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Español · México: Programa de comedia toma a la ligera la discapacidad mental de un actor
Global Voices in English » Mexico: Television Comedy Show Makes Light of Actor’s Mental Disability 2009
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Noche de comedia con el monologuista Bill Santiago.
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Rummy had no alternative but to distance himself from the policies he helped established … … Finita la comedia!
Think Progress » Rumsfeld’s Rewrite: “I Didn’t Advocate Invasion” 2005
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In addition to his acting career, Jean is a professional choreographer and dancer, with special interests in mime, movement, comedia del arte, and ballet.
Performance Program, Boston University, Obi, Romantic Circles Praxis Series 2002
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Dutch poet told the price of homely stockings to prosaic burghers, the writer of _Paradise Lost_ was speaking the language of Torquato Tasso in the country enraptured by the first sight of _la divina comedia_.
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But they never amounted to more than a Balkanian comedia del-arte.
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters Samuel Vaknin
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Ils avaient affiché qu'ils representaient _la famosa comedia_, et Embajador de si mismo, de Lope de
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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Nos aterrorizamos ante la idea de que los impulsos de la mujer, su fanatismo, su criterio cerrado, según unos, su debilidad o falta de carácter, según otros, su poca preparación o poca cultura, según otros más, hagan del derecho de sufragio una mera farsa o una comedia ridícula por la que han de entrar a tener predominio elementos o intereses privilegiados.
The Woman and the Right to Vote Rafael Palma 1906
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Fox credits it to Joe Wilson of Newcastle (c. 1840-1874), a stage-comedia
Sally Wheatley 1880
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It is a peculiar study for an abstainer to look on at a midnight carousal, with a perfectly sober head, and to be the only audience and critic at this "divina comedia" where everyone acts unwittingly.
Debts of Honor M��r J��kai 1864
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