knotweed" to a gardening enthusiast or property developer, you might be met with the sort of hiss usually reserved for pantomime villains.
Or conservative supervillains jerking liberal chains and rattling leftwing cages on mainstream tech platforms by acting out a manist, white-supremacist tantrum-pantomime in plain sight.
On Friday night in the first round, the stadium MC had noted amid all the cat-calling that the pantomime season was Christmas not in August.
This is about when Finman says he began cultivating an outrageous persona on Instagram — "a semi-satire...pantomime of myself" — to bring attention to his projects.
The pantomime tends to fall into two orders: in one, the relationship was discreetly consummated; in the other, the pathos of yearning and missing feels overwhelming.
Bautista Agut, a baseline hustler with a big serve, said he would not be bothered if the terraces treated him as something of a pantomime villain.
In came Val Kilmer, Method Man, Jim Carrey, and Tommy Lee Jones of The Fugitive fame with half his face painted purple like a budget pantomime.
I've been asking about it now for a long time as whether we should engage with this because there is a lot of pantomime to it.
Before long, high fives evolved into elaborate routines: drum lines, a phone call, famous moments in other sports, even a pantomime birth with a football baby.
Sports are the stage for human drama, one on which we gather to celebrate achievement, sacrifice and teamwork and sometimes also to pantomime, oversimplify and commercialize.
The other presidents in my lifetime have at least done a pantomime of the qualities that we try to instill in children: humility, honesty, magnanimity, generosity.
They're locked into describing the pantomime politics and they're not looking to what Mr Michael Pence is really up to, and what's really happening outside the theatre.
Andrew McConnell Stott, the author of "The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi," says Grimaldi is credited with adding garish makeup and exaggerated slapstick to the clown's repertoire.
" At times, the rally had a pantomime feel as Mr. Farage named members of Parliament, waiting for the crowd to boo or, in one case, yell "traitor!
In particular, the exhibition highlights five performers, including Evanion himself, magician John Nevil Maskelyne, circus showman George Sanger, hypnotist Annie De Montford, and pantomime star Dan Leno.
Indeed, the AI pantomime was apparently realistic enough to convince some of the genuine humans on the other end of the line that they were speaking to people.
Their poor design reminds me of Britain's House of Commons, where the benches face each other in opposition and debate between serious politicians is poisoned by pantomime boos.
I begrudged having to return to the official plot which, depending on the scene, is a pantomime of Oliver Stone, Christopher Nolan, Paul Greengrass, or Paul W.S. Anderson.
This is a bland way of saying she will allow the Commander to rape her in a grotesque yet impersonal ritual, a kind of pantomime that allows Mrs.
Lear participated in the classic Victorian pantomime in which an older man supported or befriended or mentored younger ones, often handsome and foreign-born fellow-pilgrims and guides.
Neil Patrick Harris couldn't be more in his element as the preening and venomous Count Olaf, who, with pantomime and eye-rolling disguises, torments the three Baudelaire orphans.
True crime TV that moves this far away from documentary, and feels almost like pantomime, is great for keeping insomniacs entertained but swings death like a blunt instrument.
The atmosphere was more akin to a soccer match as the day's fourballs began with a smattering of partisan pantomime boos greeting the announcement of the American team.
If mercy droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven, derision spurts up as though from a pantomime geyser, drenching the braggart and the fool in the foulest ordures.
As a teen, the then-Princess Elizabeth loved to entertain her family and friends – and, alongside her younger sister Princess Margaret, would take part in pantomime shows at Christmastime.
This article originally appeared on VICE Sports UK. While the language of football most often borrows from pantomime, points deductions are more in keeping with the genre of melodrama.
Besides letting Johnson act out his own Churchillian fantasy and pander to the patriotic fever-dreams of Brexiteers, the prime minister's pantomime pivot into military general serves another purpose.
Instead of a pantomime of sober concern, Pence and the Trump administration more broadly could address the real issue -- the need for massive reforms in policing and criminal justice.
As with the farcical oversight process—during which officials like Director of National Intelligence James Clapper can lie under oath, without consequence—these events pantomime democratic access and accountability.
She's a larger-than-life fertility figure, a pantomime dame (drag character) whose crinoline hides multiple children — they dance their way out from under it and then back in.
Particularly aggravating, Ms. Carter recalled, were the naps her mother took without fail every afternoon from 1:00 to 3:00, forcing the other residents into silence and pantomime.
"In essence, football is a carnivalesque or even pantomime experience," Ben said as a cocky little shit of a player walked painfully slowly towards the ball to aggravate the crowd.
The United States premiere of this show features Mr. Manley and Mr. Cannon as down-on-their-luck brothers who play the front and back ends of a pantomime horse.
Instead his company continues to groom users into accepting being creeped on by offering pantomime settings that boil down to little more than privacy theatre — if they even realize they're there.
It does not appear to be particularly bloody, though video of CPAC attendees using the game's motion-tracking controls in a vague pantomime of actual shooting probably did not help, either.
The contrast between the two is sharpest following a bullying incident in the school cafeteria, when two jocks dressed like Simon and Ethan jump on a table and pantomime anal sex.
Mrs May's former aides moan that figures such as Philip Hammond, her chancellor, hamstrung the prime minister by refusing to play along with her pantomime preparations for a no-deal Brexit.
Having spent the afternoon bawling at a giant at the top of a beanstalk, they were now singing Harry Nilsson's rendition of ''Without You'' — presumably the anthem of the pantomime dame.
It caused such dislocation that it is hard to see others emulating it (even the pantomime central-planners of Venezuela rowed back after announcing that they would scrap their own banknotes).
Speaking with The Telegraph, Leona said that The X Factor had slowly become a pantomime and the true essence of the show was lost between the props, hashtags and media training.
When, at the age of 31, he secured an ill-tempered move to Manchester United, he sealed his place as one of the great pantomime villains of the Premier League era.
While platforms have become practiced in dark arts PR — offering, at best, a pantomime ear to the latest data-enabled outrage that's making headlines, without ever actually changing the underlying system.
Britons' reaction to the letter was mixed, with some commenting on its folksy focus on the country's "legendary black humor," drinking tea with milk, Christmas pantomime and driving on the left.
This prospect would have horrified Yukio Mishima, a writer who thought it so important to die young and handsome that he ritually disembowelled himself after staging a pantomime "coup" attempt in 1970.
The original "Giselle," first mounted in 1841, in Paris, with dances by Jean Coralli, who probably had help from Jules Perrot, was a ballet-fantastique , full of pantomime, melodrama, and special effects.
Howard is only one of the many characters woven into "Mary Toft," and Palmer never resorts to pantomime — except, perhaps, for Nathanael St. André, the first surgeon to hotfoot it to Godalming.
On the opposite shore, Tkotko roared like a jaguar at him, then laughed uproariously, explaining in pantomime that his eyes looked as if they were going to pop out of his head.
Giants and golden geese can go about their usual business when the pantomime version of the fairy tale, by husband-and-wife theatermakers Julie Atlas Muz and Mat Fraser, finishes its run.
Though Britain prides itself on projecting pageantry and high theater in its politics, Brexit's 774 days have better resembled local pantomime: a weak cast, bad jokes, and little to entertain out-of-towners.
"Costumes were shown as the couture clients clamored for clothes," said Amy Spindler, the New York Times fashion critic, of Galliano's Dior outing, underlining a general critique of the Dior clothes as pantomime.
In the first stage production, in 1823, the nameless creature (or "——-," as he was identified in a playbill included in the Morgan show) was played by T.P. Cooke, an actor famous for pantomime, .
He tested two-performer pantomime before deciding to fashion a full-scale figure that could wordlessly engage with the unfolding plot — that could act — when brought to life by a single actor within.
For those England fans who had welcomed Smith as a pantomime villain with a chorus of boos, this was a chastening experience as the figure of fun became the star of the show.
A film crew from Sky Sports had joined Michael van Gerwen in Oldham on Friday to have him pantomime and pose in front of a green screen for a series of television spots.
If the performance seeks to create an illusion, such as a group of mimes becoming a car in a high-speed chase, or a single mime creating a wall, it can be called pantomime.
And while it may be totally fine for an individual to construct a fictional narrative that dresses up the substance of their existence, it's certainly not okay to pull anyone else into your pantomime.
The youngest of the Osmond siblings, 55, suffered a stroke on Thursday, BBC News reports, after playing Captain Hook in a pantomime performance of Peter Pan at the Birmingham Hippodrome theater in Birmingham, England.
You won't get a whole lot more insight into the plot than that—this is a total pantomime, and there's no writing save for a few dilapidated letters and numbers on formerly legible signs.
The transfers that are briefly mooted, the betting odds that suddenly plummet, the moves that collapse at the final moment: these are all crucial to the pantomime performance of the transfer window's final day.
Pantomime dominates the first half (along with that glorious growing tree), but Act II has a rousing world tour and culminates in a breathtaking pas de deux for the Sugarplum Fairy and her Cavalier.
Normally you'd reach for the instrumental version but this time of year we can all delight in some pantomime Milanese man triumphantly intoning, "I'm Mr Jekyll, you are Mr. Hyde" over and over again.
Choral declaiming, pantomime and the use of chairs to suggest most settings are also on the menu; effective as they all are, the result is a stylistic hodgepodge, whereas the book is a monolith.
"It's a beautiful setting during day and night, overlooking the open-air pantomime stage — you can literally enjoy a ballet show or a concert from your own balcony," says General Manager Iben Marburger Juul.
Competitions here generally concluded with a human sacrifice, Fabio said, doing a little pantomime of the victor having his heart ripped out and offered to the gods, his gold teeth sparking in the mist.
In April 2015, Tumblr user peter-pantomime wrote a post arguing that recent developments on the show (which we'll get to in a moment) set the stage perfectly for a new, better, girl-powered spinoff.
The mood at the party conference in Bournemouth was more pantomime than policy seminar (boos at the mention of Barack Obama were matched only by the jeers for Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament's Brexit negotiator).
" The crowd in San Diego roared "No" like the audience at a Christmas pantomime when Mrs Clinton bundled all of that into a single rhetorical question: "Do we want his finger anywhere near the button?
No one will argue that Lineker's pantomime against Dodson wasn't funny, but if that was his frustration at a little defensive ringcraft it bodes especially badly for a bout with someone of Dominick Cruz's ability.
All photos by Pete Voelker Outside the Agora Theater, two miles from the political pantomime and cable news sideshow of Cleveland's East 4th Street, around 200 people are scrummaging towards a dimly-lit lobby, sweating.
The litany of accusations against Ms. Patel — who was summoned home from a working visit to Africa — made the minister's resignation almost inevitable, turning her slow-motion departure from government into a protracted political pantomime.
Born in 1926 in Newark, New Jersey, Lewis was hitting the road as an entertainer while still in his teens, performing in burlesque houses and nightclubs as a comedian, pantomime, and even lip-sync artist.
The other night in the park, a nice old lady who didn't speak much English felt the need to pantomime her shock over the fact that my baby was so large at only eight months old.
Too often we criminally fail to check our privilege on the major stage, and last night's Brit Awards was a two hour pop culture pantomime about what happens when unchecked privileges spiral rampantly out of control.
It's more interactive but it's not better—it makes it possible to turn dialogue scenes into a ridiculous pantomime, where Gordon Freeman is crawling and jumping in circles as his companions debate the end of humanity.
Even if I just pantomime the act of holding that rifle, my hands know where to rest: index finger over the trigger well — never inside it — thumb on the selector lever, ready to switch and fire.
This may be the real tragedy of the entire, turgid affair: that while the politicians of the Brexit pantomime fight to stab each other in the back, more Britons are pushed toward even less palatable characters.
We caught a glow-in-the-dark pantomime production of "Faust" at the Black Light Theatre of Prague and it felt like being in an actual tourist trap, held hostage by the random dancing penguins onstage.
Many senators fully expect the Senate to conduct business during at least a part of August -- even if it's a pantomime for optics or plays out like last summer: in for a few days and then gone.
And with every incident, like today's pantomime, that moderates excuse by the meagreness of their criticism and their refusal to acknowledge the systematic crisis engulfing their party, their right to our pity over Labour's self-mutilation diminishes.
"It's really funny how it sort of turned into a pantomime, which is a really classic British thing, and it's really nice being in the atmosphere of recreating something that we weren't there for," says Marcus Clarke.
Mr. Perry's flamboyant, headline-grabbing alter ego Claire seems fashioned from a Crayola-box-hued more-is-more aesthetic that has referenced everything from pantomime housewives to fetish queens and even Little Bo Peep over the years.
Though past his prime dancing years by the time he arrived in the United States, Mr. Kramarevsky performed in secondary roles with New York City Ballet, characters who might help convey the story through pantomime and such.
In Martha Rosler's classic 1975 video "Semiotics of the Kitchen," the artist recites an alphabetical list of cooking paraphernalia, beginning with the apron she's wearing, and demonstrates the use of each tool with a violent, awkward pantomime.
Even as cell phones have outdated the maintenance of landlines in the home, we still pantomime the technology of archaic dialing patterns and receivers, indicating that in our mobile-technology era, there is something fundamental about payphones.
The acting style, occasionally veering into pantomime, made frank use of the artificiality of the stage: for example, to change the scene, the actors walked in a short circle, and there was a slight shift in the lighting.
Verhoeven versus Hari, it's good guy versus bad guy, white hat standing off against black hat—an old western from Tombstone, mashed up with an English style pantomime, right on cue for Xmas and the cold turkey season.
The problem that City and Liverpool have is that their rivalry — off the field — is all pettiness, closer to the pantomime squabbling of professional wrestling than the sporting test of strength of the golden age of boxing, say.
At one point, the Atwoods are given control of the camera, and conduct a strange pantomime in which Atwood sits with a brown paper bag over her head while other family members offer sentence-long characterizations of her.
Born in 1862, Fuller, like almost all American early modern dancers, had a career in popular theatre—skirt dancing, pantomime, you name it—before anyone encouraged her to move beyond that and, as a first step, go to Europe.
Shlemmer's Triadic Ballet, for example, combined his studies as a cubist painter and sculptor, his admiration for ballet and pantomime, and his understanding of theatrical lighting and costumes to comment on the effect of modernization on the human body.
While Irish people complained on Twitter about these brash bird-head-wielding English tourists coming to our country and performing their odd little colonial pantomime, sensitive Britons were eager to ask why it mattered that the men were English.
Just as we remained as Isner, no youngster himself at age 33, later choreographed a pantomime volleyball match that included a spike sans ball as Sock and Kyrgios were on their way to saving some face for Team World.
She would rather be anywhere else in the world than here, in her glacial home with the husband she loathes, putting on this sick pantomime of wellness and marital bliss; she'd even rather be back on the dreaded Peloton.
When wound up and set in motion (which only happens once a day due to the delicacy of the mechanism) the swan performs a graceful 30-second pantomime, catching a tiny silver fish from the glass pond in front of it.
And characterizing social media companies as the mocking, many-headed pantomime villain of the story transforms complex considerations into a basic emotional attack that might well be aimed at feeding votes back to a governing party intent on re-election.
"A lot of it is to do with my own interest in lower-league football and a football world that is much more real and interesting than the pantomime of the Premier League, which is a completely unreal world," says Ross.
Moore is a delight throughout the episode, but especially when she's trying to figure out how best to tell her husband what happened while also telling him about the prizes she won (her pantomime of a rotisserie is the best bit).
Jamie Bell (who starred in "Billy Elliot") is restrained and soulful as Bernie Taupin, Mr Elton's long-time lyricist and close friend, but otherwise the film is as bombastic as Mr John's songs and as garish as his pantomime costumes.
Paparazzi hanging out of the ass of pantomime cows and (allegedly) drunk director aside, Spice World is a triumph: a deliciously amateurish romp through an insane period of British cultural history, when the entire world worshipped five otherwise unremarkable English women.
As things stand, the epic melodrama that football reporting thrives upon has depreciated to the level of extremely shoddy pantomime, with the term "BREAKING" playing the role of a campy bit-part whose job it is to deliver the tawdriest lines.
At least a half-dozen ask for their photo to be a pantomime of getting superkicked and the Bucks gladly oblige, grabbing on to the table for support and positioning their heels as close as possible to each fan's chin.
Between the lines: By the standards of the old pantomime act in which Western governments criticize Saudi Arabia's appalling human rights record but more or less leave the energy-rich and strategically aligned kingdom alone, Canada's statement hardly stands out.
A video montage providing a potted history of Britain's relationship with Europe drew pantomime boos for proponents of the EU like former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, while anti-EU figures like Johnson, Farage and Margaret Thatcher were loudly cheered.
In recent years a British team, of all things, have become the pantomime villains for the French fans who line roads across the country in hope, with Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome (four times) and then Geraint Thomas all winning for Team Sky.
The Opera North production carried the subtitle "A Murder Ballad" and featured The Tiger Lillies' frontman, the singer and accordionist Martyn Jacques, growling and warbling (often in his signature falsetto) while the dramatic scenes came to life behind him in a choreographed pantomime.
He told BBC Radio Scotland that Stewart has made "a grotesque thing into a kind of pantomime," saying the singer's actions weren't sensitive or respectful towards the victims of such violence or their families, who would be "absolutely sickened" by his behavior.
She offered withering jokes about how the world's burning (true!) and also did some sort of strange pantomime around the phrase "wig snatched," as if she hadn't spent a good chunk of the press cycle around Witness literally apologizing for cultural appropriation.
Of the many paradigms that his candidacy has exploded and pieties it has torched, few stand out like the pantomime of erotic sobriety that other politicians were routinely asked to perform, the garb of traditional, conventional morality that they were required to don.
As part of a deal to establish formal relations with China in 1979, the US agreed to pantomime Beijing's "One China" policy, while also maintaining a robust trade relationship with the island that includes more than $25 billion in arms sales since then.
And then it's time to switch gears again, as the cast takes over a traditional stage to act out the titular story in an old-fashioned, broadly comic style that nods toward pantomime and vaudeville but lands like a sluggish children's show.
"You hear the chords; you hear the dat dat dat dat dat dat, duh and you just know that it's exciting," said Fred Seid, a New York City resident of more than 30 years, pausing to pantomime the opening of both shows.
While O'Neill was working on the play, he was considerably influenced by the argument made by the legendary stage designer Gordon Craig, in his book "The Theatre Advancing," that, in doing away with masks, pantomime, and dance, the theatre had lost its magic.
The Moon People — their music based around elemental fifths, scales and processes of call and response — dance an elaborate pantomime, a choreographed welcome under the gaze of their queen, Ieoaoa (Iwona Sobotka), but quickly turn into a mob when faced with the astronomers.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Patrick Reed played up to his role as pantomime villain at the Presidents Cup on Friday when he made a shoveling gesture during his foursomes match in a defiant reference to his controversial bunker penalty in the Bahamas last week.
The seven-times champion enjoys too much deep-rooted affection at the All England Club to be cast as a real pantomime villain, but for once the cheers were all behind the 24-year-old local hero on the other side of the net.
And Ricky Carpenter got up, and he started doing kinda—I'm trying to describe this over the phone—but in a charades-pantomime way that you would do the Mae West, kinda one hand on the top of your head, one on your hips.
Unlike the upper-class gentleman shtick of Chris Eubank or the pantomime antics of Frank Bruno, Naseem had no desire to be accepted in Britain, and rejected the cultural norms of British sportsmanship, with its inclination towards humbleness and decent treatment of the fallen foe.
Yet if there was one figure who came to symbolize this decline, one pantomime villain into whom the great British public—or at least the media—projected all their self-loathing and contempt, it was Johnny Borrell: the white-trousered, turbo-mouthed singer of Razorlight.
Female bonobos in Congo's LuiKotale forest use specialized gestures and pantomime to convey their desire for a bit of girl-on-girl frottage, according to a report last year by Pamela Douglas and Liza Moscovice of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.
Word of the Day noun: a performance using gestures and body movements without words verb: act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only _________ The word pantomime has appeared in 37 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Dec.
Full details are available online, but note a procession of kalimbas through Central Park at dusk, a hand bell parade in the East Village in the early evening, and a mix of Baroque flute, pantomime and singalong in Sara Delano Roosevelt Park at noon.makemusicny.
During the past half-decade the businessman painted as the saga's pantomime villain has been Beny Steinmetz, a globe-trotting Israeli diamond merchant, worth billions, whose lurid battles over Simandou with Rio Tinto, one of the world's biggest mining companies, have involved volleys of accusations about bribery.
"HAMLET" without the prince—or perhaps, more aptly, a circus without its elephant, or a pantomime without its villain: without Donald Trump, the other Republican candidates essayed the odd internecine spat in their latest debate, in Des Moines, Iowa, but their hearts didn't really seem in it.
When the lights go up, we see Strauss's maids and other serving women in dingy housedresses (the costumes are by Caroline de Vivaise) sweeping the stairs and cleaning the courtyard grounds in eerie pantomime, until the first gnashing orchestral blast sets the bloody tragedy in motion.
Fans showered Gatlin with boos; British sportswriters waxed righteous about their pantomime villain ("Gatlin is a shameless fraud" was one of the milder takes); and Sebastian Coe, president of track and field's international governing body, was beside himself for having to award a medal to Gatlin.
I do not pretend to understand the world Shakira lives in, some kind of eerie space where there's always a guitar to play, ropes to pantomime bondage with, and a beat to wiggle to, but if caffeinated enough, I have no doubts I could have fun there.
When it was performed in Glasgow last summer, At Twilight included as part of its staged docudrama a creative revival of Yeats' one-act Noh-inspired play At the Hawk's Well (1916) which combined chant, verse drama, masked actors, pantomime, dance, gesture, and a musical score.
When I published "Utopia Unarmed: The Latin American Left after the Cold War" in 1992, the armed left had practically disappeared — the 1994 Zapatista movement in Mexico was a pantomime — and much of the region's progressive parties and leaders were undertaking a transition to another strategy.
For the duration of the Prelude, Kosky stages a delightful pantomime of Wagner en famille , with appearances by Cosima Wagner, the composer's second wife; Franz Liszt, her father; the German Jewish conductor Hermann Levi, who led the première of "Parsifal"; and Marke and Molly, two of Wagner's beloved dogs.
I remember trying to pretend to read it as the waiter and the Solicitor stared at me, my empty eyes gliding back and forth in pantomime, and then, when the time came, I tried to appear nonchalant and ordered the exact same thing as my father, my date.
What exactly she's laying bare in "Lou's Dream" — which is an excerpt from her longer play The Original Lou and Walter Story — isn't entirely clear, but it's a treat to experience all the elements of her style, which seems informed in equal parts by Brecht, morality plays, modern dance, and pantomime.
Ms. Fellini is more interested in presenting a parade of colorful types solely defined by outlandish traits (a stuttering Cajun photographer, the drunken "bandit queen of New Orleans") and flamboyant names (Velouria Rhapsody Todd, Aquilla Quick-Manning) that could have come from a Victorian pantomime or a hip Brooklyn preschool.
He registered surprise at first, followed by satisfaction, as he seemed to realize that their moment could also be his moment; that he could, for this one instant, hallucinate mutual respect and pantomime common cause; that he could just slough off all his sins and latch on to a spurious grace.
Published in October 2018, Moisey's The American Fraternity: An Illustrated Ritual Manual chronicles a startling pantomime of stunted, rapacious youth alongside the text of a 60-year-old "ritual book" discovered on the floor of an unnamed fraternity at University of California, Berkeley, which the artist attended for his BA and PhD degrees.
You could even still find many stage depictions of Aladdin as culturally Chinese well into the 20th century, such as in this yellowface production of a British pantomime from 1935: But the Aladdin myth also was a cultural hodgepodge, with many depictions of the story freely mixing Chinese elements with European elements.
A DJ plays a song and the cast does some kind of enactment, sometimes a dance, and at other times a pantomime or a stunt related to the lyrics of the song; for the theme from the 1997 film Titanic, the performers posed like the film's stars at the prow of the ship.
What was meant to be a glorious celebration of the departure of the sport's greatest showman turned into a condemnation of its biggest pantomime villain as Gatlin, twice banned for drug offences, rolled back the years to win a second world title 12 years after his first and 13 after claiming Olympic 100m gold.
This iteration features a handful of today's top tappers, presented by the American Tap Dance Foundation; Camille A. Brown, a smart and skillful storyteller who presents "New Second Line," inspired by Hurricane Katrina and the spirit of New Orleans; and Nadine Bommer presents her unique fusion of dance and pantomime set on a soccer field.
All heavy eyeliner, hair dye and black faux-leather jackets, Creeper fused punk rock and pantomime in a way that blew the cobwebs off rock's escapist heyday - in doing so, they charged ahead of their stale contemporaries, and brought a certain magic and fun back to rock which had been lost for a while.
As she's speaking, Este reenacts the eureka moment by impulse, launching into a strange pantomime (the universal zombie pose: arms outstretched, wrists limp, palms down; but while bouncing your shoulders and turning side to side) that the sisters giddily identify as the "I made fire" scene from the Tom Hanks movie Cast Away — a family favorite.
His supporters, bolstered by an excoriating and partial "biography" of Blair, now see the man who took Labour to three victories - and who has become a millionaire since he left office through speeches and advice to governments, some authoritarian - as the pantomime villain whose every appearance on the public stage calls forth boos and rotten fruit.
For instance, while I would not be required to pantomime working at a phantom New York Times office inside the dual-level bowling alley and entertainment complex that now occupies the site of the newspaper's 1994 operations, I would avoid catching B trains to work since they did not stop at my neighborhood subway station in 20153.
But it's a point that was underscored in a subtler way at Jil Sander, where Luke and Lucie Meier gracefully balanced pristine monochromatic tailoring and a curvaceous classicism in a silent pantomime of communion between opposites: graceful white and black dresses (pin-tucked, puffed out) and soft power jackets; swaddling dawn-sky knits and yards of swaying silken fringe.

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